Meeting for the Middle
chairman, touted a recently released poll from The Wall Street Journal that suggested the disapproval of Congress is at its highest level since 1994, the year Democrats lost control of the House and Senate
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chairman, touted a recently released poll from The Wall Street Journal that suggested the disapproval of Congress is at its highest level since 1994, the year Democrats lost control of the House and Senate
The third-ranking position in the Senate will be open at the start of 2006.
According to Democratic polling conducted in November 2004, there was a 7-point gender gap in last year’s presidential contest, with 48 percent of women and 55 percent of men voting to re-elect President
Tom Davis (R-Va.) recently re-introduced the D.C. Fairness in Representation Act (D.C. FAIR Act, H.R. 2043) with Republican and Democratic co-sponsors and the support of the D.C.
Perhaps as a result of such intense scrutiny, Clinton has refused to speculate on a possible future bid for national office, insisting that she is focused on winning re-election to a second term
But the wording of the final points of the plan may have been a major stumbling block at the midday meetings, and one aide suggested that issue prompted a possible re-write that would make the document
Jane Abraham’s biggest asset in a possible Senate bid next year also appears to be her biggest liability — her husband, former Sen. Spence Abraham (R-Mich.).
Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker (R) has hired Ben Mitchell to run his 2006 Senate campaign. Corker is one of four Republicans seeking to succeed retiring Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) next year.
But he returned home and won re-election to the seat he’d been denied. He returned to Congress in 1969, but was stripped of his seniority.
“We face a president who has a huge megaphone here,” said Senate Democratic Policy Committee Chairman Byron Dorgan (N.D.).
He previously spent six years in the state House before being appointed to the Senate in 2000.
Term-limited Assemblyman Johan Klehs (D), who is frequently mentioned as a candidate for Stark’s East Bay seat some day, is considered far more likely to seek a vacant state Senate seat in 2006.
Senate Democrats and private groups are constitutionally entitled to assail them as unfit.
Of Senators up for re-election next year, Sen.
Before that, he managed Bunning’s 2004 re-election campaign and served as finance director in Bunning’s first campaign in 1998.
Sessions served as a team captain for the NRCC’s annual spring dinner, held in March, and he is serving in the same capacity for the upcoming president’s dinner, a joint House-Senate fundraiser.
Ginny Brown-Waite (R) in 2002 after re-redistricting dramatically altered the 5th district’s boundaries. Speaking of Florida. Rep.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the open-seat Senate race illustrates the two Vermonters’ complicated relationship — the contradictions of which Republicans are eager to exploit.
John McCain (R-Ariz.) has taken a central role as Senate centrists head into the final days of negotiations to avert the showdown next week on the “nuclear” option for ending judicial filibusters.
NEW YORK Cox Launches Senate Exploratory Committee Ed Cox, a New York attorney and son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon, appears likely to challenge Sen.