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By Mary Winter - Politics DailyRepublican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada said Monday he will not seek re-election in 2012 because, in part, "there are consequences to sin." The two-term senator, who in 2009 admitted to having an affair with the wife of a former aide, called a 3 p.m. ET press conference in Las Vegas. With his wife and children by his side, Ensign said: "This campaign would be exceptionally ugly. I just came to the conclusion I couldn't put my family through it." Related Stories Sen. Tom Coburn Talks to Ethics Panel in John Ensign ...
Maverick Days Long Gone, McCain Among Most Conservative in Senate
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyOnetime maverick John McCain ties for the top spot as the most conservative senator in new rankings by the National Journal. Granted, he shares the billing with seven other Republican senators but it is still a far cry from his 2000 Republican presidential race when he was viewed as an unconventional alternative to George W. Bush. McCain tacked right in 2008 during his presidential campaign, and stayed there in his successful bid for reelection to the Senate in Arizona. He chose Sarah Palin as his running mate in the national campaign and insists that he's always been an across-the-board ...
Police: Package Sent to Sen. John Cornyn's Texas Office Not a Threat
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyPolice in suburban Dallas said Wednesday that a suspicious package mailed to the office of Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) was not a threat. Cornyn's 11th-floor office in the Farmers Branch area was briefly evacuated around noon after the box arrived by mail, Reuters reported. An FBI official in Dallas told CBS News that the Dallas Police Department "disrupted" the package. It contained tapes and films but no explosives. Cornyn's office said staffers were given the all-clear and returned to work a short time later. No arrests were made and the investigation is ongoing, police said. ...
Harry Reid Spikes $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill as GOP Support Dissolves
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySenate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled a $1.1 trillion spending bill from consideration Thursday night after Republicans who had earlier committed to Reid that they would vote for the measure quietly withdrew their support. The legislation, an omnibus appropriations bill, was a combination of all 12 annual spending bills that Congress usually passes individually. Although Congress sometimes combines four or five unfinished spending bills into an omnibus measure at the end of a year, months of battles between Democrats and Republicans over health care reform, unemployment benefits and other ...
GOP Senators Targeted in Six-Figure DREAM Act Ad Buy
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA coalition of labor and advocacy groups has launched a "six-figure" ad campaign aimed at Republican senators whose votes are needed to pass the DREAM Act before the current session of Congress runs out. The AFL-CIO said Tuesday that the ads will run in print publications and on radio all this week in Maine, Boston, Miami, Houston and Las Vegas. The GOP lawmakers being targeted are: Florida Sen. George LeMieux; Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe; Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown; Nevada Sen. John Ensign; and Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Most of them voted for the ...
Dems, GOP Recalibrate Strategy a Month to Election
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 2) -- Democrats have all but written off at least three Senate seats - in North Dakota, Indiana and Arkansas - and at least six House seats in Tennessee, Louisiana, New York and elsewhere as they embark on a final-weeks advertising push to minimize congressional election losses. Emboldened by their prospects, Republicans recently threw $1.3 million into West Virginia in hopes of winning a Senate seat that was long thought out of reach. It was the GOP's latest move to expand a playing field already heavily tilting its way. In the one-month dash to Election Day, both parties ...
Senate Democrats Fall Short on Campaign Money Bill
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyNo tax increase for anyone for the time being -- and no change in campaign spending laws either. Just another day at the office for the United States Senate. On Thursday, Democratic leaders, not wishing to engage in a drawn out fight on the Senate floor, postponed until after the November election any vote on what to do about the soon-to-expire Bush-era tax cuts. They lost a fight on the Senate floor, failing by a single vote to cut off debate and force a roll call on legislation that would force third parties in elections -- interest groups, businesses and labor unions -- to disclose the ...
Republicans Move to Strip Lisa Murkowski of Committee Position
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyLess than a week after Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) announced that she will mount an independent write-in campaign to keep her seat in the Senate, her fellow GOP members said they will vote to strip her of her position leading Republicans' efforts on the Senate Energy Committee. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed that Republican senators will meet Wednesday to discuss and act on Murkowski's committee assignments, which were awarded by the Republican leadership in 2009. Last week, Murkowski resigned from her leadership position as vice chair of the caucus. "There is . . . an ...
Conservative Feminists (Grizzlies or Not) Come Out Roaring
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyThank goodness for Christine O'Donnell. Now we've got someone else to obsess about beside Sarah and Gaga. In just a few days she's got the mama grizzlies of Team Sarah roaring against the male hierarchy of her own party, the Republican gurus who mocked, assailed, and gleefully and scarily shredded O'Donnell and her "nutty" candidacy. Now, of course, those same male Republican leaders are crawling to O'Donnell's side, offering her money and support (the national GOP gave her $42,000, the maximum allowable donation for its nominees) and making room for her on the big stage at the highly visible ...
Republican Reaction to Obama's Iraq Speech: Mostly Negative
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyPresident Obama's speech Tuesday night marking the end of combat operations in Iraq drew a largely -- but not universally -- negative response from Republicans. One particular sticking point for many Republicans was the president's failure to tip his cap to the apparent success in Iraq of the counterinsurgency "surge" strategy -- authored by Gen. David Petraeus and implemented by President George W. Bush over the objections of many Democrats, including then-Senators and presidential candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Sen. John McCain, who ran against Obama in the 2008 general election ...
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