Democrats’ Bench Thin in Georgia
Nathan Deal are up for re-election — Democrats don’t appear to have much of a bench lining up to run statewide.
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Nathan Deal are up for re-election — Democrats don’t appear to have much of a bench lining up to run statewide.
President Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney for re-election and the Republicans lost two Senate seats despite a favorable playing field.
Tom Price may mount a Senate bid.
Many Republicans have encouraged him to run for re-election.
Browbeating Republican lawmakers and moderate Senate Democrats into capitulating on higher tax rates with vague and empty promises of eventual spending cuts and budget reform is a recipe for disaster
Incoming Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Ron Wyden held out an olive branch Thursday to feuding colleagues, signaling he is open to a deal on offshore drilling revenue sharing that could end
The Senate Democratic Conference voted Wednesday to keep its leadership team intact, a little more than a week after the party made unexpected gains at the polls and expanded its majority.
Senate Republicans also voted this morning to elevate Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to be minority whip and re-elected Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as minority leader.
Tim Kaine, a Democrat, won the state’s open Senate seat. Moran, the brother of Democratic Rep. James P.
., seems to have brushed off his party’s disastrous Senate results and doubled down on his obstructionist approach.
Obama would, of course, risk losing one of Massachusetts’ Democratic-held Senate seats in a special election if Kerry joined his cabinet.
On the second day of the lame-duck session, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was already on the floor expressing frustration about the chamber’s schedule. That may not bode well for December.
But three high-level Democratic sources confirmed that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has asked Bennet to serve as the campaign chair.
In fact, every Senate Democrat who stood for re-election won, and Republicans lost GOP-held seats in Maine, Indiana and Massachusetts. The only Republican pickup came in Nebraska.
Almost three-quarters of Hispanic voters supported Obama’s re-election, with a higher percentage backing the president in some swing states such as Colorado.
An unusually personal spat between Senate Republicans and President Barack Obama over U.N. Ambassador Susan E.
Lauren Smith, who took her position less than three weeks ago, said Massachusetts had re-examined its regulations for compounding pharmacies and enacted a series of emergency regulations on Nov. 1.
Jon Tester and Claire McCaskill were re-elected. “Our money was helpful, we funded the ground, we did all that stuff, but they ran really sound, good technical campaigns,” Cecil said.
He urged House Republicans to “take the edge off” the fiscal cliff by immediately extending Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class by taking up a Senate-passed bill to do just that.