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Top Republicans want Loretta Lynch’s nomination to be attorney general delayed until they are in charge of the Senate — and they are insisting she divulge whether she supports the president’s plan to act
Lynch, who doesn’t have an extensive political résumé, could have an easier time getting through the Senate, especially with Schumer, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, as her sherpa.
Republicans had quite a night on Nov. 4, picking up more than a dozen House seats, reclaiming the Senate majority, knocking off Democratic governors. It was party time for the GOP.
There is more trouble for the party beneath those raw numbers; only two Democratic seats are in competitive states, while more than half a dozen Republican incumbents face re-election in states President
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., at his re-election victory party Tuesday.
Senate Majority Whip Richard J.
“From an institutional point of view, the Senate needs to be fixed.
Faleomavaega, D-A.S., was ultimately defeated in his bid for re-election.) Oversight and Government Reform — Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, vs. Michael R. Turner, R-Ohio, vs. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, vs.
By Wednesday afternoon, just hours after the GOP convincingly claimed control of the Senate and tightened its grip on the House, Pelosi was telling colleagues she would run for re-election as leader
By Wednesday afternoon , just hours after the GOP convincingly claimed control of the Senate and tightened its grip on the House, Pelosi was telling colleagues she would run for re-election as leader
After four years of gridlock and dysfunction that even the nuclear option could not much dislodge, the Republican gains in the House and the party’s trouncing takeover of the Senate are
After four years of gridlock and dysfunction that even the nuclear option could not much dislodge, the Republican gains in the House and the party’s trouncing takeover of the Senate are
The experience of setting up an office, guiding a member through a first term and surviving that first bumpy re-elect is well worth it. But how to get there?
The experience of setting up an office, guiding a member through a first term and surviving that first bumpy re-elect is well worth it. But how to get there?
At midday Wednesday, the AP hadn’t made a call on the re-election bids of Maryland Democrat John Delaney, New York Democrat Louise M.
Moderate Senate Democrat Joe Manchin III of West Virginia has no plans to switch parties following last night’s sweep to the majority for Senate Republicans — and we’re still waiting to hear from Sen.
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., doesn’t believe that any of his Senate colleagues stand much of a chance in the 2016 GOP presidential primary and he said he gives the edge to the nation
His spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment, and as of Wednesday afternoon The Associated Press had not yet called his race for re-election .
“We belong to a Commonwealth in which your diminishment is mine and your rights are also mine,” Connolly told attendees at a re-election night rally in the suburbs of Washington D.C.
Republicans had picked up the House in 2010, but a handful of self-destructing candidates hurt the party’s chances in the Senate that cycle and the next.