huffingtonpost.com - 2/5/2009
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The Senate is prepared for one of its most important votes in decades this weekend, whether to approve President Obama's economic stimulus package. Republicans are pushing back against Obama and Democrats are one vote short of the number needed to cut off debate and pass the stimulus.
Yet ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/10/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
If Joe Lieberman decides to run for a
fifth term in 2012, a new Quinnipiac poll suggests...
that it may be a lost cause. The new poll tests Lieberman as an independent against Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. The numbers: Blumenthal ...
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Poll: Lieberman Would Lose 2012 Re-Election In Landslide
thehill.com - 2/3/2009
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thehill.com —
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who announced Monday
he will seek a sixth term, is mulling a...
challenge against Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) in 2012. Multiple Connecticut Democrats, speaking on condition of anonymity, say Blumenthal ...
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Connecticut attorney general eyes Lieberman challenge
thinkprogress.org - 2/11/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
Arizona Sens. Jon Kyl (R) and John McCain
(R) have vehemently opposed President Obama’s recovery package, both...
voting against the legislation today. McCain called the bill “ generational theft , and in a Senate GOP press conference today, ...
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Recession Reality: John McCain and Jon Kyl’s Arizona.
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... farm bill,” lamented Don Stewart, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's spokesman. Opponents could hold up the process and force Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to file for cloture to cut off a filibuster – which could push a vote back to Saturday. “We hope in that case that they'd agree to a vote tomorrow,” said Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Reid. Naysayers, though, may be under pressure to allow an earlier vote from Senators McCain, Lieberman and Kyl who are hoping to make a long-planned foreign affairs conference in Munich this weekend . ...
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There’s no shortage of controversy when it comes to the massive stimulus bill – including whether or not it should include a “Buy American” provision.
Supporters insist that ...