Topic: Kentucky
A pared down jobs bill was on the floor of the Senate yesterday for debate and vote.Republican Senator from Kentucky fillabustered this bill aganist the GOP leadership. Other senators from both parties pleaded with to stop and allow the bill to be ...
Hundreds of coal miners are rallying on Capitol Hill against the Obama administration's attempts to rein in mountaintop removal mining. The industry-backed group Faces of Coal paid for most of the travel and lodging expenses for the coal miners, who came from ...
He was Vice President under James Buchanan and later fought against the Union in the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga. He served in the Kentucky legislature, then in Congress, and in 1856 he was elected Vice President.. After the war Breckinridge ...
Republicans count on gains in Senate by riding either tea party or establishment candidatesIn the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With another win in a Senate Republican primary, this time in Alaska, the conservative Tea Party movement showed it is more than a political fad and has the staying power to be a significant force in November's elections.Polls show ...
Group sinks $520,000 into TV ad attacking Ky. Dem Senate candidate for supporting 'ObamaCare'A conservative political group is airing a TV ad in several Kentucky cities attacking Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jack Conway for supporting what it calls "ObamaCare."Washington-based Crossroads Grassroots Policy ...
At Vacation Liberty School, Kentucky kids get civics lessons with a Christian twistCall it vacation Bible school, Glenn Beck-style.Some three dozen kids ages 10 to 15 are spending five nights this week learning what organizers — some with tea party ties — ...
Democratic candidate mum on inviting Obama to campaign in Kentucky's US Senate raceThe Democrat running for Senate in Kentucky is keeping quiet about whether he'll invite President Barack Obama to Kentucky to campaign for him.State attorney general Jack Conway said Obama has ...
States join to establish 'Common Core' standards for high school graduationFor the first time, states have joined to establish what students should know by the time they graduate high school.Governors, state education chiefs and other officials from across the country gathered in ...
Deep US voter anger at Washington has propelled insurgent "Tea Party" darling Rand Paul to victory in Kentucky's Republican Senate primary over a hand-picked establishment candidate, CNN has said.The network relied on exit polls in projecting that Paul, an eye-doctor and conservative ...
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