Immigration Overhaul Could Be ‘Done Next Year’ if Re-Elected, Obama Says
President Obama is promising to push for a major immigration overhaul in Congress in 2013 should he win re-election.
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President Obama is promising to push for a major immigration overhaul in Congress in 2013 should he win re-election.
The emergence of the open seat in Connecticut as a competitive race has given Republicans another offensive opportunity that wasn’t necessarily apparent a year ago, and even the re-election race
He fired up the friendly crowd, which had come to see Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. And he thanked the veterans on the stage with him for their service.
It’s enough to make people think Van Hollen might be positioning himself to run for something besides re-election to his own House seat.
He predicted Congress would finally agree to a “grand bargain” on the budget including new tax revenue on the wealthy and achieve a breakthrough on immigration reform next year if he’s re-elected
The number of Latinos elected to the new Congress will increase by at least three seats in the House and one seat in the Senate, a national Latino advocacy group projects.
Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), issued a statement while the debate was still going on, noting that “the Republican-led House has passed legislation to prevent
On Saturday morning in Cincinnati, a confident Brown declared his re-election contest “wouldn’t be a race” at all if outside groups didn’t spend heavily on it this year.
One year ago, Republicans had every reason to believe that they were poised to net at least four Senate seats in November and gain control of the chamber in the next Congress.
Todd Akin said today that many of the issues being debated in the Missouri Senate race are “distractions” from the topics voters most care about.
Republicans have complained that Reid scheduled the vote before the break to generate good headlines for Tester’s re-election campaign against GOP Rep. Denny Rehberg.
Here’s what cut through the ad clutter today: Indiana Senate State Treasurer Richard Mourdock earned a lot of attention this morning when he released an ad with Romney making a personal
Because the CR had already been negotiated on a bipartisan basis between the House, Senate and White House, Republican leaders resisted reopening the package or allowing any floor amendments.
“You only live once, and we only get this opportunity to re-elect the president once,” Beverly said. “This is my priority.” The lure of the campaign trail is strong on K Street.
McGovern served two terms in the House and 18 years in the Senate.
West is running for re-election against Democrat Patrick Murphy. The spot is set to air for a week with $1.5 million behind it. www.youtube.com/watch?
Some Republicans, preparing for the possibility that Obama is re-elected, are coming up with alternative scenarios to simply allowing the top tax rate to go back up to 39.6 percent.
The presidential campaign and a top-tier Senate race dominate the Cleveland airwaves and the political mind capacity of local voters.
Navarro said she doesn’t think a President Romney, facing re-election in 2016, would want “a battle with conservative Republicans” on the issue.
The presidential campaign and a top-tier Senate race dominate the Cleveland airwaves and the political mind capacity of local voters.