Sen. Jay Rockefeller isn’t seeking re-election next year, though the wealthy West Virginia Democrat is still using some of his personal fortune to help his party’s prospects in the midterm election. Rockefeller donated the maximum $32,400 to the Democratic Senatorial...
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va., arrives in the Senate Reception Room before the 'Vote-A-Rama' on amendments to the budget resolution on March 22, 2013.
Rockefeller, Kerkorian Help DSCC Raise $3.54 Million
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A cyber security analyst works in the "watch and warning center" during a tour of the government’s cyber defense lab in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Rockefeller Seeks SEC Guidance: ‘Insufficient’ Cybersecurity Reporting
A Senate leader is asking the new Securities and Exchange Commission chairman to give more authoritative guidance to companies on disclosing cyber attacks, calling reporting so far “insufficient.” “While the staff guidance has had a positive impact on the information...
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Ashley Judd, center, attends the final day of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 6, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
2014 Senate Primer: Why Democrats Have to Worry
Democrats have been here before — confronting a numbers game that undercuts their bid to keep a Senate majority. They confounded such odds in 2012, but by necessity their sigh of relief was brief. The Democrats face a similar scenario in the 2014 midterms, and later...
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Sen. Mike Johanns waits for the beginning of a news conference in this file photo.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 11
That’s how many senators in the 113th Congress are former governors. Mike Johanns, Nebraska’s Republican governor from 1999 to 2005, the U.S. agriculture secretary from 2005 to 2007 and a senator since 2009, announced yesterday that he wouldn’t seek a second Senate...
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Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, a five-term member of the Senate, will retire in 2014.
Harkin Retiring: ‘Somebody Else’s Turn’
Updated at 5 pm EST Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa will not seek another term in 2014. The five-term Democrat and nearly four-decade veteran of Congress is the second fixture of his party in the Senate to announce his retirement...
Read more »West Virginia Republicans Look to End Losing Streak Post-Rockefeller
Senator Jay Rockefeller’s retirement at the end of 2014 gives West Virginia Republicans an opportunity to end one of their party’s longest losing streaks. Republicans have lost 21 consecutive Senate races in West Virginia, spanning more than half a century. That includes...
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Representative Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican from West Virginia, right, and Representative Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York, left, talk to Lance Auer, deputy assistant secretary for financial institutions with the U.S. Treasury, prior to a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing in Washington.
Capito in 2005: West Virginia Senator ‘Pretty Cool Job’
Representative Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican who announced today that she will run for the Senate in 2014, said seven years ago that being a senator “looks like a pretty cool job.” Capito, who won a seventh House...
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Senator Jay Rockefeller on the Capitol.
A Rockefellerian Line of Credit
A Rockefeller is probably good for a loan like this. The question is why he needs it. Today, for the first time, members of Congress divulged the details of their home mortgages as well as their general personal finances. And...
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