Obama Plans to Take His Agenda Straight to the People
Indeed, a confident, re-elected president is expected to ask Congress to finally overcome its perpetual gridlock to act on job creation, the deficit, immigration, guns and much more.
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Indeed, a confident, re-elected president is expected to ask Congress to finally overcome its perpetual gridlock to act on job creation, the deficit, immigration, guns and much more.
Rumors of a plea deal have been swirling since shortly after Jackson was re-elected to his Chicago-area seat in November. He resigned soon after, citing ongoing health concerns.
Markey is the frontrunner in the Senate special election.
Some individuals in the tea party movement will try anything to undermine Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, even going so far as to question the Republican’s tenacity in bringing money back to Kentucky
Menendez tried to move forward with his normal agenda Thursday, holding a morning roundtable discussion with Hispanic media outlets about immigration through the Senate Democratic Hispanic Task Force
Negrete McLeod served as a field representative for Baca during his year in the state Senate.
The former six-term congressman from Maine and a one-time Senate staffer for Sen. Edmund S.
Television personality Geraldo Rivera took to his Facebook page to clarify the legal ends of his Senate candidacy contemplations.
“That’s why I’m running for the United States Senate.” Stapleton, a financial adviser, finished second last year in the seven-candidate Republican primary for governor.
Nonetheless, Republicans expect a few of their own to run for governor or Senate someday — even though state operatives don’t expect Sens. Jeff Sessions and Richard C.
But hope for finally breaking through the gridlock appears to hinge on bipartisan negotiations quietly under way in the Senate.
Democrats talked about lessons learned from the 2012 election cycle and some recently re-elected members told some war stories, another source said, declining to elaborate.
v=UmVLznif9u0 The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal third-party group, began airing an ad Tuesday in Kentucky targeting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on gun control.
Top House Democrats were delighted that Obama took a markedly liberal turn following his re-election and are counting on him to stay on offense, pressuring House Republicans to pass his agenda rather
In an appearance in the Brady Press Briefing Room, Obama once again tried to use the bully pulpit to paint the GOP into a corner, using the same fairness playbook that helped him win re-election
Mark Sanford’s re-election chances in 2006. “I got rolled,” Hobson said.
Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., said Monday he will not be a candidate in the Peach State’s Senate race next year.
He is a wily politico who has survived two Republican-led gerrymanders of his district, and he won re-election by more than 7 points in 2012 despite being a top GOP target with millions of dollars spent
Mark Begich brought in more than $300,000 in the fourth quarter, giving him almost $1 million in cash on hand to kick off his 2014 re-election campaign cycle.
has already said he plans a budget with more ambitious deficit reduction targets than he set last year in a plan that Obama and other Democrats derided during the campaign season that led to Obama’s re-election