...with Bennett Fred Lampropoulos , founder and CEO of Merit Medical , will get into the U.S. Senate race against three-term incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett. Lampropoulos , who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2004, intends to take advantage of the...

In this article: Bob Bennett, U.S. Senate, and Utah

...team and its clients while accepting free meals and drinks and tickets to sporting events and concerts from Abramoff lobbying partner Kevin Ring. </p><p>Coughlin previously pleaded guilty to engaging in a conflict of interest - a...

In this article: Jack Abramoff, Robert Coughlin, Kevin Ring, Justice Department, Misdemeanor, Defendant, Appropriation, and Kansas

...16, 18 million people to the private sector rolls. There are ways to do that, and this is not what this bill does." Corker and Sen. Lamar Alexander , the third-ranking Republican in the Senate , are again attacking the health-care reform...

In this article: Bob Corker, Medicaid, Lamar Alexander, Harry Reid, Tennessee, Revenue, Tax, and Medicare

...Huckabee, Smith said Barbour should share ideas specific to him and not the party. "Most of the time when you see Barbour on television, he is normally presenting the Republican viewpoint and is very much associated with the party," Smith...

In this article: Haley Barbour, Mitt Romney, Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi, IP Address, Sarah Palin, and Bill Clinton

...are reasons for the differences in crime rates, not that the rates are incompatible," CQ Press said in the release. Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums was quick to issue a statement refuting the report. "While the FBI has questioned the validity of...

In this article: Oakland, Ron Dellums, FBI, US, E mail, SAGE Publications, Camden, N.J., Washington, DC, and Richmond

...asks. "I get to be known as the woman scorned, forever?" She claims to be well past the events that turned her into a pawn in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, but as she talks about each twist and turn, the words pouring out in...

In this article: Michael Scanlon, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, George Hickenlooper, Colin Powell, Washington, FBI, and Kevin Spacey

...to sign it under duress, I think, in 1996, or he would have lost -- he might have lost about 4 percent or 5 percent in that fight with Bob Dole. I don`t think he would have lost, but he would have lost a lot of ground. So you guys showed the...

In this article: Haley Barbour, Republican Party, Mississippi, Newt Gingrich, Medicaid, Congressional Budget Office, Bob Dole, and Harry Reid

This week, Lamar Alexander (R-TN) - apparently unsatisfied with the GOP 's moderate steps of submerging the healthcare debate into a pit of hysterical accusations and blatant lies - upped his game and launched into a risible rant about...

In this article: Lamar Alexander, Medicaid, GOP, Tennessee, Medicare, National Association of Free Clinics, and Venom

...10:45:42 AM MST Washington » As part of a day-long assault on the Democrats' health reform proposal, Utah Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett repeatedly argued the legislation would cost too much and give too much power to the...

In this article: Orrin Hatch, Bob Bennett, Medicaid, Ideology, Tax, Medicare, Barack Obama, and Washington

Sen. Lamar Alexander Calls Medicaid a "Medical Ghetto" As Jed noted "What would a health care debate be without some good ol' fashioned race-baiting from the G.O.P.?" Stay classy Alexander. So let me get this straight...the Democrats want to...

In this article: Lamar Alexander, Medicaid, and Medicare

Soon to appear on the Senate floor: Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), chair of the GOP conference. Sources tell us that he 's going to talk about how the Democrats' plan is, in large part, just a punt to the states. He believes Reid 's bill will...

In this article: Lamar Alexander, Medicaid, and GOP

...at the top of his policy agenda. "It's the same turkey you didn't like in August, and it's not going to taste any better on Thanksgiving ," Sen. Lamar Alexander (R- TN ) said of the bill, which has been wending its way through the Senate for...

In this article: Harry Reid, Tom Harkin, Ben Nelson, Iowa, Charles Schumer, New York, Nevada, and Medicare

In this article: Haley Barbour, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Rick Perry, GOP, Cedar Creek, Texas, and CNN

Oakland mayor declined to report gift of intercontinental travel Updated 3:14 PM PST, Wed, Nov 18, 2009 When Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums traveled to South Africa to receive an award for his help in ending apartheid, the South African...

In this article: Ron Dellums, Oakland, Tax, Internal Revenue Service, and South Africa

... he revealed an affair with another man that ended his marriage and political career. Last Year, in his divorce trial, he testified that he is nearly broke. "Because of this case, I have been financially crippled," McGreevey testified.

In this article: Jim McGreevey, E mail, God, and Roman Catholic Church

Grover Norquist has a blunt message for anyone already angling for the GOP 's presidential nomination in 2012: Focus your energies on anything but next year's midterm elections at your own risk. Norquist , the president of Americans for Tax...

In this article: Grover Norquist, GOP, New York, Florida, Rudy Giuliani, Arkansas, and Tax

...52, also welcomed parishioners with an enthusiastic "Good morning." The churchgoers know him simply as " Jim ," and he knows many of them personally. McGreevey enrolled in a master of divinity program at the General Theological Seminary of...

In this article: Jim McGreevey, New Jersey, The Star-Ledger, Roman Catholic Church, Episcopal Church, All Saints Church, General Theological Seminary, and Chelsea

...that will be loaded with new spending on green technology and jobs - that would be paid for with tax increases. Democratic lobbyist Steve Elmendorf says the White House focus on deficit reduction could easily kill the cap-and-trade effort. "I...

In this article: Barack Obama, White House, Bill Clinton, Global warming, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Jake Tapper, and Ron Wyden