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Susan Collins, R-Maine, met Saturday morning to discuss an emerging framework to raise the debt limit and re-open the government, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting.
country, but you can’t … he’d like to get rid of sequestration, to be honest with you, that’s something that isn’t going to happen,” Hatch said, before adding that he had “hope” the government could re-open
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell continued his torrential fundraising pace in the third quarter, as he fends off re-election challenges from both sides.
While Democrats have controlled both Montana Senate seats since Jon Tester’s initial victory in 2006, and the party has had no trouble winning the governorship, the state’s at-large House district has
Senate Democrats decided they wanted to send a message to Republicans Wednesday by standing on the Capitol steps and demanding the government be re-opened.
Rod Grams, a Republican who served one term each in both the House and Senate, has died of cancer. He was 65.
Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., who is running for Senate in 2014. “But I don’t know what anyone else is doing.”
Senate Republicans believe the silver lining of the government shutdown will be linking moderate Democrats up for re-election in 2014 to the more liberal leaders sticking them with politically unsavory
He raised eyebrows among some Republicans in 2010 when he announced his support for the re-election bid of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., citing concerns that Reid’s GOP opponent, Sharron
Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn may not have a serious primary rival yet in his reliably Republican home state of Texas — but he’s running campaign ads as if he did.
Today, Speaker Boehner should stop the games and let the House vote on the Senate’s clean CR so that the entire federal government can re-open within twenty-four hours.”
Mitch McConnell is guaranteed to make the news almost every day as the Senate minority leader.
A motion to instruct, while non-binding, would essentially tell conferees to take a certain position in the House-Senate conference negotiations.
Bishop won re-election by 593 votes (less than half of 1 percentage point) in 2010 and by 11,047 votes (4 points) in 2012, both times over Republican Randy Altschuler.
Senate Democrats, led by Appropriations Chairwoman Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, have pushed for a CR that would provide short-term spending for about five more weeks, through Nov. 15.
But it’s not yet unclear how successful Senate Republicans can be in swaying their intransigent colleagues.
Alan Dixon, D-Ill., who served two terms to cap off several decades in public service, is touring Washington with his new memoir, “The Gentleman from Illinois,” a rollicking re-telling of the senator’s
The idea also had been pushed by Senate conservatives such as DeMint.
McCain’s leadership PAC, Country First PAC, reported yesterday it gave a $5,000 contribution on Sept. 11 to Enzi for US Senate. The PAC had earlier given $5,000 to Enzi on July 24.
TO: Republican Colleagues FR: Eric Cantor DT: October 3, 2013 RE: Current State of Play, Strategy, and Goals I wanted to take a moment and provide an update as to how I see things developing