D.C. Voting Rights Backers Gear Up for Bill’s Big Week
But there was some concern that a fourth seat would force Utah’s three current House Members to run in a special election, just months after they won re-election.
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But there was some concern that a fourth seat would force Utah’s three current House Members to run in a special election, just months after they won re-election.
“And the filing deadline [for the Senate race] is February.”
Jim McCrery (R) told Roll Call in January that he preferred to run for re-election to the House. Rep.
Speaking broadly, the DCCC is targeting suburban districts, which Van Hollen sees as especially ripe for Democrats, and Republican incumbents who won re-election by 10 points or less in 2006.
Tim Johnson’s (D-S.D.) slow but steady recovery from a stroke has done no apparent political damage to his 2008 re-election hopes.
[IMGCAP(1)] Before moving to Capitol Hill, Yancey worked as deputy research director for Jim Pederson’s 2006 Senate campaign. In 2004, he was an intern on Sen.
officeholder could be vulnerable if he follows through on his plans to seek re-election.
“If Rehberg were to jump into the Senate race, other Republicans would likely stay out,” Farrell said.
Given Reid’s narrow majority in the Senate, Democrats will find it all but impossible to pass a bill that goes as far as many in the party’s left wing will want.
Pat Roberts in Kansas understands that he’s going to have to work a lot harder than he’s ever worked on re-election before. The nice thing is he knows it.”
In the two-plus years since they last stood side by side in the Senate Democratic leadership, Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and the man he succeeded, former Sen.
But with Democrats in control, the NBWA, like other business groups, is in the process of re-evaluating its lobbying agenda and how the estate-tax issue, a poison pill for many Democrats, fits in.
Last year alone, domestic carmakers spent more than $20 million on their lobbying efforts, according to Senate reports.
But that is all Washington, D.C., and Jefferson’s focus since his re-election in a December runoff is all New Orleans.
“In positions like that, you’d go to one of those people — most probably someone who is not up for re-election — and say, ‘We really need you on this,’” said Thune, hinting that Snowe would likely
Mary Landrieu (D-La.), but she and her advisers think they have a winning strategy for her 2008 re-election bid — even if the Big Easy never fully regains its population.
List, the organization dedicated to electing women Democrats who support abortion rights, has bestowed its first three Congressional endorsements of the 2008 cycle on three freshmen who could face tough re-election
On the Senate side, the Senate Rules and Administration Committee is set to send to the floor an omnibus committee funding resolution that, over the course of the 110th Congress, increases committee
Having stopped calling Democratic legislators “girlie men” and having dramatically turned around his political fortunes after an epic ballot-initiative defeat in 2005, Schwarzenegger was triumphantly re-elected
Observers say the issue could resurface today and tomorrow when the House and Senate tax-writing committees hold hearings on climate change and future energy needs.