After two days of silence, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) offered his first public comments on Tom Daschle's nomination to be health and human services secretary, saying he is “eager to move forward” on the nomination. Full Story »
Nate Silver looks back at the results of Michael Steele's losing 2006 Senate race, and suggests he was a strong candidate because he did better than you might expect for a Maryland Republican, breaking 44 percent of the vote in a terrible GOP year. Full Story »
With President Obama and Senate Democrats rallying behind Tom Daschle after Friday’s revelations of back tax troubles, Republican senators faced a difficult choice—whether to support the Cabinet nomination of a former member of their exclusive club, or strike a clean shot at the new Democratic president. Full Story »
In March 2006, when Kirsten Gillibrand was just a little-known congressional candidate running her first campaign, she was given a seemingly impossible task. Rahm Emanuel, then the hard-charging chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, demanded that candidates report $500,000 in their campaign account or else risk exclusion from the committee’s Red to Blue list of preferred candidates. Full Story »
Eric Holder, President Barack Obama’s pick to become attorney general, easily won approval in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, setting up a final Senate vote on his nomination on Monday. Full Story »
The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted 17-2 in favor of Eric Holder’s nomination to be Barack Obama’s attorney general, sending the nomination to the full Senate for consideration. Full Story »
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is going up with its first ad of the 2010 election cycle against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – nearly two years before he’s up for re-election. Full Story »
One of the leading Democrats vying to succeed Rahm in Congress clashed yesterday with excitable Fox News’ anchor Geraldo Rivera in an interview about Rod Blagojevich’s impeachment trial. Full Story »
Just after November’s election, Republican senators huddled in a closed-door meeting to consider a package of rules that would have tossed Ted Stevens out of their conference, imposed term limits on party leaders and otherwise changed the way the Senate Republican Conference does business. Full Story »
Al Franken’s effort to dismiss Norm Coleman’s election lawsuit was rejected by a three-judge panel yesterday, and the Minnesota Senate trial will proceed as scheduled next Monday: Full Story »
The Senate is expected to vote Monday on Tim Geithner's nomination for Treasury Secretary, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expects him to be confirmed. Full Story »
The Senate Finance Committee approved Timothy Geithner’s nomination for Treasury secretary Thursday over the objections of several Republicans. Full Story »
With only a longshot court appeal standing in the way of Democrat Al Franken’s election to the Senate, Republicans are gritting their teeth and bracing for the arrival of a new senator whose every utterance will sound like nails on a chalkboard to them. Full Story »
Sen. Arlen Specter and other Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee may want to derail or slow down Eric Holder’s nomination to become the next attorney general, but one of their just departed colleagues is going to bat for the nominee. Full Story »
Two prominent Missouri Republicans are strongly considering running for the seat of Missouri Sen. Kit Bond, who announced Thursday that he would not run for re-election in 2010. Full Story »
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Democrat Al Franken was officially declared the winner Monday in Minnesota’s Senate race, defeating Republican Sen. Norm Coleman by 225 votes, according to the state Canvassing Board. Full Story »
Al Franken was declared the winner over Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) in the Minnesota Senate race, but the Coleman campaign has announced it will be contesting the results in a post-election challenge. Full Story »
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