Conservative senator latest to announce interest in White House
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Conservative Republican Senator Sam Brownback has become the latest politician to take formal steps to run for the White House in 2008, filing paperwork to form a presidential exploratory committee.
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The incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is promising an array of oversight investigations that could provoke sharp disagreement with Republicans and the White House.
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A leading Senate Republican on defense issues, Sen. John Warner, will call on President Bush to solicit privately the opinions of Democrats before forging a new strategy on Iraq.
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Fred Thompson, a former Tennessee senator and "Law &amp; Order" actor, will take a step toward a formal presidential candidacy next week, several officials with knowledge of the plans said
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the moderate Republican in line to head the Senate Judiciary Committee, pledged Sunday to move quickly on White House judicial nominees if he becomes chairman.
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The senator took the platform of a late-night talk show and said he would formally announce his campaign for the presidency in early April.
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Democratic powerbroker Edward Kennedy will announce that he is backing the Illinois senator
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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One might expect Republican senators to cheer the prospect of a colleague becoming the party's presidential nominee.
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Senator Joe Biden, a foreign-policy expert in the US Senate, joins the race for the White House in 2008.
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A conservative Republican senator said Sunday most lawmakers believe President Bush will focus on reducing U.S. troops in Iraq once a top general reports in September on the war's progress.
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TOPEKA, Kansas  - Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas, a two-term conservative U.S. senator whose presidential campaign failed to draw money or garner much attention, dropped out of the 2008 White House race on Friday.
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New Hampshire's senior senator is backing Republican Mitt Romney for president.
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Former Senator Fred D. Thompson has taken steps that make it clear that he is likely to run for the White House.
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For months, President Bush has been courting his core conservative supporters. Now, in a New York minute, he's shifting his focus to moderates, independents and Democrats not entirely sold on John Kerry. He wants to be known as the "compassionate conservative" again.
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A higher tax on domestic flights and a moratorium on airport expansions are among some of the key proposals a Conservative policy group will announce Thursday as part of the political party&#39;s commitment to fighting climate change.
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The former governor of Virginia is expected to announce his plans on Thursday.