Senate Republicans Add New Blood
Newly elected National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) said Tuesday he hopes to build a more competitive fundraising and candidate recruitment program in the Senate Republicans
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Newly elected National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) said Tuesday he hopes to build a more competitive fundraising and candidate recruitment program in the Senate Republicans
“That we’re basically set up here for a Senate contest inside the United States Senate.
John McCain (R-Ariz.) has decided to run for re-election to his Senate seat in 2010. McCain, 72, announced the decision during a meeting Tuesday evening with top ally Sen.
Beginning his remarks following the Senate DemocratsÂ’ weekly policy luncheon, Reid jokingly said the meeting may be the ConferenceÂ’s last before the new Congress begins next year.
Ted Stevens (Alaska) from the GOP Conference until after the outcome of his colleagueÂ’s re-election to another Senate term is known.
McConnell spent much of 2008 trying to serve three masters: Bush, his Conference and his own re-election campaign.
Senate Democrats backed away from a major rebuke of Sen.
In 2012, when Obama would presumably be running for re-election, there will be 24 Democratic seats up, compared with just nine for the GOP.
“We’re going to just draw the line at $25 billion already appropriated” for the auto industry, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said.
Rouse, who became ObamaÂ’s Senate chief of staff after Daschle was defeated in 2004, also helped advise the campaign and is co-chairing the transition team.
For Republicans on the Senate side, the campaign committee transition is more set. The Senate GOP voted Tuesday, as expected, to elevate Sen.
“They’re independent. They break with [their] leadership and are used to reaching across the aisle,” said Madigan, who is from Portland, Maine.
“We’re prepared to work with the White House … and Republicans in the Senate,” Hoyer said of the proposed automaker bailout.
“We’re all going to be paying close attention to that, as we would any kind of oversight,” Casey said.
Democrats, who will soon hold the House, Senate and White House for the first time since 1994, say they have learned the lessons of President Bill ClintonÂ’s first two years and are desperate not to repeat
what Obama has that Clinton didn’t have is discipline, so he’s very smart and very disciplined and he has an interesting résumé — I think it was perfect that he was here for part of just one term in the Senate
At least BradyÂ’s teaching the frosh (by example) a skill that theyÂ’re going to have to learn eventually on Capitol Hill: delegating. DeanÂ’s 60 Candles.
Republicans are bracing for a fight with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) over the breakdown of committee budgets.
The campaign committee and MenendezÂ’s Senate office declined to comment for this story.
Wyche Fowler (D) in 1992 and was instrumental in former Senate Majority Leader Bill FristÂ’s (R-Tenn.) defeat of then-Sen. Jim Sasser (D) in 1994.