The year was 1976, Gabriel Gomez remembers. He was playing Little League. Rep. Ed Markey was first running for Congress in Massachusetts. Now Gomez, a former Navy SEAL and son of Colombian immigrants, will face Markey in a contest for...
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Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Gabriel Gomez, right, points toward the audience as he takes the stage with his daughters Olivia, 13, left, Antonia, 10, second from left, and wife Sarah, behind, before addressing an audience with a victory speech at a watch party in Cohasset, Mass., on April 30, 2013.
Gabriel Gomez: The Year was 1976
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The Russell Senate Office Building in Washington.
Price of Admission to Congress (Cheap Seats) More than $1 Million
Want to be a member of Congress? First, raise more than $1 million. Or 10 times more to join the Senate. That’s the price of admission, as calculated by the watchdog group Maplight.org. The average House winner in 2012 raised $1.7 million, or $2,315...
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, left, talks to Thomas Curry, comptroller of the U.S. currency, following a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, on March 7, 2013.
Senator Kirk’s Sardonic Moment
When are drug cartels and terrorism funny? When you know your audience, as Sen. Mark Kirk apparently did when he devoted his microphone to a comedic moment as the Senate Banking Committee grilled federal regulators today. After hearing banking regulators...
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, questions regulators during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington on Feb. 14, 2013.
Elizabeth Warren Decries ‘Too-Big-For-Trial’ Approach to Banks
If there was any thought that Elizabeth Warren, who portrayed herself as an anti-Wall Street cop during her 2012 Senate campaign, would soften her attacks on banks once in office, she quickly dismissed such notions today. Warren used her first hearing as a member...
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Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington on Feb. 14, 2013.
54 Senators On Record Backing Cordray for CFPB Post
President Barack Obama already knew that Senate Democrats supported his choice of Richard Cordray to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. So why did 52 Democrats and two like-minded independents put their signatures to a letter today telling him what he...
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Elizabeth Warren, shown testifying at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in Washington on July 14, 2011.
Elizabeth Warren Quickly Fundraises Off AIG Decision
Elizabeth Warren has barely had time to warm her seat as the new U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, but she wasted no time sending a new fundraising note today — claiming some credit for stoking a populist backlash against the American...
Read more »Elizabeth Warren PAC Seeks to `Level the Playing Field’
During her winning Senate campaign, Elizabeth Warren frequently said she would work to “level the playing field” for middle-class families hurt by the excesses of Wall Street and Washington lobbyists. Now the Massachusetts Democrat, a onetime adviser to President Barack...
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Senator Scott Brown, a Republican from Massachusetts, speaks during an interview at the Capitol building in Washington, in this July 15, 2010 file photo.
Scott Brown: `We May… Meet Again’
So was that a cheerful goodbye or something else? It’s going-away-speech day on the Senate floor, and so far the one most likely to generate buzz came from defeated Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, who told his colleagues that “victory and...
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Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp., is projected during a news conference at the opening of Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s Marina Bay Sands Resort & Casino in Singapore.
Super-PACs’ Last Gasp: Mixed
Federal Election Commission reports due last night show a blitz of last-minute super-political action committee action in key Senate and House races. The late investments yielded mixed results. Less than three weeks before Election Day, a super-PAC backing Virginia Senate...
Read more »Bloomberg by the Numbers: 95.5
That’s the percentage of U.S. senators seeking new terms on the Nov. 6 general election ballot who were successful. All 16 Democratic senators who sought re-election won new terms. Five of the six Republican senators on last week’s ballot also...
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