Both Sides Gird for Tough Battle in Oregon
Round One in the highly competitive Oregon Senate race goes to Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.).
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Round One in the highly competitive Oregon Senate race goes to Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.).
Blunt later told reporters that the House and Senate should redo the farm bill in its entirety to avoid legal problems.
From the beginning of his Senate bid, 50-year-old Rep. Robert Andrews (D) has been emphasizing his energy and, more subtly, his relative youth in comparison to 84-year-old Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D).
McCain doesnÂ’t want to double up his efforts, especially since Bush will be headlining the 2008 House and Senate fundraising event.
Kennedy recalled to me how, two years after his arrival in the Senate back in 1962, “we failed with Medicare. But it passed in 1965.
“If we can’t get an agreement with Republicans to move through these votes, we’re not going to stay six or seven days to go through them,” Durbin said, referencing the time it would take to jump
Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), who was appointed to the Senate in January following the retirement of Sen. Trent Lott (R).
The farm bill faces a Senate pay-as-you-go rule violation if it is not passed before the budget resolution.
” The bill has 14 Senate co-sponsors, split between Republicans and Democrats, as well as a House companion (H.R. 3163), sponsored by Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.).
Having more Democrats in the Senate and a new White House that is expected to find a national health plan more acceptable than the Bush administration could create the perfect storm for change,
“As highly controversial as is this war and this war funding, we’re going to have to work together; otherwise, we’re going to walk away from here this week with nothing done,” Reid said on the floor
“I think we’re making progress. I don’t think we’re pure yet … [but] there’s a broad consensus that we don’t air-drop earmarks,” she said.
But when that someone is legendary Master of the Senate Lyndon B. Johnson, itÂ’s a different story.
Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.) that he will not seek re- election is a rare bit of good news for beleaguered House Republicans.
“It is a business-related litigation that doesn’t have any bearing on the campaign, so we’re not commenting on it,” Ozinga spokesman Andy Sere said.
“We do voter ID calls and stuff, and we’re not getting a sense that people have made up their minds.
.” The Staten Island lawmaker announced late Monday night that he wouldn’t run for re-election after a May 1 drunken-driving arrest that forced the revelation of an affair and an out-of-wedlock daughter
The Republicans created a big mess — and we’re not talking about policy.
And as a direct result, itÂ’s unlikely that the eight-term liberal lionheart could hold his Senate seat forever, either.
“That’s why we’re seeing so many undecideds in the [Senate] race.