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Obamacare fight continues on House floor — again
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters Tuesday that he’d told Trump the Senate would not consider a comprehensive health overhaul during this Congress.
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‘A victory for the women that Ruben harassed’: Former Rep. Kihuen falls five votes short in comeback
Kihuen served only one term on Capitol Hill before reports that he repeatedly sexually harassed women — including a former campaign aide — severely imperiled his chances for re-election.
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Trahan brings Uber skills to drive change in Congress
She’s in favor of ending the use of nondisclosure agreements and mandatory arbitration in cases of sexual harassment, practices some companies are re-evaluating amid the #MeToo movement.
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Republican proposes Green ‘Manhattan Project’ in lieu of Green New Deal
As the Senate conducted a vote on the Green New Deal this week, Sen. Lamar Alexander championed a Republican counterproposal that draws on the history of the production of nuclear weapons.
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Nebraska abuzz about Sen. Ben Sasse’s future
Sasse served as the president of another Nebraska institution, Midland University, and had a long and illustrious academic career before he was elected to his first term in the Senate in 2014.
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With Obamacare under siege, Democrats fire back
David Perdue, who is on the ballot in 2020, said after a Senate GOP lunch at the Capitol with Trump that Republicans were already working on what comes next.
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Hearing into 737 Max crashes will focus on FAA oversight
As an unsuccessful candidate for president in 2016 and then in an intensely competitive re-election race in 2018, Cruz received $61,025 in contributions from Boeing employees and political committees
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Mueller report isn’t changing 2020 campaign dynamics — yet
The Senate Judiciary chairman is up for re-election next year in a state Trump carried by 14 points in 2016.
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Sen. Tom Udall won’t seek a third term in 2020
Tom Udall announced Monday that he will not seek re-election in 2020, creating an open seat in a state that has swung decidedly toward the Democrats in recent years.
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Udall is retiring, but he will leave behind a weighty environmental legacy
Tom Udall departs the Senate in 2021, he will leave behind a weighty environmental legacy built with bipartisan help, progressive principles, and a clarion call to tackle climate change.
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The ABCs of the Green New Deal
Markey of Massachusetts is leading the Senate version.
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GOP Rep. writes 407-word Fox News op-ed defending McCain — doesn’t mention Trump once
counted the longtime Arizona Republican as a friend and mentor, did not explicitly mention the reason McCain’s legacy emerged in the news cycle seven months after his death: President Donald Trump has re-upped
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Expect offshore drilling to play role in next week’s Interior secretary confirmation
In a letter sent Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Charles E.
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Tips and calls to the Office of Congressional Ethics spiked last session
Since every House member running for re-election was on the ballot in November 2018, the OCE could not pass along any referrals in that time.
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Small-dollar donors could hold the balance in 2020
The tab for the 2016 House, Senate and presidential campaigns came in at $6.5 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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Senate rejects Trump’s emergency declaration on border
On this day in the Senate, no man a king, not even President Donald Trump.
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Meet the 12 GOP senators who voted to terminate Trump’s national emergency
Blunt was re-elected to a second Senate term in 2016. (He served several terms in the House before running for Senate in 2010.) [Can Republicans make up any ground in New England in 2020?]
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Ex-Sen. Joe Donnelly Goes to K Street’s Akin Gump
Joe Donnelly, the Indiana Democrat who lost his re-election bid in November, is the latest ex-lawmaker to land on K Street.
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House will have to vote on impeaching Trump, regardless of Pelosi’s opposition
Curiosity-wise unfit” — and she doesn’t believe he’ll be re-elected in 2020.
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‘Shooting with real bullets,’ Democrats change tune on impeachment vote
The Senate is not going to do that. And so what we’ll do is suck up all the air. It’ll all be about impeachment. It won’t happen. … We are likely to have to just win the election in 2020.”