Hands-On McConnell Helps Round Out NRSC
As a senior Senate aide with campaign experience, Ruckert’s backers in the GOP conference were numerous.
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As a senior Senate aide with campaign experience, Ruckert’s backers in the GOP conference were numerous.
Newly re-elected, Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio seems willing to pass bills — against the “Hastert rule” — with less than majority support from his caucus.
Salmon re-enters the House this year with Texas Republican Rep. Steve Stockman, who served one term after winning in 1994.
Mark Darr, a Republican, is planning a Senate bid to take on Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor, according to a report in National Journal.
Mark Udall urged his supporters to rally for his re-election campaign in an email last week.
The Senate was well-represented nonetheless. Senate Chaplain Barry C. Black offered the evening’s invocation.
Republican leaders and strategists have wracked their brains since President Barack Obama’s re-election to reckon how the party can broaden its appeal to minorities.
The first step is to re-engage online resources built up during the campaign.
“You’ve got not just the Senate race, but the governors race and three other statewide constitutional offices, the house in Minnesota, as well as several congressional seats.”
Yet it would be tough for her to be any safer, politically, as she looks toward re-election in 2014.
I am a firm believer in the advise and consent role of the Senate on important executive confirmations.
The bill passed the Senate, but a version introduced by Rep. Michael E. Capuano, D-Mass., was never taken up by the House.
“And if the Senate passes a bill, we will also take a look at that.” House Judiciary Chairman Robert W.
The president is making decisions, Pelosi is making decisions, or they are making the decisions in the Senate.”
Lautenberg has yet to announce whether he will seek re-election in 2014.
Haley appointed Republican Tim Scott to fill a Senate vacancy.
Democrats, and they concede that their own process for recruiting candidates and influencing Senate races needs refinement and improvement.
The four-term lawmaker has long eyed statewide office, but it has been unclear whether Braley would try to run for governor or Senate in 2014. Iowa Gov. Terry E.
Markey is staffing up in anticipation of a Senate special election and has hired Sarah Benzing as his campaign manager and fundraisers Colleen Coffey and Michael Pratt. Benzing ran Ohio Sen.
Each faces re-election in states where President Barack Obama and national Democrats are deeply unpopular.