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By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWith post-Labor Day campaigning for the midterm election intensifying, outside interest groups are pouring in money for television commercials to back Republicans in races for House and Senate seats. An array of Republican-oriented independent groups have been established so they can accept contributions of individuals and corporations in unlimited amounts without disclosing the source, according to the New York Times. This is what campaign finance reform advocates feared after the Supreme Court's January ruling on the Citizens United case, which lifted restrictions on direct corporate and ...
Joe Sestak Refuses Questions on Alleged White House Job Offer
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyInside the opulent Mansfield room on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) received a warm ovation Tuesday from the 58 Democratic senators who could be his new colleagues in November if he wins the Pennsylvania Senate race. But walking into the formal senators-only lunch, Sestak was dogged by reporters with questions about his past, specifically about allegations that Sestak made during his heated primary battle against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) that the White House had offered him a job in the administration to drop his bid to unseat Specter. Controversy ...
Robert Menendez, Jon Kyl and Paul Ryan on Fox News Sunday
By Bruce Drake - Politics Daily"FOX NEWS SUNDAY" FEBRUARY 28, 2010 SPEAKERS: CHRIS WALLACE, HOST SEN. ROBERT MENENDEZ, D-N.J. SEN. JOHN KYL, R-ARIZ. REP. PAUL D. RYAN, R-WIS. [*] WALLACE: I'm Chris Wallace, and this is "Fox News Sunday." The great divide over health care reform just got wider. Now the president is ready to act. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) OBAMA: I think we've got to go ahead and make some decisions and then that's what elections are for. (END VIDEO CLIP) WALLACE: we'll ask two key senators what happens next, Jon Kyl, the number two Republican, and Robert Menendez, who runs the Democrat Senate Campaign ...
Lou Dobbs for President? Maybe Senator First
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 25) -- Lou Dobbs sounded a little like a political candidate when he announced his departure from CNN a couple of weeks ago. Now he sounds a whole lot like one. While the early speculation was about whether the former TV talker would seek the presidency, his spokesman indicated on Tuesday that a run for U.S. Senate in 2012 is more likely -- as a possible steppingstone to the White House. Dobbs, best known as a crusader against illegal immigration, has his eye on the seat held by New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez, the Senate's only Hispanic member. "He realizes that to run for ...
Texting While Driving Ban Proposed in Senate
By Emily Miller - Politics DailySenate Democrats introduced a bill on Wednesday that would ban texting on a cell phone or other personal electronic device while driving. If passed, the bill would force states to enact laws against texting while driving, or risk losing federal highway funds. "iPhones, Sidekicks and Blackberries are ingenious, indispensable devices," Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in a statement. "But while they make our lives so much easier, they make driving that much harder." ...
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