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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Sen. Daniel Inouye holds up a photo of himself on July 31, 1987 in Washington.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 19,478
That’s how many days the late Senator Daniel K. Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat who died Dec. 17, served in Congress. Inouye entered the House of Representatives when Hawaii achieved statehood in 1959. He was elected to the Senate in 1962...
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Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, questions witnesses during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in this file photo.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 56
That’s how many years it’s been since West Virginia elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate. It’s the longest such drought for Republicans in the nation. The last West Virginia Republican to win a Senate race was Chapman Revercomb, whose...
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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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Rep. John Conyers, Jr.,left, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. and Rep. Carolyn Maloney hold a news conference to discuss a proposal to reform election financing.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 38,077
That’s the combined number of days that Michigan Democrats John Dingell and John Conyers have served in the U.S. House of Representatives, respectively the longest and seventh-longest tenures in the history of that institution. Their combined tenure comes out to...
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