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Woodward in “The Agenda,” his account of the early days of the Clinton administration, depicts the president-elect sputtering in early 1993, “You mean to tell me that the success of the program and my re-election
The missed opportunities to field better candidates in House races, and backing former lawmakers in the Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin Senate races who were all rejected as retreads.
Their decision was only made harder when, on the heels of the “Access Hollywood” scandal, Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he would focus his time on re-electing congressional Republicans, not on
With the White House and maybe even the House and Senate in Democratic control, you just might have the numbers to do it all.
Hugh Scott, the pipe-smoking Senate minority leader chimed in, “I’d say maybe 15. But it’s grim. And they’re not firm.”
[Another Way Trump Could Flunk the Electoral College] In a 2000 Senate debate, Rick Lazio angrily walked over to Hillary Clinton’s lectern and demanded that she sign a pledge.
To hear Donald Trump tell it for the last year, Senate Republicans were weak, dumb losers, and not just the ones he ran against for president. He infamously called Sen.
Toomey blazed into the Senate in 2010 as an unapologetic conservative and former president of the Club for Growth, with an A rating from the National Rifle Association.
The immediate question at the time was how the Ohio freshman senator’s reversal on gay marriage would affect his re-election chances in 2016.
In Colorado, another Senate GOP hopeful is having a different problem. Darryl Glenn has already made it through the state’s primary to challenge Sen. Michael Bennet in November.
And Marco Rubio, who just last year suggested Senate votes mean nothing, has changed his mind, too, and now wants to stay.
On the Senate side, Trump made time to settle scores , lashing out at those who haven’t or won’t support him. He called Sen.
p> [ Donald Trump Vilifies Hillary Clinton as ‘Corrupt ] When not rubbing elbows with rainmakers, he could invite experts in to teach him about American public policy so that when he re-emerges
If victims know that they will be re-victimized if they come forward, they may be tempted to stay in the shadows, leaving sexual violence rooted in place.
But with the Senate back in session Monday, reporters were impossible to avoid, especially in the Capitol during votes.
Trump now stands on the brink of winning the GOP nomination, while McCain is grinding through a dead-heat Senate race against Democratic Rep.
Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas tesifies during his 1991 hearing before Senate Judiciary.
Big, sweeping issues like immigration, criminal justice and civil rights used to occupy a year behind the scenes of the House and four weeks of floor time in the Senate.
Mike Lee, R-Utah, announced a new project to re-invigorate the first branch of government. “The premise of the Article I Project is simple,” he explained in a statement .