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Laredo Morning Times
February 1, 2018
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a Trump ally and a sponsor of legislation that would curtail legal immigration, said cutting extended-family ... House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican and cosponsor of the Goodlatte proposal, said limiting extended-familyÃÂ ...
Chicago Sun-Times
January 31, 2018
U.S. House 6th district Democratic Primary Candidates, from left, Kelly Mazeski, Sean Casten, Becky Anderson Wilkins, Jennifer Zordani, Carole ... was the only candidate to take aim at a fellow Democrat, criticizing Mazeski for favoring Illinois' flat income tax during her campaign for the state Senate.
Roll Call
January 30, 2018
Sam Graves'political operation, he managed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign. Kristen and Kurt Liudhardt, a husband and wife team, founded The Prosper Group out of Indianapolis in 2006. Their firm has worked with President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Cruz andÃÂ ...
Politico
January 30, 2018
As potential Democratic presidential candidates in 2020, the pair might soon be asking the activists and donors who have known them their entire .... said John Walsh, Patrick's 2006 campaign manager who then served as the Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman when Warren ran for Senate in 2012.
Roll Call
January 18, 2018
Old Photos That Current Candidates Might Not Want You to See ... Texas Republican Van Taylor made an unsuccessful bid for the House in 2006, but is favored to pick up the open 3rd District seat this year. ... But he's hoping for better luck with his campaign for Nevada's other Senate seat this year.
STLtoday.com
January 8, 2018
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., speaks to media following a ceremony on Monday, May 15, 2017, at which Boeing unveiled its new T-X trainer aircraft to ... 2018 with more than $9 million in her campaign coffers after raising $11.8 million in 2017, a record in Missouri for the year before a U.S. Senate election.
Texas Tribune
January 5, 2018
(Hutchison, who left the Senate in 2013, is now U.S. ambassador to NATO.) The problem in Texas was not so much that women weren't winning – it was that they weren't running. In interviews with candidates, officeholders and campaign consultants, the most-cited reasons for the lack of female candidatesÃÂ ...
Houston Public Media
January 5, 2018
(Hutchison, who left the Senate in 2013, is now U.S. ambassador to NATO.) The problem in Texas was not so much that women weren't winning – it was that they weren't running. In interviews with candidates, officeholders and campaign consultants, the most-cited reasons for the lack of female candidatesÃÂ ...
CNN
January 3, 2018
Now, though, another widely known and controversial candidate is running under the party's banner: Joe Arpaio. It's a complication in a state that would already have been difficult for Republicans to hold. Right now, Democrats -- or independents who caucus with them -- are defending 25 seats this year,ÃÂ ...
CNN
January 3, 2018
Washington (CNN) The most interesting Senate race in 2018 might have nothing to do with whether Republicans or Democrats control the chamber after this year's midterm elections. ... Kelli Ward -- a candidate many Republicans in Washington and Arizona see as a sure-fire general election loser.
Dallas News
December 21, 2017
U.S. attorneys serve four-year terms and require confirmation by the Senate. Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz recommended Patrick to the president. Cornyn, the No. 2 Senate Republican, and Cruz applauded Patrick's confirmation in a joint news release Thursday. "Ryan Patrick's record shows aÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 18, 2017
From Texas to Illinois, Kansas to Kentucky, there are Republican districts filled with college-educated, affluent voters who appear to be abandoning their usually .... Mr. Trump won Kentucky's Sixth Congressional District handily, while Mr. Gray carried it in a losing Senate campaign the same year. But privateÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 15, 2017
At this time last year, the Democratic path to Senate control seemed impossible: Hold all of the Democratic seats, flip Arizona and Nevada, then hope for a miracle. The Democrats ... Texas remains a long shot, but the likely Democratic nominee, Beto O'Rourke, has run a vigorous and well-funded campaign.
Denton Record Chronicle
December 13, 2017
Out of the gate, the races for Denton County commissioner Precinct 4, District 64 in the Texas House, and District 30 in the Texas Senate look tough and long. ... Whoever of those four prevails in the primary election on March 6 must turn and face Democratic candidate Bryan C. Webb in November. WebbÃÂ ...
Texas Public Radio
December 12, 2017
James Jolly Clark, Democrat: Clark filed as a Democratic candidate from Austin. Joe Mumbach, Democrat: Mumbach is an electronics businessman from Houston. Campaign Facebook page. Adrian Ocegueda, Democrat: Ocegueda is an investment adviser from Dallas. Jeffrey Payne, Democrat: Payne's anÃÂ ...
Vox
December 12, 2017
For the first time since 1992, a Democrat has won a US Senate election in Alabama. It's a stunning reversal in one of the reddest states in the union, made possible not so much by the strength of the Democratic candidate but by the astonishing weakness of the Republican nominee. A glib commentatorÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 7, 2017
Instead, as his Democratic colleagues looked on, he took a parting shot at President Trump and Roy S. Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate in ... sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party,” Mr. Franken said.
PBS NewsHour
December 31, 1999
According to documents filed with the Texas Secretary of State's office, a Democratic candidate is registered to run in all of Texas' 36 congressional races ... when Democrats regained control of the House in 2006, the party fielded just 39 candidates in Texas, though it competed in 31 congressional districts,ÃÂ ...
Texas Monthly
December 22, 2017
When Harvey hit, O'Rourke, a three-term congressman from El Paso, had been in the midst of his month-long “Town Haulin' Across Texas” tour, introducing .... During this time, O'Rourke never talked politics, contorted himself to avoid the subject of his Senate campaign, and refrained from uttering the name “Ted Cruz,”à...
Dallas News
December 21, 2017
Gov. Rick Perry — now U.S. energy secretary — appointed Patrick in 2012 as a state criminal court judge. He lost an election for the bench in 2016. Before that he served as an assistant district attorney in Harris County. He graduated from South Texas College of Law in 2006.
New York Times
December 15, 2017
At this time last year, the Democratic path to Senate control seemed impossible: Hold all of the Democratic seats, flip Arizona and Nevada, then hope for a miracle. The Democrats ... Texas remains a long shot, but the likely Democratic nominee, Beto O'Rourke, has run a vigorous and well-funded campaign.
Chron.com
December 14, 2017
Ryan Patrick, a candidate the new U.S. Attorney for the Houston region and former state district judge, was reported out of committee to the Senate floor for a full ... Dan Patrick chaired Cruz's Texas campaign until Cruz withdrew from the presidential race, then immediately switched his allegiance to Trump.
Denton Record Chronicle
December 13, 2017
Out of the gate, the races for Denton County commissioner Precinct 4, District 64 in the Texas House, and District 30 in the Texas Senate look tough and long. ... Whoever of those four prevails in the primary election on March 6 must turn and face Democratic candidate Bryan C. Webb in November. WebbÃÂ ...
Vox
December 12, 2017
For the first time since 1992, a Democrat has won a US Senate election in Alabama. It's a stunning reversal in one of the reddest states in the union, made possible not so much by the strength of the Democratic candidate but by the astonishing weakness of the Republican nominee. A glib commentatorÃÂ ...
KERA News
December 8, 2017
An edgy progressive in Congress is mounting an unorthodox, uphill challenge to a conservative stalwart and Tea Party darling in the Senate. And candidates from both parties are crowding in for their shot at the whopping seven open seats in the Texas congressional delegation. The midterm elections areÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 7, 2017
Instead, as his Democratic colleagues looked on, he took a parting shot at President Trump and Roy S. Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate in ... sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party,” Mr. Franken said.
Texas Tribune
November 30, 2017
The drumbeat for Barton's exit came from local officials, including state Sen. Konni Burton, R-Colleyville, and Tarrant County GOP Chairman Tim O'Hare. Two of his Texas Republican colleagues, U.S. Reps. John Carter of Round Rock and Mike Conaway of Midland, called on Barton to resign immediately,ÃÂ ...
Virgin Islands Daily News
November 24, 2017
Al Franken plans to stay in the U.S. Senate and try to win back ... tweeted that he forcibly kissed and groped her during a 2006 USO tour. ... Menz now lives in Texas. ... Trump and Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, have been ... Black Friday discounts at MAGA store help fund Trump's campaign, ...
Huntsville Item
November 24, 2017
Sessions resigns from the Senate, after it confirms him as new President ... Strange is among several candidates filing for the Republican ... her in 2006, while still a comedian, in a skit during a USO tour overseas. ... Contact Texas Politics columnist Dave McNeely by email at davemcneely111@gmail.com.
HuffPost
November 21, 2017
Several women have alleged that Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore either sexually assaulted ... After the Republicans lost the House and Senate in the 2006 .... John Young (D-Texas) | 1976 | Re-elected, but not for long. Young was accused by a former campaign worker of forcing her to ...
RealClearPolitics
November 21, 2017
Franken already faced a Senate ethics investigation over ... Menz, 33, who now lives in Frisco, Texas, said her father's business was ... she took photos with several elected officials and political candidates as they stopped at the booth. ... the multiple allegations facing Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, ...
HuffPost
November 16, 2017
who is considered one of the most vulnerable GOP senators facing ... to advancing GOP Senate campaigns, officially dropped Moore from a joint ... Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) initial refusal to un-endorse Moore's campaign. ... of kissing and groping her without her consent during a USO tour in December 2006.
RollingStone.com
November 10, 2017
Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore, pictured on October 31st, ... by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign. ... Moore is the Republican candidate to fill the seat vacated by now ... Sharia law right now in our country" and wrote in 2006 that Rep. ... Texas Sen.
TIME
October 26, 2017
Jeff Flake Won't Endorse GOP Senate Candidate Roy Moore ... In 2006, Moore called out Rep. ... Party in his speech, is the only GOP Senator to speak out against Moore, who recently received endorsements from Texas Sen.
Beaumont Enterprise
October 12, 2017
28, 2006, file photo, David V. Aguilar, U.S. Customs and Border ... on Capitol Hill before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on using the ... Agents in Texas recently finished a 30-day trial of the camera-toting, ... general counsel for The Campaign Legal Center, a watchdog group in Washington.
Texas Tribune
October 11, 2017
Texas nominee for federal court at odds with Trump on birthright citizenship ... again in the Green Bag in 2006; for the Register in 2007; the Wall Street Journal and ... Trump, who came out during his presidential campaign against birthright ... Several other Republican candidates for president also publicly ...
Fresno Bee
October 10, 2017
Texas Republican John Cornyn, whose past immigration work has earned him ... Cornyn is now using his leverage in Senate leadership to push his party toward a ... In his 2014 re-election campaign, he energetically courted the state's ... In 2006 and 2013 immigration reform efforts, Cornyn spoke favorably ...
Texas Tribune
October 3, 2017
Don Willett has a job — he's a justice on the Texas Supreme Court. ... That federal job won't be his until the U.S. Senate says it's his. ... Court when Owen moved up, Willett won an unexpectedly close general election in 2006, with 51.05 percent of the vote. ... 11 filing deadline for Texas political candidates.
The White House (blog)
September 28, 2017
President Donald J. Trump Announces Eighth Wave of Judicial Candidates ... If confirmed, James C. Ho of Texas will serve as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. ... to U.S. Senator John Cornyn on the Senate Judiciary Committee. ... and was then elected to that position by the people of Texas in 2006 and 2012.
Memphis Daily News
September 27, 2017
But when it comes to a potential run for the U.S. Senate, he stumbles. ... he is leaving the post, Haslam would be an obvious candidate for the position. ... neither he nor Haslam will have trouble funding their own campaigns if necessary. “When I ran for the Senate in 2006, I told people that I couldn't imagine ...
PEOPLE.com
September 27, 2017
He waved a gun at an election eve campaign rally, lacked support from the ... He ran for governor of Alabama in 2006 and 2010, but both times failed to ... a Republican from Texas and the Senate Majority Whip, even told ...
Columbia Daily Herald
September 19, 2017
Columbia candidate for U.S. Senate receives $4M vote of confidence .... can raise and spend an unlimited amount on behalf of candidates. Ogles' campaign cannot coordinate the effort with Beaman or dictate how to ... Ted Cruz [from Texas] and Sen. ... He withdrew from a bid for the state Senate in 2006.
Politico
September 15, 2017
Campaigns ... “And we have good candidates in other states, and we're going to have more. ... to pull off a major upset in a state like Alabama, Texas or Tennessee, ... As DSCC chair in 2006, Schumer saw Corker win his seat by just 3 points. Fellow senators and campaign pros have taken to wondering ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
From Texas to Illinois, Kansas to Kentucky, there are Republican districts filled with college-educated, affluent voters who appear to be abandoning their usually .... Mr. Trump won Kentucky's Sixth Congressional District handily, while Mr. Gray carried it in a losing Senate campaign the same year. But privateÃÂ ...
Houston Chronicle
December 31, 1999
16, 2006, during the USO Sergeant Major of the Army's 2006 Hope and Freedom Tour. ... Colleagues, including fellow Democrats, urged a Senate ethics investigation. ... the experiences it's recently endured; the fact that it's in Texas, and ... a Democratic candidate for agriculture commissioner, who I met this ...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
Al Franken, D-Minn., listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on ... Tweeden, accused Franken of forcibly kissing her during a 2006 USO tour. ... Menz, 33, who now lives in Frisco, Texas, said her father's business was ... for the multiple allegations facing Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, ...
Center for Responsive Politics
September 28, 2017
... limit, stabilize short-term funding and send hurricane aid relief to Texas ... He donated to Schumer's first three Senate campaigns in 1998, 2004 ... Aside from contributions, Schumer landed face time as a guest on “The Apprentice” in 2006. ... Schumer's most trusted campaign donor is Goldman Sachs, theÃÂ ...
The White House (blog)
September 28, 2017
President Donald J. Trump Announces Eighth Wave of Judicial Candidates ... If confirmed, James C. Ho of Texas will serve as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. ... to U.S. Senator John Cornyn on the Senate Judiciary Committee. ... and was then elected to that position by the people of Texas in 2006 and 2012.
Memphis Daily News
September 27, 2017
But when it comes to a potential run for the U.S. Senate, he stumbles. ... he is leaving the post, Haslam would be an obvious candidate for the position. ... neither he nor Haslam will have trouble funding their own campaigns if necessary. “When I ran for the Senate in 2006, I told people that I couldn't imagineÃÂ ...
PEOPLE.com
September 27, 2017
People Explains: Why Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore Is So ... He waved a gun at an election eve campaign rally, lacked support from ... He ran for governor of Alabama in 2006 and 2010, but both times ... U.S. Senator John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas and the Senate Majority Whip, even toldÃÂ ...
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