Members Say Taxes Favor Rich
Regardless of their belief that they may not be paying their fair share into federal coffers, Republicans said Obama’s Buffett Rule is an effort to score political points and help win re-election
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Regardless of their belief that they may not be paying their fair share into federal coffers, Republicans said Obama’s Buffett Rule is an effort to score political points and help win re-election
A map agreed to by the committee last week and approved by the state Senate on Monday would have made it difficult for Matheson to win re-election, though he has won in a tough district since 2000.
House and Senate candidates typically bring in lackluster hauls in the third quarter of an off year.
Scott Brown (R) delivered a stinging rebuke of partisanship and Capitol Hill gridlock on the Senate floor today that seemed squarely aimed at an election 13 months away.
Claire McCaskill’s (D-Mo.) top-tier Senate race will dominate the St. Louis airwaves because of the media market overlap between the two states.
Businessman John Brunner (R) announced his long-awaited bid for Senate in Missouri today.
Obama loyalists have held more than 1,500 similar volunteer events across Virginia since April 4, when Obama made his re-election bid official.
Manchin also will be on the ballot then for a full six-year Senate term.
“This completely changes the race,” said Republican consultant Jeff Roe, who is based in Kansas City and isn’t affiliated with any Senate candidate.
President Barack Obama missed more than 40 percent of Senate votes during a similar point in his campaign, for example.
They have boasted about raising $375,000 for Elizabeth Warren’s bid for Senate in Massachusetts, as well as $70,000 for Eric Griego in New Mexico’s 1st district.
Earlier this year, the conservative group announced Lugar would be one of its top Senate targets this cycle. The Tea Party Express today threw its support behind Mourdock.
“I’m running for the United States Senate because we can’t keep sending the same folks back to Washington and expect a different result.”
Gabrielle Giffords’ (D-Ariz.) political team have asked him to consider running for Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has pledged to bring the president’s plan up for a vote in the Senate, but it is unlikely to come to the House floor.
Almost all of the president’s initiatives ran into trouble, even with huge majorities in the House and Senate, and the jobs recovery never occurred.
is racing to complete its get-out-the-vote makeover in time to hand off to the Republican presidential nominee a fully functioning political operation prepared to wage a fair fight with Obama’s 2012 re-election
Bainter and Baker left Mike Haridopolos’ Florida Senate campaign in July, a few days before Haridopolos dropped his bid to challenge Sen. Bill Nelson (D).
Sherrod Brown, also up for re-election in 2012, said he knew the administration had been considering the location for quite some time but did not learn of the final decision until it was reported.
Alexander, 71, said in the letter that he plans to run for re-election in 2014.