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Mountain Town News
January 31, 2018
As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to bring back coal and turn back the environmental regulations of the Obama administration. ... By 2006, when the plants at Holcomb were first proposed, Tri-State had grown to include 44 member co-operatives in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska.
Chicago Tribune
January 31, 2018
Ricketts, 48, wants to help the Trump administration, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., “in any way he can,” said a source who ... Peter Roskam of Wheaton said Tuesday he will be donating a $1,465 contribution Wynn made to his campaign in 2006.
VICE News
January 19, 2018
In the 2006 midterms, the Party went on to win both the Senate and the House of Representatives. ... “I know what I need to do: I need 20 more organizers on the ground right now,” said Jane Kleeb, the Nebraska state party chair, who instituted a “Blue Bench program” that has trained over 800 grassrootsÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 15, 2017
In 2006, for instance, Democratic senators in Nebraska and North Dakota won re-election by huge margins. Even if you looked only at the most recent few rounds of House or Senate results, you would still conclude that every Democrat running for re-election in 2018 was an even-money favorite or better inÃÂ ...
Vox
December 13, 2017
Just a few months ago, practically no one would have predicted that Democrats would pick up a US Senate seat in the Alabama special election. But they did with Doug ... A divisive GOP primary ended in the controversial Moore defeating the party establishment's preferred candidate. The race was closerÃÂ ...
Lincoln Journal Star
December 11, 2017
Democratic Senate candidate Jane Raybould zeroed in on Sen. Deb Fischer on Monday, suggesting the ... Responding to Raybould's remarks, Fischer's campaign manager, Allison Bedell, said "negative attacks and zero vision are not the Nebraska way." "Nebraskans know Deb's record and her love forÃÂ ...
New York Magazine
December 1, 2017
However, Doug Jones's unexpected win in the Alabama special election upended expectations, giving the party a much wider path to the Senate, and significant momentum. Some analysts say that Trump's abysmal 48 percent approval rating in Alabama was (along with the epically terrible candidate theÃÂ ...
HuffPost
November 1, 2017
WASHINGTON ― Two days after the American Bar Association rated Leonard Steven Grasz “not qualified” to be a judge, the Senate Judiciary Committee held ... “I assume you're keenly aware that you are the first Circuit Court nominee since 2006 to receive a unanimous 'not qualified' rating from the ABA?
UPROXX
December 31, 1999
Along with Rendell came failed 2016 Senate candidate Katie McGinty; Attorney General Josh Shapiro; Auditor General Eugene DePasquale; Treasurer ..... Yet the types of candidates Emanuel wanted to bring to Washington in 2006 are the same ones today's House campaign arm is working to get elected.
ABA Journal
October 31, 2017
But this does not mean that no other potential candidates might ... candidate's completed Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire ... to the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2006, ... Deb Fischer and Ben Sasse of Nebraska had both supported Grasz's nomination to the 8th Circuit.
Daily Kos
October 19, 2017
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions ...
Observer
October 19, 2017
Phil Bredesen is considering running for the state's open Senate seat in 2018. ... red: Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Nebraska, Montana and Wyoming. ... Incidentally, 2006 was the last time Bredesen ran for office, and he won ... Republican candidate like David Vitter in Louisiana—for the GOP to lose, ...
Daily Nexus
October 18, 2017
The Senate (formerly Legislative Council) consists of 25 elected ... While some of these CSPPs were created to run candidates for one ... 1992 to 2005 and the Open People's Party (OPP) from 2006 to 2016. ... Indiana University, the University of Nebraska, the University of Iowa, the University of Miami (Flor.)Â ...
Salon
October 18, 2017
Allen ran for Senate again in 2012 but was defeated by former Virginia ... Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell look like level-headed totems of Reason and Moderation. ... Bannon isn't counting on finding credible candidates to run against ... Bannon's genius when he was Trump's campaign manager last ...
Eater
October 17, 2017
... appointees at the USDA had some Trump campaign experience, and ... Northey has served as the Iowa Secretary of Agriculture since 2006, and Ibach has served as Nebraska Secretary of Agriculture since 2005. ... the USDA's relationship with Senate and House agriculture committees, among others.
BillMoyers.com
October 17, 2017
Before he joined the Trump campaign, Bannon courted some of those ... At every Values Voter Summit since the first held in 2006, there is ... Bannon rattled off the names of sitting senators currently in his sights: Deb Fischer of Nebraska, ... Roy Moore, GOP Senate candidate and former chief justice on the ...
Nebraska Radio Network
October 17, 2017
This wraps up our five-part series produced by Nebraska Radio Network in ... series, Spray brushes aside suggestions the grassroots campaign against ... Ben Nelson won re-election to the United States Senate seat in 2006.
NET Website
October 13, 2017
... as a candidate and then in 2016 as the Republican presidential nominee. ... FRC Action, the legislative affiliate of Perkins' group, founded the annual event in 2006. ... recently won the GOP nomination for the state's open Senate seat, ... backing challengers who will take on establishment candidates and ...
Daily Kos
December 31, 1999
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions ...
Politico (blog)
September 11, 2017
At least two prominent university presidents are accusing senators of religious bias for challenging a Catholic judicial nominee over herÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
September 5, 2017
Instead, the most viable campaign to change how Americans choose their ... do so differently from the rest: Maine and Nebraska award electoral votes by ... Since its conception in 2006, the Compact has been criticized as a .... to predict with any certainty the behaviors of candidates, campaigns, parties,ÃÂ ...
Lincoln Journal Star
September 5, 2017
Enrolled as a sophomore accounting major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Morin-Chavez said ... “Watching the campaign, I really wasn't surprised at all,” ... Dave Heineman veto in 2006 ultimately allowed Morin-Chavez to attend ... Both of those bills required state senators to override a veto by Gov.
Lincoln Journal Star
August 29, 2017
... will be a candidate for his former seat in the Legislature in 2018. ... out of his 12th District seat at the end of 2014, will challenge Sen. ... Lathrop defeated Jean Stothert, who now is Omaha's mayor, in his first legislative race in 2006. ... on water resources, wind energy, Nebraska's unemployment insuranceÃÂ ...
Omaha World-Herald
August 27, 2017
Former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., came to Omaha, Nebraska, to campaign for Omaha mayoral candidateÃÂ ...
Rasmussen Reports
August 17, 2017
The Democratic bench of potential candidates was hollowed out in many ... is one that probably will be impossible to avoid in the campaign and might serve as ... Virginia gubernatorial and 2014 Senate elections, albeit Democratic victories, .... Republicans should produce a credible candidate, too, and theÃÂ ...
AllGov
August 17, 2017
Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska), senior staffer for international affairs and national security for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, senior staffer for the ... In April 2006, Esper took his first turn through the “revolving door” between ... Campaign from late June 2007 to February 2008, when it collapsed. EsperÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
August 10, 2017
Last week, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair ... party should withhold support from any candidate who isn't willing to do that. ... boiling over in April over a mayoral race in Nebraska and again last ... 2006, with a mix of liberal and moderate-to-conservative candidates winning election.
MinnPost
August 4, 2017
Midterm elections are usually bad for the party in power: 1994, 2006, 2010, and ... are in safely red places like Mississippi, Wyoming, and Nebraska. ... Klobuchar, and other senators has practical benefits for candidates, but it ... could convince a prospective candidate that they may not be able to keep up.
FiveThirtyEight
August 3, 2017
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaking at a rally for Heath Mello, a pro-life ... Dean, who headed the organization during its 2006 “50 state strategy” push to be ... to campaign this past spring for a Democratic mayoral candidate in Omaha, ... limit its support to pro-abortion rights candidates in a recent YouGov poll.
Mother Jones
July 31, 2017
told GOP leaders he would run for Senate in 2018, becoming the ... current arc began in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in 2006, when Barletta, then the city's ... And by 2016, the nativist politics that drove Hazelton and Fremont, Nebraska, and ... a possible candidate to be the next secretary of Homeland Security.
Omaha World-Herald
July 29, 2017
During an unsuccessful bid for statewide office, former State Sen. ... and controversial lawmakers the Nebraska Legislature has seen. ... nearly $19,000 in campaign contributions on mortgage payments, gold ... in 1994, U.S. Senate in 1996 and 2000, and the Legislature in 2006 — but failed each time.
Above the Law
July 26, 2017
His Senate Judiciary Committee hearing took place yesterday, and it was nothing short of a lovefest. ... Finally, for the Nebraska seat, among the three possibilities I ... also served as the Trump campaign's general election lawyer in the state) ... overseeing the selection and vetting of Ninth Circuit candidates,ÃÂ ...
America Magazine
December 31, 1999
Questions from three U.S. senators to a nominee to a federal appeals court are ... Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, suggested that the ... Ms. Feinstein's office pointed to a 2006 speech Ms. Barrett gave to graduates ... “Whether a candidate for the judiciary thinks it's prudent to answer thoseÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
December 31, 1999
They see several of their wins in the 2006 wave, for example, as the result ... Jason Altmire from Trump-friendly Western Pennsylvania, or Pennsylvania Sen. ... “Primary voters will ask candidates where they stand on the issues and ... support of Planned Parenthood during the campaign gave her hope thatÃÂ ...
CBS Local
March 26, 2017
Judge Neil Gorsuch testifies during the second day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 21, 2017 in Washington. (credit: ... Gorsuch was careful in his ...
Bengals.com
March 25, 2017
He's still a teenager somehow rooting for the Washington Senators in Dallas and a Senators' bobble head nodding on a shelf proved it.
OCRegister
March 25, 2017
Gorsuch was careful in his phrasing, rarely appeared to allow his pulse to quicken and steadfastly refused the many Democratic attempts to get him to talk about abortion, guns, campaign finance and a host of key issues in a way that might signal how he ...
Florida Politics (blog)
March 23, 2017
Alex Acosta has Senate confirmation hearing - The Florida International University Law School Dean and President Trump's nominee to head the U.S.
Omaha World-Herald
March 22, 2017
In 2006, the Legislature passed a law allowing such youngsters to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities if they graduated from Nebraska high schools. ... On Wednesday, State Sen. Tony Vargas of Omaha urged the Judiciary ...
KNSS
March 22, 2017
Health care unfolds back in Washington Jim Ryan ABC news Louisville, Kentucky a senate committee today begins questioning the president's pick.
NET Website
March 21, 2017
But the breezy questioning Gorsuch received during his 2006 confirmation hearing won't compare to the grilling he'll get from the same Senate panel starting Tuesday. The 2006 hearing for his federal judgeship lasted all of 23 minutes; just one ...
Omaha World-Herald
March 20, 2017
Longtime Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale won't run for re-election ... Gale, a former North Platte attorney, said he was announcing now so that other candidates interested in the $85,000-a-year post could get campaigns organized. ... Gale ...
Indiana Daily Student
March 19, 2017
IU Athletics Director Fred Glass fired Tom Crean as the school's head basketball coach Thursday, and now Glass will have to find someone to fill the void.
Scranton Times-Tribune
March 19, 2017
... the gas station. But it is a legal concept Gorsuch has addressed as a judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver since 2006. ... Lincoln's greatness began with his recoil from the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, which empowered residents ...
STLtoday.com
March 18, 2017
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. When Democrats question Gorsuch at his Senate confirmation hearing next week, they'll probably ask a lot about something calledÃÂ ...
Salon
March 17, 2017
If you're a Democrat, watching the GOP tie itself up in knots over its health care bill can't help but evoke a strong feeling of Schadenfreude.
Omaha Reader
March 14, 2017
It's not just the $2 billion in federal revenues Nebraska passed up for health insurance, or the 275,000 Nebraskans with pre-existing conditions that could be denied health insurance, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
McClatchy Washington Bureau
March 10, 2017
But for a man holed up in an embassy, fighting off possible prosecution, the Australian founder of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has managed to re-emerge as remarkably relevant to U.S.
Omaha World-Herald
March 8, 2017
The World proclaims itself as "Independent in Politics," but by the presidential campaign of 1888, Publisher and Editor Gilbert M. Hitchcock endorses Democrat Grover Cleveland.
Bakersfield Now
March 7, 2017
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Mushers pumped their fists and high-fived fans Monday as they set out one-by-one on the world's most famous sled dog race, a nearly 1,000-mile trek through the grueling Alaska wilderness.
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