Senate leader's ticklish test in Nevada
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When a legal battle pitting Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters against Barack Obama's erupted in Nevada this week, Sen. Harry Reid, the most powerful Democrat in the state, took heat for declining to play referee.
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Jon Tester stands out from the other 99 members of the Senate in these ways:
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You be the judge, but a California state senator has worked himself into a righteous lather over RFID.
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Democrats may be in charge of the Senate these days, yet Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is no powerless bystander.
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CARSON CITY, Nev. - The U.S. Senate's top Democrat called Tuesday for a federal investigation into the activities of polygamists in Western states.  Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said in a letter to U.S.
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Rasmussen Reports - Incumbent Republican Sen. John Kyl is in cruise control and appears well positioned to win a third term in the U.S. Senate. The latest Rasmussen Reports election survey shows Kyl leading challenger Jim Pederson 52% to 35%. His lead was 19 in July and the current numbers are repeats of the results from June&#39;s survey.
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Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing.
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Sen. John Kerry's Nevada supporters said they liked what he had to say &#151; though not with his East Coast accent &#151; when he campaigned in the state this week.
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Next stop: Nevada caucus on Saturday, Jan. 19.
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Presidential politics and partisan resentments reached a boil in the Senate Wednesday night, as a heated exchange between Sens. Barack Obama and Lindsey Graham erupted on the chamber floor and continued in a nearby corridor.
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The Senate is by design a cumbersome place to do business. Any one of the 100 senators can gum up the works, and they often do &#151; without uttering a word.
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HARTFORD, Conn. - A state Senate leader says he has the scoop on the poop in the state Capitol...
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By Cynthia Burton, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 6--With legislative races this year expected to do little to tilt the balance of power in Trenton, the hottest race in New Jersey could very well be the one for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Frank Lautenberg.
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CASPER, Wyo. - A successful legislative candidate claims he was assaulted while going door to door on the campaign trail. Gerald Gay, 48, a Republican, said he was attacked after introducing himself to Walter Schnorenberg, a 78-year-old Democrat.
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Forget the lore of Bugsy Siegel and the frolics of Paris Hilton. Nevada &#151; long the wild child of American culture &#151; is being repackaged as utterly ordinary. With its new, early presidential caucus next January, the state is attempting to lure presidential candidates to unfamiliar terrain. And state Democratic Party leaders are banking that the best way to do that is to emphasize strip malls over the Strip.
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WASHINGTON -- Few electoral races have wandered so far into sitcom territory as the Senate contest in Virginia. In recent weeks the battle between Republican incumbent George Allen and Democratic challenger James Webb has heated up considerably while the men go toe-to-toe -- or slur-to-slur,...
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A Republican lawmaker slugging a Democratic colleague in the Alabama Senate this week reminded political observers of another black eye for the Legislature: Eight years ago, the lieutenant governor urinated in a jug, discreetly, at the front of the Senate chamber.