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Barack Obama’s approval ratings have rapidly declined as more of his hard-Left agenda hits the table and the economy begins to decline, but Obama’s not the only person who has that problem. Eric Ostermeier at Smart Politics looks at polling numbers from Survey USA and finds that almost everyone in the Senate has lost ground with voters. However, net approval for Democrats has declined twice as much as Republicans: Herb Kohl (D-WI) has seen the biggest net drop, at minus 23 points during this span. Overall, these 25 Senators have seen their collective +24.8-point net approval rating in January fall...

Video being promoted online at aging.senate.gov and through emails from Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl's office to constituents. His take on healthcare "reform."

Former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said that he'll announce his political intentions at the state Republican Convention in Appleton in May. Thompson, in a satellite interview from Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, continues to fuel speculation that he might run for governor again or the U.S. Senate, WISC-TV reported.

John Kerry -- who, as I recall, served in Vietnam, and in his life ran for president -- yesterday "yesterday attacked Republicans for having an 'orthodoxy of view' and overly inserting religion into politics, accusing them of using God as a justification for appointing conservative judges." Now, I have sat here and I have said until I'm blue in the face that the Democrats are doing everything they can to keep people of faith off the bench. They don't want religious people as judges. They just don't, and you know why: Because they're afraid of them. They're afraid of their...

MILWAUKEE (AP) U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl has hired a Democratic organizer to begin coordinating his run for re-election in 2006. The Wisconsin Democrat said Tuesday that he hired Michael Teter to start putting the campaign together. Kohl, who turned 70 Monday, announced over the weekend that he is seeking a fourth six-year term in the Senate. The millionaire owner of the Milwaukee Bucks was first elected in 1988 and won re-election in 1994 and 2000. Teter was Wisconsin field director for the Democratic Party's campaign last year.

Soros' "Reform" By James O. E. Norell First Freedoms | May 28, 2004 If there were an illustration accompanying the word "hypocrisy" in the dictionary, it would be an engraving of globalist billionaire George Soros. Soros, one of the richest men in the world, backed campaign finance reform with huge cash donations to a wide variety of Washington "reform" special interest groups to accomplish what his funding conduit called an effort "to reduce the corrupting influence of very large donors" and to ban pre-election "issue advocacy" ads by groups like the NRA. Now, arch-reformer Soros is pouring perhaps as much...

Filed at 6:27 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Midwestern U.S. senators asked the Federal Trade Commission on Friday to investigate the region's soaring gasoline prices and whether consumers are being gouged at the pump. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline is up 54 cents a gallon from a year ago and the seventh highest on record at $1.66 a gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Department. Fuel costs are up even more in the Midwest, where Senators Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and Mike DeWine, Republican of Ohio want to know if oil companies are trying to...

WASHINGTON, May 23 — A federal district judge who has been criticized for some of his rulings and for his membership in an all-male club was endorsed for an appeals court post today. The approval came after three Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave President Bush's nominee their support. The nomination of Judge D. Brooks Smith for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, now goes to the full Senate, where a heated debate is likely. In the vote today, the nominee got all nine Republican votes. Since the committee has 10 Democrats, he...