Senate&#39;s No. 1 Dem also its most threatened
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The expensive flurry of legislation passed by Congress as it left Washington this month is providing some lift to Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle&#39;s fierce struggle to keep his job.
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Democrats enter the fall campaign   with a clear edge in the high-stakes fight for control of the   U.S. Congress, riding a wave of momentum that has them   positioned to retake the U.S. House of Representatives and make   significant gains in the Senate.
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On the morning of Dec. 18, 2006, the phone lines in the office of incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid suddenly lit up -- a warning signal that the coming debate over Iraq could prove a perilous exercise for congressional Democrats.
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The Democrats suddenly face a map with unexpected opportunities in their battle for control of the Senate.
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The former president has been mostly an asset in his wife's presidential campaign, but some top Democrats are starting to issue warnings in the media.
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A lone Senate Democrat made a stand to force congressional debate on irregularities in the US presidential election, exactly four years after lawmakers did not challenge an even more contentious election.
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Bloomberg - Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton&#39;s main competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination last night tried to chip away at her record as a New York senator and former first lady on the issues of Iraq, Iran and health care.
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Democrats could have a chance at seizing a crucial Republican U.S. Senate seat in Colorado in a neck-and-neck battle pitting a brewing magnate against a Hispanic from humble origins.
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Nevada moderate Harry Reid was  elected by Senate Democrats on Tuesday to lead their battered  party and immediately warned Republicans he could either dance  with them or fight them.
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Some Democrats seemed ready to fight to keep one of President Bush's judicial nominees off the bench
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The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee warned fellow Democrats in the Senate against trying to block the nomination of Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) as CIA director, saying that would be picking the wrong fight in this election year.
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By REX SPRINGSTON  When W. Shelton Miles dropped a bomb on the state Senate subcommittee, you could almost see the blood drain from one lawmaker's face. "This is extraordinarily unusual," said Sen. John Watkins, R- Powhatan. "It is extraordinary," Miles replied.
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Facing a Dec. 9 runoff for his seat in Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District Ã¢ÂÂ and highly publicized bribery allegations that threaten to end his House career at eight terms Ã¢ÂÂ Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson is showing a good bit of resilience. His contest with Democratic state Rep. Karen Carter does not appear to have a strong favorite with just more than a week to go before the Saturday voting.
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Democrats enter the fall campaign  with a clear edge in the high-stakes fight for control of the  U.S. Congress, riding a wave of momentum that has them  positioned to retake the U.S. House of Representatives and make  significant gains in the Senate.
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Stymied by Republicans on the Sept. 11 commission bill and a lobbying overhaul, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., threatened Friday to take away senatorsÃ¢ÂÂ August vacation time.
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YANKTON, S.D. -- Democratic hopes of regaining the Senate majority hinge first on defending five endangered seats, with none more important than that of Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle. Daschle, long a fixture of South Dakota politics, is holding on by a thread as Republicans spend millions to try to protect their thin majority and topple a high-profile nemesis. Democrats have spent even more, making this lightly populated prairie state the unlikely epicenter of a battle for control of the Senate.
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In the nation's most dramatic &#151; and most expensive Senate race &#151; Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota is scrambling to maintain his political life in a state where Republicans say the Democrat is out of touch with people in a state that solidly supports President Bush.