Topic: Nebraska
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Tea Party Express made its first endorsement for the 2012 election season on Wednesday, throwing the weight of the conservative group behind Nebraska's Republican Attorney General Jon Bruning for the U.S. Senate.The Tea Party Express is one of ...
OMAHA, Neb (Reuters) - Nebraska will return to a winner-take-all electoral vote system if the state's Republican lawmakers get their way.State Sen. Beau McCoy, a Republican from Omaha, introduced a bill to repeal the split-electoral vote system. McCoy and other Republicans want ...
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January 27, 2010 This Week in Health Reform--Federal Legislative Overview House and Senate Republican Scott Brown?s victory over Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) in the January 19 special election to fill the seat of the late Senator Edward Kennedy (D) is ...
Outrage over health care deals undercut Obama's signature issueSpecial legislative favors, especially one designed to secure a Nebraska senator's vote for the embattled health care package, ignited so much public outrage that President Barack Obama is calling them a mistake and House ...
Ark. AG calls for congressional leaders to remove " Nebraska Compromise" from health care billArkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel is asking congressional leaders to remove the so-called "Nebraska compromise" from a federal health care bill.The plan would give Nebraska funding for expanded ...
President Barack Obama says he thinks the country is " on the cusp of making health care reform a reality. "Obama spoke at the White House on Saturday not long after Senate Democratic leaders secured the support of Nebraska's Ben Nelson to ...
LINCOLN, Nebraska (Reuters) - The healthcare reform debate raging in the U.S. Senate has turned Nebraska and a handful of other states into the kind of political hotbeds more usually seen in the closing weeks of presidential campaigns.In Lincoln, pro-reform groups have ...
Obama wins 1 of Nebraska's electoral votes; 1st electoral split in state historyPresident-elect Barack Obama won one of Nebraska's electoral votes, the first time in history that the state has split its votes and the first time in 44 years that it ...
What's at stake in Tuesday's elections, from president on down the ticketWhat's at stake in Tuesday's election: Special elections are being held in Mississippi and Wyoming, to fill the remaining four years in seats now held by gubernatorial appointees. Open Republican seats ...
