http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ussenate/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:29:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286340/posts Sen. John McCain touched on a variety of topics with The Daily Courier while visiting Prescott July 4, from single-payer health care to a revived push for a national scenic area designation in the Sedona area. . . . . . Other topics with McCain included: . . . . . * Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. McCain said he hasn't decided how he will vote on Sotomayor, especially since he still needs to talk to fellow Sen. Jon Kyl about her. Kyl serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Daily Courier, Prescott, Ariz. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286340/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:29:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280335/posts Will post all contact information for senate. Freerepublic previous thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280335/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:32:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280813/posts Sen. Arlen Specter continues to pick up support from Democratic party leaders across Pennsylvania. However, a new poll indicates that the five-term incumbent has not convinced a majority of Pennsylvania voters that he should be re-elected. According to a new Franklin & Marshall poll released Thursday, only 28 percent of registered voters in Pennsylvania think Specter should be re-elected. That number is down from 40 percent in March, a month before Specter's "conversion" to the Democratic Party. Back then, roughly half the voters in each party said that Specter was doing an excellent or good job in the Senate. The... The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280813/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:52:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2279651/posts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2009 Contact: Francisco Lopez, Executive Director: (503) 269-5694 Erik Sorensen, Communications Director: (503) 488-0263 Historic White House Meeting on Immigration a Complete Success Roadmap to Immigration Reform makes a strong and positive beginning Salem, Ore--Today members of Congress from both houses and from both sides of the aisle met at the White House for an historic working session on Immigration Reform. The White House meeting, which was postponed from last week, was rescheduled for today after immigration reform proponents generated over 200,000 faxes, 30,000 phone calls, and 3,300 personal notes calling on the President to... Oregon Immigrant Rights Coalition (press release) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2279651/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:47:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278941/posts U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint helped scuttle national immigration reform last year not by trying to win over his fellow senators but by reaching out to people outside the U.S. Capitol, and he's now taking a similar tack with President Barack Obama's health care proposal. DeMint, R-S.C., is saying the best way to extend health coverage to the uninsured would be to make it easier for people to buy private insurance, not by expanding government programs. "We're not trying to change the whole system with this. Basically, this plan is based on the idea: If you like what you've got, keep... The Post & Courier, Charleston, SC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278941/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:44:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273579/posts After twice postponing a highly anticipated meeting between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders on immigration reform, the White House is under increasing pressure to get legislation done this year. Winning congressional approval of an immigration measure by December is a steep climb, with the economy, health care and energy higher on the president’s agenda. So far, Obama has promised only to begin the discussion at the summit set for next week. But if the president does not move quickly, he will suffer the same fate as his predecessor, President George W. Bush, who left office acknowledging that failure to... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273579/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:37:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273299/posts Link only, per FR copyright and excerpt policy USA Today / MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273299/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:45:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272611/posts Tom Cox, president of the Arkansas Tea Party organization, will announce his candidacy for the Senate on Monday at a gathering of the Arkansas Tea Party group in downtown Little Rock. Cox, who plans to run in the Republican primary, is the first leader of the grassroots anti-tax movement to run for federal office. He is seeking the Senate seat held by Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln. The local businessman, who has not previously run for elected office, became involved in the Tea Party movement after watching CNBC host Rick Santelli’s February rant against the federal stimulus. . . . .... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272611/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:13:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270825/posts WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell may have a tepid relationship with fellow Kentucky Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, but he's giving GOP rising star and 2010 Senate candidate Florida Gov. Charlie Crist a thumbs up. According to Crist's Web site, McConnell gave the governor a full-throated endorsement. "Decisions are being made every day in Washington that have a direct impact upon the lives of all Americans and we need Charlie Crist in the U.S. Senate to ensure that those decisions will benefit the citizens of Florida.” Crist, McConnell and other party luminaries are slated to attend a campaign fundraising... McClatchy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270825/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:25:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270421/posts After we broke through the 218 cosponsor threshold on H.R. 1207, I didn't think today could get any better. However, we have even more news. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) today became the first cosponsor of S 604, H.R. 1207's companion legislation. We still have a long way to go before we pass real legislation to Audit the Fed, but this is yet another major step toward our ultimate goal. Sen. DeMint is highly respected and one of the most principled conservatives in Washington. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), 604's lead sponsor, is a firebrand Independent progressive. To see these two guys on... Campaign for Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270421/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:22:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268386/posts WASHINGTON — Remember back to September, when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was a newly minted vice-presidential candidate and she was asked by ABC's Charlie Gibson about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and her split with her running mate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. At the time, she told Gibson: "We'll agree to disagree, but I'm gonna keep pushing that, and I think, eventually, we're all gonna come together on that one." Apparently Palin wasn't persuasive enough. Tuesday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee shot down Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's effort to open up ANWR to directional drilling. The... McClatchy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268386/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:26:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266679/posts Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" that President Barack Obama's proposed health care plan is the "first step in destroying the best health care system the world has ever known." "When the government is involved more and more in the details," Shelby said, "and you start the one-pay deal and you got the government competing with private enterprise with all the incentives the government has and the power, they can destroy the marketplace for health care and it will be a mistake and the American people better be careful in what they want." Politco.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266679/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:45:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264351/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) — Republican Senator John McCain on Wednesday joined his former rival President Barack Obama in calling for a nuclear-free world, a goal previously formulated by former president Ronald Reagan. During a lengthy speech on the Senate floor marking the unveiling of a statue of Reagan in the Capitol, the veteran Arizona lawmaker recalled how his "personal hero" had dreamed of a world free of nuclear weapons. "That is my dream too," McCain said. "This is a distant and difficult goal. And we must proceed toward it prudently and pragmatically, and with a focused concern for our security and... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264351/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 03:22:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259481/posts Tallahassee - Gov. Charlie Crist signed into law a $1-per-pack cigarette tax hike Wednesday - the biggest of its kind in Florida history -- saying he hopes to kill the habit that results in thousands of deaths every year. "I view it more as a health issue than a tax issue," said Crist, a Republican who broke with a career-long opposition to tax increases. " Ronald Reagan used to say if you want to kill something, tax it. It wouldn't be bad if we killed smoking. It would save a lot of lives." As of July 1, Florida's new cigarette... The Orlando Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259481/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 01:53:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258715/posts WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Arizona's U.S. senators, both Republicans, congratulated Sonia Sotomayor on her nomination to the Supreme Court and said they would study her record thoroughly before the Senate's confirmation vote. . . . . . Sen. John McCain also congratulated Sotomayor and said, "I look forward to examining her record thoroughly during the Senate confirmation process." AP / KTAR-FM 92.3 Phoenix, Ariz. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258715/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 00:29:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255778/posts Last year I supported Sen. John McCain for president. Despite these efforts, the American public chose Barack Obama as the person they wanted in the White House to confront the worst financial market turmoil since the Great Depression and the worst recession in a generation. Regardless of whom they voted for Nov. 4, he is our president, and every patriotic American should hope he succeeds in ending the economic problems that now beset our country. Soon after his inauguration, the president signed legislation aimed at stimulating economic growth. Many good and decent people opposed this measure, and some even offered... The Tampa Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255778/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 20:53:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254764/posts Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s decision to run for the Senate in 2010 set the stage for a potentially brutal GOP primary battle between moderates lining up behind Crist and conservatives backing his challenger Marco Rubio. Crist has a huge lead over Rubio in a new poll of registered Republicans in the Sunshine State. But the Senate race could showcase the deep divide that national Republicans are struggling to overcome after two consecutive election-year blowouts. Even more troubling for the beleaguered party – it’s just one of many moderate-versus-conservative primaries taking shape in top races next year. Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254764/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 16:37:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2254383/posts You know Harry Reid is usually thought of the quiet part of the two-headed Pelosi-Reid monster. But today he set a new world record, Most screw-ups by a Senate Majority leader during the same press conference. Now one would think that after wrongly declaring Teddy Kennedy's brain cancer in remission he would be more careful, but there is no halting this Harry, this Majority leader turned medical expert also announced that Senator Byrd would be out of the hospital in the next day or two, no--wrong again. Finally he put too much spin on the President's closing gitmo funding loss... Yahoo News/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2254383/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 02:07:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254225/posts WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim Bunning acknowledged Tuesday that during a meeting in December, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told him that "I was too old and I couldn't win" a re-election battle in 2010. Bunning, 77, went on to call McConnell a "control freak." He also said he'll fare well in Kentucky without McConnell's endorsement in the Republican primary, since during the senior senator's tenure as a member of the GOP leadership the Republicans have lost several seats and could lose more in 2010. "If Mitch McConnell doesn't endorse me that may be the best thing that could happen to... McClatchy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254225/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 22:20:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253851/posts Marion Thorpe’s Bounced Checks and Unsavory Fundraising Stunts Now Online The Marion Thorpe fiasco is one of the saddest stories in American politics. It started when a midlevel appointee, Marion Thorpe, claimed that he had been the Chief Medical Officer of the State of Florida and announced a run, first for U.S. Congress and then for the United States Senate. In actuality, Thorpe had only been the Chief Medical Officer for Florida’s Agency for Healthcare, an advisory position that reports to a Deputy Secretary of that department. It ended with bounced campaign checks and some of the most vile fundraising... American Daily Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253851/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 13:41:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252304/posts The Obama administration, has taken away GM's ability to choose what cars to produce, Chrysler's choice of how to spend its marketing dollars, Chrysler's hedge funds ability to retain their contractual rights. They have the congress trying to take away your right to make your own medical decisions, threatened California for exercising its right to deal with unionized state works, and of course they are threatening our right to select which radio stations we can listen to. Do you detect a pattern? Congressman Steve Israel was set to throw his hat into the Democratic senate nomination ring against Kirsten Gillibrand... Fox News / The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252304/posts#comment Sat, 16 May 2009 18:35:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252006/posts WASHINGTON — South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham praised President Barack Obama's decision to maintain a system of military tribunals for some of the detainees reflects the standards he originally advocated before the Supreme Court forced a compromise with President George W. Bush. Graham, a military lawyer who's served on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he's had three conversations with Obama since December about detainee issues, along with more frequent contacts with senior administration and military officials. "We've got a chance to start over and do what I wanted to do seven years ago," Graham said. "That is,... McClatchy / The Charlotte Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252006/posts#comment Sat, 16 May 2009 01:35:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251717/posts PHOENIX (AP) - Sixty thousand people are expected to attend the National Rifle Association's annual convention that starts Friday in Phoenix. Organizers say the 3-day event is a celebration of America's Second Amendment rights and a gathering point for opponents of efforts to limit those rights. Friday's speakers include Sen. John McCain, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. AP / KSWT CBS 13 Yuma, Ariz. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251717/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 17:37:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251337/posts Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's decision to run for the Senate is putting the Republican Party's anti-stimulus stand to the test, with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele backing away from a threat to punish candidates who supported President Obama's signature economic recovery program. For some Republicans heading into the 2010 elections, opposition to the giant $787 billion spending bill that Mr. Obama signed in February was seen as a litmus test for success, analogous to the opposition to President Clinton's 1993 tax increases that helped fuel a Republican congressional takeover a year later. The February stimulus vote "was a... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251337/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 04:16:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251216/posts Democrat Joe Torsella is exiting the race for Pennsylvania’s Senate seat, stepping aside for newly Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) and clearing the primary field -- for the moment, at least. Torsella, a former deputy mayor of Philadelphia and head of the National Constitution Center, was the only major Democrat in the race until Specter switched parties last month. He raised a very respectable $600,000 in the first quarter and vowed to stay in the race after Specter switched. On Thursday, though, Torsella said in a video that he will no longer be a candidate. “Now that the dust has... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251216/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 00:26:12 GMT