Thad Cochran

Bicycle, Pedestrian Funding Saved with New Transportation Bill Amendment

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Video, Transportation Enhancements, Ben Cardin, Safe Routes to Schools, Harry Reid, Senate-Transportation-Bill, Bicycling, Thad Cochran, Pedestrians, Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety, Pedestrian Safety, I-35w-Bridge-Collapse, Politics News

If a transportation bill amended Thursday passes the Senate, it will likely include dedicated funding for bicycle and pedestrian paths. Bicycle and...

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Abramoff Accomplice In Hot Water Again Over Knife Incident

AP | By NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Politics News, Ann Copland, Video, Jack Abramoff, Senate, Jack Abramoff Scandal, Thad Cochran, Knife Crime, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A former aide to Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran convicted in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal must spend 15 weekends in jail after gett...

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Romney 'Inevitable?' The GOP Has Not Decided

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Video, The Party Decides, Chris Christie, 2012 Elections, Pollster Analysis, Republican Endorsements, Power Outsiders, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Thad Cochran, Republican Presidential Endorsements, Politics News

The recent endorsements of Mitt Romney by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran and others, have some questioning whether endo...

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House GOP Moves To Cut Off New Funding For TSA Body Scanners

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Senate Appropriations Committee, Tsa, Robert Aderholt, Body Scanners, House GOP, Homeland Security, Peter Kant, Thad Cochran, Airport Security, Tsa-Body-Scanners, House Republicans, Rapiscan-Systems, Rapiscan, Alabama, Gop, Jason Chaffetz, Transportation Security Administration, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON — House Republicans controlling the Transportation Security Administration's purse strings are moving to cut off new funding for thos...

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Lawmakers In Poorest States Fail Poverty Scorecard

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Carolina Economy, Thad Cochran, US Poverty, Sen. Jim DeMint, Poverty, Louisiana-Economy, Mississippi Economy, America's Poor, Poor, Poverty Scorecard, US Poverty Rate, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. poverty rate jumped to 14.3 percent in 2009 -- its highest level since 1994 -- while lawmakers in some of the poorest states co...

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Obama Solution to Stop Outsourcing - Stop Counting Jobs Outsourced (No, Seriously!)

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Sherrod Brown, Bush, Whirlpool, Budget Cuts, Olympia Snowe, Manufacturing, Jobs, Obama, Thad Cochran, Lindsey Graham, Business News

If President Obama really wants to take a bipartisan approach to creating jobs, he can do it by creating a national strategy to grow manufacturing jobs--not by refusing to count the cost of inaction.

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Thad Cochran Porks Up, Sponsors Most Defense Earmarks

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lobbyblog, Transparency, Thad Cochran, Thad Cochran Lobbyist Money, Cochran Lobbyist Money, Politics News

Sen. Thad Cochran's campaign contributors are slated to benefit from $132 million in earmarks from the Mississippi Republican, reported the Washington...

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GOP Favors Public Option for Property, Not People

David Cay Johnston | Posted 05.25.2011

The bias in favor of property over people should be ended with all deliberate speed by raising the standard for people to that of property. A public option would be one small step in that direction.

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Former Aide: Lobbyist Gifts Made "Life A Little More Fun"

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jack Abramoff, Kevin-Ring, Lobbyblog, Thad Cochran Lobbying, Thad Cochran, Ann Copeland, Business News

A former congressional staffer testified Monday that gifts received from former lobbyist Kevin Ring made "life a little easier" and "a little more fun...

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Five Current Republican Senators Voted For Sotomayor in '98

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orin Hatch, Gop, Susan Collins, Senate, Arlen Specter, Robert Bennett, President-Obama-Supreme-Court, Olympia Snowe, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Judd Gregg, Thad Cochran, Richard Lugar, Politics News

A bit of relevant history: Five Seven current Senate Republicans -- plus Arlen Specter -- voted for Sonia Sotomayor during her highly contested federa...

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GOP Senator To Specter: At Least I Don't Have To Campaign In Erie For You Anymore

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter Democrat, Thad Cochran, Politics News

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.) met briefly with his former Republican colleagues Tuesday at their weekly lunch after announcing that he was leaving the ...

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Red States Gobble Up Omnibus Earmarks

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans, Dianne Feinstein, Omnibus Spending Bill, Robert Byrd, Thad Cochran, Roger Wicker, Omnibus, Mary Landrieu, Omnibus Earmarks, Kit Bond, Senate GOP, Earmarks, Harry Reid, Richard Shelby, Senate Democrats, David Vitter, Politics News

If it's budget time, it's good to be a red state. And it's very good to be Mississippi. According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Co...

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Ex-Senate Aide Charged In Abramoff Scandal

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ann Copland, Thad Cochran, Jack Abramoff, Abramoff Scandal, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A longtime former aide to Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran has been charged in the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal, accused of accept...

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McCain & the Missiles of October

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, John McCain, Mccain Gambling Anger, Mccain Judgment, Thad Cochran, Maxwell Taylor, Cuban Missile Crisis, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, American Graffiti, Curtis LeMay, David Shoup, George Will, David Brooks, John McCain-John F. Kennedy, McCain Temper, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

Many voters are attracted to McCain's quick, "don't look back" decision-making and fancy that he will keep them secure. But would he? The experience of October 1962 strongly suggests otherwise.

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McCain Denies Roughing Up Sandinista

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Mccain Colombia, McCain Sandinista, McCain Nicaragua, McCain Temper, McCain Thad Cochran, Thad Cochran, Politics News

CARTAGENA, Colombia — John McCain denied a Republican colleague's claim that he roughed up an associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on...

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2008 Mississippi Senate (A) General Election:
Cochran (R-i) vs. Fleming (D)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2008, Active, Erik Fleming, General, Mississippi, Senate, Thad Cochran, Pollster, Politics News

MS-Sen: Cochran vs Fleming

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Max Boot: McCain Will Scare The Bejeezus Out Of Our Enemies

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Max Boot, John McCain, Thad Cochran, Politics News

One of the concerns that many observers have had over the prospect of a McCain presidency has been the Senator's reputation for being temperamental. ...

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