MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of a tight U.S. Senate race over Republican Norm Coleman, which should give Democrats the 60-seat majority they need to overcome procedural obstacles and push ...Read More
WASHINGTON | The Senate ethics committee Friday admonished Democratic Sen. Roland Burris for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama's old Senate seat from the governor who was ousted for trying to sell it.
Burris was appointed by disgraced ...Read More
Filed at 4:39 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Roland Burris, saying he had been less than candid about his gubernatorial appointment to the Senate seat previously held by President Barack Obama. In taking the ...Read More
(CBS/ AP)Updated at 12:55 p.m. ET.
A Senate ethics panel cleared Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) of any legal wrongdoing, after months of questions swirling around his appointment to the Senate seat President Obama left vacant upon taking office.
The panel, however, strong ...Read More
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate Ethics Committeeadmonished Senator Roland Burris of Illinois for giving“inconsistent” and “misleading” testimony regarding hisappointment to fill the seat vacated by President Barack Obama.
The ethics panel issued a letter of “qualifiedadmonition” that said Burris, ...Read More
WASHINGTON—The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the seat once held by Barack Obama. The committee didn't recommend any punishment.
Burris was appointed ...Read More
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary TimothyGeithner, as part of a grilling on Capitol Hill yesterday, wasasked by a Republican lawmaker to resign. It is a call he islikely to hear again and again as next year’s election campaignheats ...Read More
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who has been widely rumored to be interested in running for governor, is weighing "a real possibility" of seeking a U.S. Senate seat next year, a former Giuliani campaign aide said. Mr. Giuliani ...Read More
A millionaire power broker who was to go to trial on corruption charges alongside ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was dropped Monday from the list of defendants. The decision to remove William Cellini leaves only the former Illinois governor and his ...Read More
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, who criticizes Gov. Charlie Crist for being a fan of President Barack Obama's stimulus package, is himself a fan of one of Obama's campaign ads. Rubio's U.S. Senate campaign posted a Web ...Read More
Washington (CNN) -- Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who had said she would resign her seat to run for governor of Texas, plans to announce Saturday she will remain in the Senate as she seeks the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination, a ...Read More
AUSTIN – U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, after a year of saying she will resign her U.S. Senate seat to challenge Gov. Rick Perry next March's Republican primary, today said she will retain her seat during the election contest. Hutchison has ...Read More
AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is challenging Texas Gov. Rick Perry for his job, is planning to keep her U.S. Senate seat until after the state's March gubernatorial primary. Hutchison, a Republican, plans to tell Republican women in ...Read More
Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) has decided against running for the Senate in 2010, according to informed sources, a choice that hands Democrats another setback in their recruiting efforts against North Carolina's senior senator, Richard Burr (R). Etheridge, who served as state ...Read More
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Former presidential candidate Ron Paul's son is borrowing a page from his father's playbook for his U.S. Senate bid, leaning heavily on Internet fundraising and tapping the enthusiasm of young Republicans on college campuses. The difference this time ...Read More
The instant analysis on Senator Christopher Dodd's aggressive financial reform plan is that it's more about getting him re-elected than getting a bill through the Senate. And there's some truth there. Dodd is in the fight of his political life to ...Read More
Two of the Democrats running in the special election for US Senate issued a joint letter today calling for two statewide debates before the primary on Dec. 8.
The letter, signed by Alan Khazei and Steve Pagliuca, warns that "the voters ...Read More
The Club for Growth's Political Action Committee made it official this morning, endorsing former state lawmaker Marco Rubio in next year's Florida Senate race. That's a diss to the state's governor, Charlie Crist. Crist has the backing of top national ...Read More
The dust hasn't even settled from this week's elections,and jostling for the next one has already begun. Check out this just-unveiled ad, launched this morning by the Club for Growth against Florida's Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, who's hoping to trade ...Read More
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Former Silicon Valley executive Carly Fiorina announced Wednesday she is running for the chance to seize liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer's U.S. Senate seat, depicting the three-term Democrat as a Capitol Hill do-nothing who penned novels while jobs ...Read More
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina said Wednesday she is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer of California.
Fiorina, who is a Republican, ended months of speculation with an announcement in ...Read More
