Wyo. governor appoints new U.S. senator
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Wyoming's governor appointed state Sen. John Barrasso on Friday to temporarily replace the late U.S. Sen. Craig Thomas in Washington.
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The US Senate voted to confirm the appointment of President George W. Bush&#39;s new war &quot;czar&quot; Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, who will oversee the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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West Virginia's Bill Stewart has been selected as head coach.
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Republicans added US Senate seats in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina and replaced a retiring Republican in Oklahoma. Democrats claimed a seat in Illinois.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire, winner of one of the closest governor's races in U.S. history, was inaugurated Wednesday amid a legal challenge that could undo her election.
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President Bush Thursday chose two people to join his Cabinet, nominating Nebraska&#39;s governor to head the Department of Agriculture and a former New York City police commissioner for the Homeland Security post.
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It was sudden, but certainly no surprise. The state&#39;s attorney general, who has long been talking about a run for governor, has made his candidacy official.
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Washington, Nov 7 : US President George W Bush today chose Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns as the next Secretary of Agriculture to oversee the nation&#39;s farm and food programmes.
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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, dogged by criticism about being appointed to her job by her governor father, was leading the state's Republican primary on Tuesday, her first statewide election.
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By JIM MORRIS  COLUMBUS -- Sean Logan has been in his new job for a little more than a month and has already made some decisions that will affect outdoor recreation in Ohio.   With the election of a new governor comes new Cabinet-level leadership.
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Georgia and Wyoming began choosing replacements Tuesday for two longtime Republican congressmen who died this year after being diagnosed with cancer.
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US Sen. Jon Kyl&#39;s familiarity with border issues would serve the state well if President Bush were to pick the Arizona Republican as his new secretary of homeland security, Gov.
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Democratic former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove on Monday made official his intention to run for the Senate, announcing plans to challenge newly appointed Republican Sen. Roger Wicker just eight days into his tenure as Mississippi's temporary junior senator. Wicker was appointed after Trent Lott resigned, forcing a special election in November to fill out the last 4 years of Lott's term.
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The New York senator has been tapped by Democratic leaders to try to engineer the party's Senate comeback.
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The Senate has confirmed Carl J. Artman as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, filling a post that has been vacant for two years.
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The US Senate confirmed Mary Peters, a former highways chief, to be the new secretary of transportation, replacing Norman Mineta.
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has recruited a recent New Hampshire Republican chairman to lead his political operations in this first-in-the-nation primary state.