U.S. Senate In The News

...in a tight race against Republican Pat Toomey, a businessman and former House member.Sestak defeated Obama-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, a longtime Republican who became a Democrat rather than face Toomey in a GOP primary. Organized labor and the White Hou

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...conversations with Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., who has said he was offered a job in the administration if didnât run against Sen. Arlen Specter. Sestak, who won the May 18 Pennsylvania primary and is now the Democratic candidate for the Senate seat, has sa

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...of people believe Obama is doing a fair or poor job as president. In the primary, Sestak defeated Obama-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, a longtime moderate Republican who switched parties rather than face Toomey in a GOP primary. Since then, outside groups h

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...will be the first time Obama has campaigned for/with Sestak this election cycle. Obama did not hide his support for Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary and his administration not so slyly tried to convince Sestak to drop his bid against Specter

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...cited sources in Ms. O'Donnell's campaign for a report predicting that Mr. Castle would follow the example of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter and switch parties after the election. The new hardball tactics from the Castle camp, Ms. O'Donnell said, "show

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...to elect a senator who will put Pennsylvania's working families first." Mr. Obama campaigned for Mr. Sestak's opponent, Sen. Arlen Specter, in the Democratic primary race after he successfully enticed the five-term Republican to switch parties. Mr. Obam

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...was always very supportive and told me when things are tough you’ve got to keep going,” Mr. Doherty said. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, who grew up in the same neighborhood with the Doherty children, recalled Mrs. Doherty as living "a life of total dedicatio

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...seats held by Democrats are considered competitive. > Pennsylvania: Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak, who knocked off veteran Sen. Arlen Specter in a primary, is in a tough fight for the U.S. Senate seat with former Rep. Pat Toomey. Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell

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...to start selling. It could mean only thing in Sullivan County this time of year - fair time! On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) joined fair officials and others to open the 2010 Sullivan County Fair, which is 159 years old this year. "I

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...Murkowski is the third senator to lose this year amid deep dissatisfaction with the Washington establishment. Bennett and Arlen Specter, D-Pa., were the others. She trailed Miller - an Ivy League-educated lawyer, West Point graduate and decorated Gulf

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...is the third senator to lose this year amid deep dissatisfaction with the Washington establishment. Bennett and Arlen Specter, D-Pa., were the others. She trailed Miller - an Ivy League-educated lawyer, West Point graduate and decorated Gulf War veteran

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...until it was too late. She becomes the third senator to be denied renomination this year, following Bob Bennett (R-Utah) and Arlen Specter (D-Pa.). Four House members have also been defeated in the primaries: Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.), Parker Griffith (R-

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...the lands that we do control so that we can develop them more freely and more economically." Murkowski is the third senator to lose this year amid deep dissatisfaction with the Washington establishment. Bennett and Arlen Specter, D-Pa., were the others.

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...becomes the third senator this year whose reelection bid did not get past the primary. Pennsylvania Democrats rejected Sen. Arlen Specter after he switched parties, and Utah Sen. Robert F. Bennett failed to qualify for the ballot at the state Republican

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WILKES-BARRE – With federal, state, county and local officials standing in the sweltering heat Tuesday morning, Willie Taylor made the wait well worth their while. Senator Robert Casey, Congressman Kanjorski and Andy Wallace talk after a press

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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has conceded defeat to upstart Tea Party favorite Joe Miller after a day of counting ballots in their razor-thin Republican primary, the Associated Press reports. The AP said Murkowski was behind Miller, a lawyer and Gulf War

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...backed by the PBGC, which so far has been financed only by insurance premiums, investment income and pension plan assets. Sen. Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat, contends that his Create Jobs and Save Benefits Act of 2010 costs no more than $10 billion

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...morally acceptable? The latest poll was conducted in May of this year. In Pennsylvania’s own congressional delegation, Sen. Bob Casey and Rep. Tim Holden have always voted against any sort of embryonic stem cell research. The question, for them as fo

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WILKES-BARRE - The U.S. Economic Development Administration has awarded more than $2.2 million to build a second small business innovation center on South Main Street where the former Blum Brothers building was demolished. The announcement was made

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski narrowed her 1,668-vote deficit to challenger Joe Miller from last Tuesday's GOP primary in Alaska – but only by 208. More votes remain to be counted. Regional AccuVote board members Rica Gaines, left, and Beth Madren process ballots

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