United States Senate

PERSONAL STATEMENT: We all know that our federal government has big problems: twenty-three trillion dollars in debt, a drug epidemic, millions of illegal immigrants, a failed education system, and a collapsing and outdated highway and rail system. But these problems are actually symptoms of far more ...

South Bend, Ind. —what better way to kick off the election excitement than with politics and polish sausage? Dyngus Day festivities took place all across Michiana and folks celebrating at the St. Joseph County Republican Party say they're keeping an eye on Indiana's U.S. Senate race. Sounds and smells of ...

The Republican candidates for U.S. Senate have three debates on the schedule between now and the primary election on May 8. The first televised statewide debate is slated for April 15 to be hosted by WISH-TV Channel 8. All three GOP candidates—U.S. Reps. Luke Messer and Todd Rokita and former ...

Newly filed financial disclosures show former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen would become one of the richest members of Congress if elected to the U.S. Senate. Bredesen's disclosures include reporting between $88.9 million and $358 million in total investment assets between January 2017 and last ...

WASHINGTON — The Republican Party of Virginia has announced who will appear on its primary ballot for the U.S. Senate. The list includes three men who will participate in the GOP primary on June 12, with the winner challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine. Among those on the list is Prince ...

Bert Mizusawa, a retired major general in the Army and former adviser to President Donald Trump's campaign, failed to qualify for the Virginia GOP's U.S. Senate primary, falling short of the signature requirement, according to his campaign. Mizusawa's campaign said it came up fewer than a thousand ...

Love it or loathe it, the rhetorical flourishes were pure Corey Stewart. Combative. Bombastic. Pugnacious. “I'm going to run the most vicious, ruthless, aggressive campaign you have ever seen, and we are going to win,” he said, later throwing in “cut-throat” and “brutal” when a fan in the audience asked him ...

The Pride Fund to End Gun Violence, an LGBTQ organization that advocates for gun reform, has endorsed U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) in his re-election bid this November. Kaine, who was the Democratic vice presidential nominee two years ago, has earned the organization's backing for his longstanding ...

Blackburn is seeking the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Bob Corker. Also seeking the GOP nomination are Dr. Rolando Toyos, Williamson County businessman Darrell Lynn and perennial candidate Larry Crim. Former Gov. Phil Bredesen is the lone top-tier Democrat in ...

JEFFERSON CITY • Twenty-one candidates from four parties will officially compete in Missouri's U.S. Senate primary elections this year. Candidate filing for the state's primaries closed at 5 p.m. Tuesday, finalizing the parties' final rosters for legislative, congressional, county and other political contests ...

John Kingston, a Winchester businessman and Republican running for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, has launched a coalition of female supporters to help promote his 2018 bid, campaign officials announced Tuesday. The "Women for Kingston" coalition, which the campaign described as "a network of ...

The statue of Robert E. Lee is seen uncovered in Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. City officials removed the tarps in the morning after a judge ruled that they could not remain, citing a statute that prevents "moving or damaging of such memorials." (Zack Wajsgras/The ...

The SF Model US Senate: Front Row - Best Senator awardees Caleb Moseley and Brandon The SF Model US Senate: Front Row – Best Senator awardees Caleb Moseley and Brandon Friend; Back Row – faculty advisor Alan Beck, Kim JiHong, Pearla Richardson, Best Committee awardee Douglas ...

US Senate Candidate Wants Alleged Hunting Violations Dropped. U.S. Senate candidate Troy Downing is asking a judge to throw out several charges alleging that he did not live in Montana when he bought resident hunting licenses, claiming past accountants made errors in his tax filings. March 27, 2018 ...

It also says that at all three events, McDaniel appeared before a backdrop that had "McDaniel U.S. Senate 2018" in large letters and "Remember Mississippi" in smaller text. At the March 10 event, a representative of Remember Mississippi introduced McDaniel, solicited contributions for McDaniel's ...

Republicans have virtually opted out of California's U.S. Senate race, clearing the way for an all-Democratic contest in November. While the official list of candidates for the June 5 primary, released late Friday night by Secretary of State Alex Padilla, includes 11 Republicans among the 31 candidates ...

TALLAHASSEE — The much-anticipated clash of Florida political titans will soon be official, as Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the two-term governor flush with cash and popularity, prepares to formalize his 2018 challenge to Bill Nelson, a three-term senator and the only statewide-elected Democrat. For months ...

In August 2017, I was chosen as one of 27 juniors in high school to participate in the United States Senate Page program. I lived in Washington, D.C., and attended classes while working full-time on Capitol Hill from September 2017 until January 2018. As a page, I was given the tasks of setting up the ...

After much debate, the U.S. Senate's final vote on legislation to reform the Dodd-Frank Act, is slated for this week. There will be votes on a series of amendments and the final measure is expected to pass with bipartisan support, The Hill reports. The Senate will consider a substitute amendment from U.S. ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Republican Dean Heller has filed to run for re-election to the U.S. Senate, formally setting the stage for one of the country's highest-profile Senate races in the midterm elections. Heller is considered one of the most vulnerable Republicans running for re-election in the Senate ...

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The Montana Green Party qualified for the 2018 ballot Monday, the final day for candidates to file in Montana – and two of its candidates immediately filed to run for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House. A Libertarian, Rick Breckenridge of Dayton, also filed Monday to run in Montana's high-profile U.S. Senate ...

On the latest edition of the Politically Speaking podcast, St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies welcome Republican U.S. Senate candidate Austin Petersen to the program. Petersen is one of 10 Republicans, so far, vying for the U.S. Senate in Missouri, a field that includes Attorney ...

Rick Scott holds a small lead over incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson in a potential U.S. Senate race that could help determine control of the Senate, a poll released Monday shows. The poll of likely voters, conducted this month by the Tallahassee-based firm Clearview Research, shows Scott receiving 43.3 ...

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The Montana Green Party qualified for the 2018 ballot Monday, the final day for candidates to file in Montana – and two of its candidates immediately filed to run for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House. A Libertarian, Rick Breckenridge of Dayton, also filed Monday to run in Montana's high-profile U.S. Senate ...

On Monday, Jones formally endorsed Gibbons, a Cleveland-area banker, over Congressman Jim Renacci, R-Wadsworth, to be the GOP's nominee for U.S. Senate. Voters will decide on May 8 if they want Gibbons, Renacci or Columbus-area businesswoman Melissa Ackison to face off in November with ...

In this Feb. 16, 2018, photo, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sits behind the wheel of a tractor during a tour of Gibson's Green Acres Dairy west of Ogden. He's planning to run for U.S. Senate for Utah and will stop in Ogden on Tuesday, March 13, 2018.

Leah Vukmir and Kevin Nicholson are out to win the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate a vote at a time. ... "I am not going to bend, I'm not going to break, until we take Tammy Baldwin out of the United States Senate because she's not looking out for the future of you or your families," Nicholson said.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Republican Dean Heller has filed to run for re-election to the U.S. Senate, formally setting the stage for one of the country's highest profile Senate races in the midterm elections. Heller is considered one of the most vulnerable Republicans running for re-election in the Senate ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After coasting to victory in the Texas primaries earlier this week, the Democrats' pick to take on US Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in November campaigned in Austin Saturday. Beto O'Rourke stopped by Scholz Garten downtown for a Town Hall. Little Joe and La Familia preformed earlier and ...

After months of having a crowded Republican primary field in the U.S. Senate race, state Rep. Jim Christiana woke up Wednesday to find himself the only serious candidate standing between GOP front-runner U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta and the party's nomination. “They will have a very clear choice,” Christiana ...

One of the cannabis industry's biggest roadblocks could soon come tumbling down, as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on an amendment that would allow state-legal ganjapreneurs access to federally-backed banks. According to Forbes, Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley introduced Senate Amendment 2107 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Tariffs from President Trump could become a key issue in Tennessee's closely watched U.S. Senate race. Both of the major candidates to succeed retiring Sen. Bob Corker weighed in this week with similar responses using different language. Questions about the controversial ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will send five cabinet secretaries to a U.S. Senate hearing next week to tout its plan to spur $1.5 trillion infrastructure improvements using $200 billion in new federal funding. The heads of the Transportation, Commerce, Labor, Agriculture and Energy ...

UMN law prof and Trump critic Richard Painter wants to run for U.S. Senate. But which party? ... University of Minnesota Law School professor and frequent cable news guest Richard Painter has announced he is thinking about running for U.S. Senate. And thinking about which party he wants to represent: ...

Students from Montgomery Blair High School march down Colesville Road in support of gun reform legislation Feb. 21, 2018 in Silver Spring, Maryland. In the wake of last week's shooting in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed, the students planned to take public transportation to the U.S. Capitol ...

NASHVILLE - Fifty-six of the Tennessee House's 74-member Republican Caucus are endorsing Republican Marsha Blackburn in her U.S. Senate effort, the campaign ... Blackburn said she looks forward to campaigning with them "over the next several months and working with them in the U.S. Senate."

Richard Painter, a University of Minnesota law professor and prolific TV and Twitter critic of President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that he is forming an exploratory committee that could lead to a campaign for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Al Franken and now occupied by Democrat Tina Smith.

The deadline was Tuesday to submit nominating petitions for the races, plus the race for U.S. Senate. Because of a redrawn boundary map, the Pennsylvania Department of State pushed back the petition deadline to March 20 for those running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Here is a look at the ...

Casey and 3 Republicans File Paperwork for US Senate Race ... elections officials say Democrat Bob Casey and three Republicans filed petitions before Pennsylvania's deadline to get on the primary ballot for U.S. Senate. ... Vodvarka is making his fourth run for U.S. Senate, but his first as a Republican.

(DES MOINES) – Gov. Kim Reynolds issued the following statement on Tuesday on Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey's confirmation by the U.S. Senate to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). “Bill Northey is a ...

(WVEC) -- A new poll is taking a look at how Virginia voters feel about the Republican candidates vying for Tim Kaine's U.S. Senate seat. Christopher Newport University's Wason Center for Public Policy released a new survey Monday showing two-thirds of polled Republican voters in the Commonwealth ...

Former Gov. Phil Bredesen officially launched his bid for U.S. Senate Thursday, announcing his run with an online video. Video from Bredesen for Senate. 636556909219566871-NAS-BREDESEN-01.jpg Buy Photo. U.S. Senate candidate and former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen serves chili to ...

In this Jan. 21, 2018, photo, lights shine inside the U.S. Capitol Building as night falls in Washington. President Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address Tuesday night but, as always, lawmakers are angling to steal part of the spotlight. Many female Democratic lawmakers plan to follow ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) Chele Chiavacci Farley, a private equity executive and Republican Party fundraiser, was chosen Friday by New York state GOP leaders to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in this fall's election. Farley's selection during a state party meeting at a Saratoga ...

Instead of seeking Democratic backing for his U.S. Senate race, Portland construction company owner Benjamin Pollard said Friday he plans to run as an independent. “Given the serious divergences between my policy positions and those of the Democratic Party platform, I believe that my campaign will ...

Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Senate passed the Rural Wireless Access Act, legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), requiring the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ensure their broadband coverage maps reflect the real-world experiences of consumers in rural America.

State Sen. Chris McDaniel is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker. The two will battle for Mississippi's conservative Trump supporters. Trump has endorsed Wicker. Geoff Pender. Omeria Scott. State Rep. Omeria Scott, D-Laurel (Photo: File/AP). CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN 2 COMMENTEMAIL ...

AP: Cruz, O'Rourke advance to US Senate matchup. Cruz and O'Rourke clinched their parties' nominations Tuesday. O'Rourke is raising more money than Cruz so far but remains very unlikely to win in November. Author: KHOU.com Staff. Published: 9:39 PM CST March 6, 2018. Updated: 9:43 PM CST March 6, 2018.