Senate Leadership

Blow Delivered To Tea Party-Backed Senator

AP | Posted 12.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a supporter of Mitt Romney, won a Senate GOP leadership post Tuesday over tea party favorite Sen. Ron Johnso...

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Top GOP Senator Resigning From Leadership Post

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 11.20.2011

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WASHINGTON — Alone in a cabin in Northern Ontario last month, Sen. Lamar Alexander considered the debt limit deal Congress and President Barack ...

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Sam Stein

Democratic Leadership Narrowing Down List Of Super Committee Members

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The much-discussed "super committee," created as part of a bill to raise the nation's debt ceiling and tasked with finding $1.5 trillion...

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Fear: The Key to Health Care Reform

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jennifer Donahue

President Obama and House and Senate leadership need to use fear. They tried being nice. Trick me once, shame on you, trick me twice...

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Sam Stein

Senate GOP Assumes Franken Beat Coleman

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republican leadership in the Senate has agreed to a plan for committee assignments that assumes Al Franken will emerge as the winner of the Minnesota ...

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Sam Stein

Mitch McConnell's Senate Seat Now In Jeopardy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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While much of the media and political world has been focused on the race for the White House, another contest with leadership implications is quietly ...

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