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But hours after that bipartisan meeting with House and Senate leaders, Trump met at the White House with the leadership of the National Rifle Association, which directly opposed both ideas.
To jump-start his 1996 re-election campaign with an early advertising blitz, Clinton straddled the ethical boundaries by offering access to the White House in exchange for six-digit checks.
Jeff Flake, after he also said he’ll leave at the end of this year instead of run for re-election.
Now, presumably, the newly re-elected leader can turn his attention to meddling in elections in other countries.
With midterm primaries already underway, the chances of major bills coming before the House or Senate before November grows smaller by the day.
Widening divide At the same time, as the Warren-Sanders progressive wing flexes its collective muscle in Democratic primaries around the country, in Washington, 12 sitting Senate Democrats, many on
Winking, Ted Cruz and the Party of Homer Simpson: Congressional Hits and Misses [jwp-video n=”1″] Most of them are running for re-election to the Senate this year, so overt presidential moves
In 1999, the Senate passed background checks for purchases at gun shows, the House refused to act. That was all the families of murdered children then got from Congress.
Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior senator, as she walked off the convention stage where she made her case for re-election in 2018.
“I’m in a tough re-election fight. The last thing I need is to split the GOP base.” “What if Trump starts attacking me on Twitter?” “Now just isn’t the time.
The Senate minority leader seemingly put the re-election interests of Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota and Indiana’s Joe Donnelly over the future of the 690,000 Dreamers registered under the Deferred Action
The Senate will be debating reauthorization of Section 702 this week, with only a last-gasp filibuster threat by Republican Rand Paul and Democrat Ron Wyden standing in the way of passage.
That unprecedented number tracks with what I’ve seen covering special elections for the House and Senate in 2017.
Members of Congress would focus on policy for 18 months and then shift their concern to re-election. Now, our democracy exists in a constant election cycle.
But his former Senate colleagues remembered him as arrogant and pugnacious.
Emails from my inbox this week from fundraising groups: “RINO Commits to Run for Re-election,” “Patricia, They’re Lying,” “A Truly Truly Disgusting Ad,” “BUSTED” and “SHOCKING.”
June 19, 1972: The Washington Post revealed that James McCord, one of the burglars arrested at the Watergate, was also providing security services to Nixon’s Committee for the Re-Election of the
Free from the party-line burden of 2018 re-election campaigns, Corker and Flake became the Capitol Hill embodiment of a Kris Kristofferson lyric: “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Prominent senators like Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker raced to announce that they were re-gifting the Weinstein money to causes such as shelters for battered women
Dear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker Paul Ryan, I know you are not in the habit of reading open letters from liberal columnists.