Official: Ag secretary to run for Senate
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns will resign his Cabinet post to run for the U.S. Senate in Nebraska, a state Republican official said Wednesday.
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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns  will defend an administration plan to reopen the border to  Canadian cattle at a Senate hearing on Thursday, where he will  face questions about whether the action will expose the U.S.  beef industry to more cases of mad cow disease.
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US President George W. Bush named Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns as the new secretary of agriculture on Thursday, to succeed Ann M. Veneman, who announced her resignation in mid-November.
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President George W. Bush nominated Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns on Thursday to be agriculture secretary, choosing a dairy farmer&#39;s son who has traveled widely to promote US farm sales abroad.
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate confirmed Andrew von Eschenbach, President Bush's nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, after lawmakers blocked a vote for months because of complaints about the agency.
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MINNEAPOLIS  &#151; Comedian Al Franken said Wednesday he will run for U.S. Senate in 2008, confirming his long-suspected plans to seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
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PONTIAC, Mich. -- Mike Bouchard was eager to make the sale as he bantered with Tracey Allen at a Labor Day street fair. Pitching his Republican candidacy for the U.S. Senate, the Oakland County sheriff heard her say she favored Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow.
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Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox announced Monday that she will run for governor in 2006, making her the second Democrat working to deny re-election to Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue. Democratic Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor announced earlier.
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President Bush will nominate Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns to be the next US agriculture secretary, farm industry and administration sources said on Thursday.
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YANKTON, SD - The selection of Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns as the next US Secretary of Agriculture will be a boon to South Dakota, the head of the state&#39;s agriculture department said Thursday.
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The U.S. Senate early on Saturday confirmed Jill E. Sommers, a Kansas Republican, to be a commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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ST. PAUL - A leading state senator said he may push for a ban on a herbicide commonly applied to corn crops across Minnesota, citing research that suggests the chemical causes deformities in frogs and other health hazards.
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Senators on Tuesday pressed Health and Human Services nominee Mike Leavitt for a permanent commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration, which has been without one for nearly a year amid rising concerns about the safety of drugs on the market.
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By Suzanne Struglinski Deseret Morning News  WASHINGTON -- President Bush intends to nominate James Caswell of Idaho to be the next head of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced Wednesday.
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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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Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner intends to run for the Senate next year, Democratic officials said Wednesday, assuring his party a competitive race for a seat long in Republican hands.
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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.