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Florida Politics (blog)
September 16, 2017
In the 1856 presidential election, their candidate was former Whig president ... In a 2006 editorial in The Weekly Standard, editor William Kristol attacked ... Because of the failure of Congress to pass the Dream Act, President Obama ... Florida in St. Petersburg specializing in Florida politics and elections.
Chicago Tribune
September 16, 2017
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, left, during a press conference, along with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago police SuperintendentÃÂ ...
Kane County Chronicle
September 16, 2017
Peter Roskam, R-Wheaton, in the November 2018 general election. Roskam was first elected to Congress in 2006. ... Other candidates for the Democratic nomination for Illinois' 6th Congressional District include Grace Haaf,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 6, 2017
The Supreme Court, which has never struck down an election map as a political gerrymander, will hear arguments on Oct. 3 in a caseÃÂ ...
Suburban Life Publications
September 6, 2017
Peter Roskam, R-Wheaton, in the November 2018 general election. Roskam was first elected to Congress in 2006. ... Other candidates for the Democratic nomination for Illinois' 6th Congressional District include regulatoryÃÂ ...
Bangor Daily News
August 20, 2017
Ehlers won a special election to replace Republican Rep. ... Bill Foster, D-Illinois, a former Fermilab physicist, to form what they called the three-person physics caucus. ... feet down the hall to a colleague,” Ehlers once told Congressional Quarterly. ... Robert Ney, R-Ohio, stepped down from the post in 2006.
NBCNews.com
August 19, 2017
In 2014, Blum, a businessman, captured an open seat in Congress in another ... congressman" who got lucky 2014, handily won re-election as well. ... of their 2006 wave, which netted 30 seats in the House and a new majority. .... In illinois's 12th congressional district, which covers the southern tip of theÃÂ ...
WJBD Online
August 15, 2017
... to the polls in Utah's 3rd congressional district Tuesday to determine ... August 15: The GOP primary election to decide on a nominee for ... He's a strong conservative, and I'm confident he'll be a courageous conservative in Congress!” ... registered Democrat until 2006, when he switched his registration toÃÂ ...
Northwest Herald
August 12, 2017
Bill Foster seeks Democratic nomination for 6th Congressional District ... Illinois' 6th Congressional District in the upcoming March primary election for the chance to face Rep. ... “I'm running for office to give a voice back to the people of Illinois' 6th District,” ... Roskam was first elected to Congress in 2006.
POLITICO Magazine
August 6, 2017
August 06, 2017 ... They were out to “monkey wrench” Johnson's election eve initiative, .... aides to his successor, Gerald Ford, alerted the president, Congress and ..... Edward Dirksen of Illinois, the Republican leader in the Senate. ... Nixon's advice to Haldeman was to rally congressional RepublicansÃÂ ...
The Hill
August 6, 2017
By Morgan Chalfant - 08/06/17 08:00 AM EDT 72 ... One of the targeted states was Illinois, which suffered a breach of its voter registration ... future,” Kenneth Menzel, general counsel at the Illinois State Board of Elections, told The Hill in an email. ... Still, information newly revealed by Congress shows two states and six localÃÂ ...
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
August 6, 2017
But Davis won re-election in 2016 with 60 percent of the vote. ... John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, in Illinois' 15th Congressional District, said heÃÂ ...
Crain's Chicago Business
August 5, 2017
One poll, taken less than a month before his 2006 re-election, had ... of the U.S. House and gave Illinois Senate Democrats a super-majority.
Politico
March 9, 2017
But think of it this way: If you're a House Republican who is thinking about opposing this bill, do you want Trump holding a rally in your district, questioning why you're standing in the way of his legislative agenda with an election less than two ...
Daily Kos
March 9, 2017
Gianforte, who lost a bid for governor last fall, was just chosen by the state GOP to run in the May 25 special election to replace Zinke, and he says he'll seek re-election if he wins. .... IL-13: State Sen. Andy Manar is one of the many Democrats who ...
TIME
March 8, 2017
Once elected to Congress, in 1971 she took a "people's oath" (administered by her fellow New Yorker, Shirley Chisholm) on the steps of the House after taking the official congressional oath of office. Known for her brash personality, she pushed for an ...
Roll Call
March 8, 2017
Dr. David Gill, who has run unsuccessfully for Congress five times announced Tuesday that he'll make a sixth try against Rep. Rodney Davis.
Indiana Lawyer
March 7, 2017
Brandt Hershman, R-Buck Creek, (top) and Mike Young, R-Indianapolis, (above) are among a small group of lawmakers who got law degrees after election to the General Assembly. (IL Photo/Olivia Covington). Imagine: You spend your days within the walls of ...
WACH.com
March 7, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans have released their long-awaited bill dismantling much of former President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Daily Kos
March 7, 2017
While this effort doesn't directly affect the state's congressional lines, if Republicans are futzing with legislative district borders in this part of the state, it's a sign they're worried about the race for the U.S. House too. ... won their first ...
Herald & Review
March 7, 2017
BLOOMINGTON - David Gill, a five-time congressional candidate, announced Tuesday that he plans to run again as a Democrat in the 13th Congressional District in 2018. Gill, of Bloomington, ran as a Democrat in ... Gill called off his independent bid ...
Toronto Star
March 6, 2017
A proposal in President Donald Trump's budget would gut a Great Lakes environmental protection initiative budget by 97 per cent if approved by Congress. (Evan Vucci / AP). By Star Editorial Board. Mon. ... The governors of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio ...
WTVQ
March 6, 2017
Advocates of long-discredited gay conversion therapy programs say they are heartened by the election of Donald Trump and are counting on Vice President Mike Pence and congressional Republicans to help fight off efforts to make such programs illegal. "I ...
Blog for Iowa (blog)
March 6, 2017
Utilizing popular votes alone, as happens with every other election in America at every level of government, appears impossible as only a constitutional amendment, which requires a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress, and three-fourths of the ...
CBS Chicago
March 6, 2017
CHICAGO (CBS) - Members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation are weighing in on President Trump's tweets accusing former President Obama of having Trump Tower wiretapped during the election campaign. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky says, "Everybody ...
World Socialist Web Site
March 5, 2017
Last Thursday, federal agents and the Illinois State Police raided the headquarters of Caterpillar, Inc., the world's largest earthmoving and mining equipment producer, reportedly seeking documents and digital evidence related to a criminal ...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 5, 2017
Donald Trump escalated his war with Barack Obama as a committee in Congress agreed to look into his claims that the former president and his administration abused executive powers in last year's election. ... In his latest high-stakes salvo, and as he ...
The Advocate
March 2, 2017
After the bloodletting of last year's election, most of us aren't ready for another one. But, in fewer than 20 months, America will elect a new Congress and 39 of the nation's 50 governors. The future of both parties hangs in the balance. If the ...
Patch.com
March 2, 2017
NORTHBROOK, IL - Both members of congress for Chicago's North Shore reacted swiftly Thursday to reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had contact with the Russian ambassador during the presidential campaign, despite testifying to the contraryÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 28, 2017
Republicans won a 241-194 majority over Democrats in last year's U.S. House elections, claiming more than 55 percent of the seats even though they edged Democrats by just 1 percentage point in the nationwide popular vote.
People's World
February 28, 2017
In Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University sponsored a panel Feb. 23 on what does it mean to be a ... Coleman and Pastor Emma Lozano provided sanctuary for Elvira Arellano, an undocumented worker who was swept up in a post-9/11 raid at O'Hare Airport ...
The National Memo (blog)
February 27, 2017
Saturday night voters decided to make Delaware the first state to turn a local special election into a referendum on Trump and his incompetent and extremist regime.
The New Yorker
February 27, 2017
There are a great many ways to petition the government, including with actual petitions, but, short of showing up in person, the one reputed to be the most effective is picking up the phone and calling your congressional representatives. In the weeks ...
Space Fellowship
February 26, 2017
Chris previously served as chairman or co-coordinator of such congressional lobbying events as the 2007-2010 Space Budget Blitz, the 2007 Moon-Mars Blitz, the 2006 Space Blitz, and the Great 2006 Mars Blitz. Chris co-authored space language in the 2000 ...
NBC Montana
February 26, 2017
Kara-Muzra is part of Open Russia, an organization of anti-Putin activists who calling for open elections, a free press and civil rights reforms.
Vox
February 26, 2017
In the day before the election, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz promised to leave the Democratic Party if Ellison became chair.
SILive.com
February 26, 2017
One of the first conversations about cashless tolling came up while Stephen Harrison was running for Congress against Vito Fossella back in 2006. "We were one of the first [places] to talk about it and one of the last to get it," Harrison said a laugh ...
The Wire
February 25, 2017
Despite this indictment, no investigative agency in India has seen fit to question Rao - not during the tenure of the Manmohan Singh government at the centre, which demitted office one month after the US indictment was unsealed, or since the election ...
Mexico News Daily
February 25, 2017
But Trump and Fox, president of Mexico between 2000 and 2006, are not so friendly. Fox has used social media extensively to ridicule, insult, mock and criticize the U.S.
UConn Daily Campus
February 22, 2017
Democratic presidential candidates have won the popular vote in six of the last seven elections, and yet, there's been an equal number of Republicans and Democrats in the White House since 1992.
TRUNEWS
February 22, 2017
Weeks after the House Minority leader blasted President Donald Trump for pledging to investigate voter fraud, a federal appellate court has ruled that a Peruvian immigrant can be deported from the U.S.
The Hill
February 22, 2017
In the vast majority of cases, those legislators and governors will draw new political boundaries following the 2020 census that will determine just how competitive the battle for the U.S. House of Representatives will be in the following decade ...
Being Libertarian
February 21, 2017
Charles: Shifting it a little bit more, you were the Chairman of the Party from 2006 to 2010. During that election you had 2008.
The Depaulia
February 20, 2017
Hoping to further drive the grassroots activism that has galvanized progressives in the wake of President Donald Trump's election, members of the DePaul Democrats are lending their voices to the cause, one phone call at a time. The partnering with ...
WJLA
February 19, 2017
Conspiracy theories and speculation abound as police scramble to unravel what really happened to Kim Jong Nam, aged 45 or 46, the son of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and a mistress. After falling out of favor with the family, the son lived for ...
Los Angeles Times
February 18, 2017
... will face off against probably either Lasso or Viteri in a second, decisive runoff election on April 2. Correa was elected to three terms in 2006, 2009 and 2013. A populist who earned a doctorate in economics at the University of Illinois Urbana ...
Daily Kos
February 18, 2017
Peter Roskam (IL-06) has repeatedly stonewalled constituents, as has Minnesota Rep. Erik Paulsen (MN-03). Paulsen's continued absence led one group, West Side Progressives, to do what many voters are doing: hold a "With or Without Him" event on Feb.
Roll Call
February 17, 2017
He was 93 and had lived on Capitol Hill much of the time since stepping down after 19 terms representing central Illinois. Michel epitomized the congressional Old School in nearly every way, which worked to his advantage for almost all of his four ...
Sacramento Bee
February 17, 2017
Presidential and midterm statewide elections would become California holidays under a pair of recently introduced bills, potentially adding California to the ranks of several states that have some version of election holidays. Assembly Bill 542 by ...
Liberty News Now
February 16, 2017
Weeks after the House Minority leader blasted President Donald Trump for pledging to investigate voter fraud, a federal appellate court has ruled that a Peruvian immigrant can be deported from the U.S.
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