Street Talk: Unlobbyists Give Real Lobbyists a Bad Name
Daschle, a former Senate Majority Leader, is a senior policy adviser at DLA Piper.
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Daschle, a former Senate Majority Leader, is a senior policy adviser at DLA Piper.
“The president’s narrative is that Congress can’t get anything done, so if Congress gets anything done, it hurts his narrative for re-election,” Price said.
that the playing field for Senate Democrats is more lopsided than it is this year when you look at the dearth of competitive Republican seats up.
For every sighting of a revolutionary re-enactor or conservative actress Victoria Jackson during Thursday’s events, there were hundreds of well-dressed, serious-minded college students or middle-aged
If Democrats are concerned about the lopsided Senate playing field this cycle, just wait until 2014.
Senate The Senate majority is up for grabs this cycle, but whoever takes the reins of the Senate campaign committees next year will likely have to contend with a small margin of power in the chamber.
Ron Klein (D-Fla.), a bundler for the Obama re-election campaign, told NBC News that even though his firm registered him as a lobbyist last week, he is not a lobbyist and the disclosure filed with Congress
Senate Democrats met off-campus at their private annual retreat attended by President Barack Obama.
Democrats placed blame on state Senate Republicans. “We thought we had a deal,” Wilkerson said, “but it didn’t happen, but not because of our end.”
“We intend to do the same thing,” said Senate Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.), who oversees the party’s messaging.
A Senate Democratic offer on unemployment insurance issues is in the works, and Members said they want to pick up the pace of the talks.
But Senate Democratic and Republican leaders have rebuffed those efforts to freelance on the deficit reduction issue, and as a result, the group’s efforts have been stifled.
Tester, locked in a tough re-election battle with Rep. Denny Rehberg (R), is considered to have one of the most difficult races of the 2012 cycle.
Tom Rooney has announced that he will seek re-election in the 17th district.
Two outside groups were filling Republicans’ mailboxes recently with contrasting views on candidates in Utah’s Senate race. Several Republicans, including former state Sen.
Senate Campaign Bits Former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona (D) is filling out the team that will run his campaign for Arizona’s open Senate seat.
And while staffers to Members on the conference committee wondered whether the panel is being taken seriously, the level of communication between Senate leaders and Baucus is also in question.
Michaud led state Senate President Kevin Raye (R) 55 percent to 32 percent in the poll conducted by Democratic polling firm Normington Petts.
Orrin Hatch’s conservative credentials has now taken a more aggressive approach in assisting the six-term Republican’s re-election.
’s membership bore the brunt of the Democrats’ 2010 shellacking, and so far this Congress seven Blue Dogs have announced they won’t be back or are already gone — four are retiring, one is running for Senate