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Bredesen Says He and Corker Discussed Senate Race
Democratic Senate candidate and former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said he and outgoing Republican Sen. Bob Corkerhad “numerous” conversations about the race.
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Democratic Senate candidate and former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said he and outgoing Republican Sen. Bob Corkerhad “numerous” conversations about the race.
Senate,” said Cochran, currently in his seventh term. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell praised Cochran’s leadership in a statement Monday.
starts with each one of their politically vulnerable incumbents winning re-election.
Senate Majority PAC originally made a $900,000 and is adding $500,000. A spokesman for Senate Majority PAC declined to comment on the length of the ad buy.
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But Democrats — who can block any spending legislation from passing the Senate — are largely opposed to funding the border wall without a path to citizenship for undocumented “Dreamers,” including
Kevin Cramer, who recently entered the North Dakota Senate race, leads Democratic incumbent Heidi Heitkamp by 5 points, according to a poll commissioned by the National Republican Senatorial Committee
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Senate Republicans are calling for changes to the seldom-employed section of U.S. trade law that the Trump administration used to unilaterally impose steep new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
In 1999, the Senate passed background checks for purchases at gun shows, the House refused to act. That was all the families of murdered children then got from Congress.
The organization being revived is the Senate NATO Observer Group.
McDaniel had long expressed interest in running for Senate again, but he was waiting to see what Cochran was going to do.
Rick Saccone, the GOP nominee, doesn’t have the baggage that Republican Roy Moore brought to the Alabama Senate special election last year, but he is a stark contrast to the younger, more telegenic Democrat
But Cruz, who is running for re-election, sided with PES, telling its employees on Wednesday that the RIN system is broken and needs to be fixed, and suggested capping their prices at 10 cents,
Bob Corker, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, will not run for re-election after all, sticking with his decision last fall to retire at the end of this Congress.
Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior senator, as she walked off the convention stage where she made her case for re-election in 2018.
The Missouri Democrat had $9.1 million in her re-election account at the end of 2017.
Wealth of Congress: Richer Than Ever, but Mostly at the Very Top] Three GOP senators and 30 House members (22 of them Republicans) have decided to get out of public life rather than campaign for re-election
McDaniel has been eyeing a Senate bid but has been waiting to see whether Sen. Thad Cochran, whom he came close to unseating in 2014, sticks around.
Meehan has announced he would not seek re-election.