Senator-elect Angus King of Maine says probably will decide which party to caucus with in time to vote in tomorrow’s congressional leadership elections. “I will probably have some comment for you some time tomorrow,” King, an independent who beat a...
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Independent Senator-elect Angus King from Maine. Photograph by Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo
King’s Caucus Call: Tomorrow
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Maine independent Senate candidate Angus King speaks at a news conference in Brunswick, Maine.
Angus King’s Recipe for Congress: No Budget, No Salary
Angus King thinks the U.S. Senate has no concept of time. In his newest Senate campaign commercial, the independent ex-governor of Maine holds up a clock that reads 8:00, telling viewers that the half of the Senate would read it...
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Sen. Olympia Snowe in Washington, DC.
Snowe Voices Frustration With Congress’ Early Recess Idea
Let’s assume Senate Democrats can work with their Republican colleagues to pull off a six-month stopgap measure to keep the federal government operating past Oct. 1. If they kick that can down that road, Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois...
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Marissa Mayer leads a discussion during an IdeasLab session during the WEF Annual Meeting.
Yahoo! CEO Mayer an Obama Donor
Marissa Mayer, who becomes chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc. today, was an early financial backer of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. Mayer, who’s leaving her job as a Google Inc. vice president, made the maximum $35,800 donation to Obama...
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Sen. Olympia Snowe gets a kiss from her husband, Jock McKernan, following her speech at the Maine Republican Convention in Augusta.
Congressional Exit Interview: To Tell the Truth
The directions were clear: Leave the cliches and bromides aside. And they did. Last night’s congressional “Exit Interview,” sponsored by Bloomberg Businessweek, featured four retiring lawmakers in a panel discussion: Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Representative Gary Ackerman...
Read more »Senators Bucking Their Parties on Contraception Rule
Just four senators — two who are retiring and two who are facing re-election this year — bucked their parties on a vote today that failed to cancel a contraception rule from President Barack Obama’s administration. Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican...
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