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Tag: U.S. Senate
Udall tries to hold on to Senate seat in tight fight...
Efforts in the past two weeks in the dead-heat U.S. Senate race have focused on getting voters to mail in ballots and now to drop them directly at polling centers. It's all about turn out now.
Wiretap: Ebola as limited medical problem; large psychological problem
An Ebola-infected nurse boarded a Frontier Airlines flight from Dallas to Cleveland, and the Ebola crisis moved to full-blown Ebola panic. It's not just...
Wiretap: Checking in on Iraq
"As Prime Minister Maliki spoke, a low-pitched rumble shook his office. Our tea glasses rattled. It was a car bomb — a few hundred yards from the fortified compound where he lives."
On the Stump: Randy Baumgardner, GOP U.S. Senate candidate
State Sen. Randy Baumgardner makes his case for a higher Senate.
Littwin: Ken Buck wants to assure you he won’t implode
Ken Buck he wants you to know -- now that he's running for the Senate again -- that he is actually very much pro-woman.
Bob Beauprez says he may jump into Senate race (or update:...
Bob Beauprez says he's considering getting into the GOP primary race to try to take Mark Udall's seat. No, seriously. I mean it, seriously.
Gridlocked U.S. Senate thin on women lawmakers
There are only 17 women in the 100-member U.S. Senate, which is one of so many under-the-radar problems exacerbating gridlock in the dysfunctional chamber, the Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel reports. By comparison, 17 is the same number of women who presently sit in the 35-member Colorado senate. The upshot, according to the lawmakers Terkel talked to, is that the family, health and poverty issues at the heart of daily national life are inadequately addressed and compromise and problem-solving are reduced to four-letter words.
Udall: GOP DREAM Act filibuster a divisive ‘political tool’
Colorado Sen. Mark Udall today had sharp words for Senate Republicans who derailed the DREAM Act, a bill that would create a path to citizenship for undocumented workers who come to the United States as minors.
GOP Latino group calls on Republican senators to support DREAM Act
Latino advocacy group Somos Republicans is calling on GOP Senators to support the youth-immigrant DREAM Act when it comes up for vote Thursday and...
Bennet pleads case at CU Boulder: ‘If you vote, we win’
BOULDER -- Swinging through University Memorial Center on the CU-Boulder campus minutes ago, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet pleaded soft and loud for students here...