Cantor Re-Emerges as Key Negotiator
Last week, the center of gravity seemed to shift to Boehner, who returned from a White House meeting Thursday seemingly positive about a deal and went so far as to speak to the Senate Republican
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Last week, the center of gravity seemed to shift to Boehner, who returned from a White House meeting Thursday seemingly positive about a deal and went so far as to speak to the Senate Republican
Joe Donnelly (D) announced he would run for Senate. Earlier this year, GOP lawmakers redrew the 2nd district to include more areas traditionally won by Republican candidates.
But they also came to send a message to Obama, whose re-election headquarters is located just a few train stops away from the hall.
Lindsey Graham is the kind of Republican whom tea party activists want to boot from the Senate, though even they think he’d be hard to oust in a primary three years from now.
Though few would call them friends, McConnell needs a tea party ally who can help him with a constituency he’ll need for re-election in 2014 as well as with an important faction of his Conference
By comparison, AT&T donors gave $77,000 to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and shelled out $36,000 to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) won’t unveil his budget to the public this week after all, aides said Thursday.
Brown faces a tough re-election in strong Democratic territory, but his prospects should be buoyed by his substantial war chest.
New Mexico state Auditor Hector Balderas announced raising more than $400,000 in the first two months since launching his Senate campaign.
State Senate President Brandon Shaffer (D) will challenge freshman Rep. Cory Gardner (R) next year in Colorado’s 4th district.
President Barack Obama has yet to respond to a request from Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for a Wednesday meeting with Senate Democrats, days after rejecting an invitation from Minority Leader
Frank Lasee is strongly considering running for the open Senate seat.
The offset recess calendars of the House and Senate claimed a casualty when the Senate scrapped its July Fourth break.
The grass-roots group plans to have a say in more than a dozen Senate races next year, but it is not ready to endorse anyone in New Mexico just yet.
Although substantive legislative activity on reform has been abandoned, activists and their Democratic allies in the House and Senate said this week they will continue to focus on moving forward
Utah Republicans will redraw his state’s map, and they could change his district easily to include more Republicans, making it more difficult for Matheson to win re-election.
Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, is planning a hearing on the amendment in response to a request this month from Sen
Peter Bondi, formerly with the Senate Banking Committee, recently moved to Chicago to serve as deputy research director for the Obama campaign.
Orrin Hatch’s (R-Utah) re-election race in 2012. One woman shouted “Grab your torches!”
Carl Levin’s (D-Mich.) re-election bid in 2008. Resolute also recently brought on Jordan Stark as vice president to manage the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.