GOP Campaign Units Join Forces
Senate and House Democrats, too, are raising substantially more money per individual this cycle.
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Senate and House Democrats, too, are raising substantially more money per individual this cycle.
“I’ve obsessively re-wired sections of our house and haven’t electrocuted myself — yet,” he said.
Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has tapped a vulnerable Republican up for re-election this year to take a coveted spot on the Finance Committee.
And that necessitates bipartisanship because it takes 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate.”
There’s an interesting theory about New Jersey voters that appears to be supported by a recent poll concerning the re-election chances of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D).
Lott announced his surprise exit from the Senate in November, just one year into his fourth term. He left the Senate to set up a new lobbying firm with former Sen.
Susan Collins (R), who is up for re-election this year and likely will face 1st district Rep. Tom Allen (D).
It is a characteristic of the most effective Members of Congress that they attract and retain (and sometimes re-attract) the best and brightest people and use them to enhance their own scope, assets
[IMGCAP(1)]Graves, who served in both the Missouri state House and state Senate, was first elected to Congress from his Northwest Missouri district in 2000, when he won an open-seat contest against
His re-election is important to regaining our Republican Majority.”
But unlike an executive order, that route would have virtually no chance of success, since neither the Democratic-controlled House nor Senate would take up such a measure.
State Senate Deputy Minority Leader Christine Radogno, based in LeMont, was once short-listed as a possible Weller successor.
a candidate that could go up against the buzz saw that is McConnell’s campaign machine — which took in $1.5 million in the third quarter of last year and at last report led Republican Senators facing re-election
It’s unclear where a Senate ethics investigation into his actions stands. Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.)
“Every single candidate, even the ones who have been in the Senate for decades, are claiming to be a change candidate, so they clearly are seeing something out there,” House Republican Conference
The Senate Finance chairman has raised $8.9 million this cycle and finished 2007 with $6.3 million in cash on hand — with minimal opposition for his re-election bid so far.
John Kerry (D), who is up for re-election for the first time since narrowly losing the presidency in 2004.
Round two, set to be unveiled in February, will focus on seats held by GOP incumbents who are seeking re-election.
Senate, which is exactly what we don’t need right now,” Jenkins said. “People ought not to use Congress as a steppingstone.
Coming into the cycle, the Republicans held 21 seats up for re- election, but the death of Sen. Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.) and the resignation of Sen.