Topic: West Virginia
In exchange for switching to the Republican party, FoxNews reports, Republicans are reportedly offering Senator-elect Joe Manchin, current West Virginia governor, support for a plant to convert coal to diesel fuel that has stalled under Democratic leadership in Washington. It's one of ...
Robert C. Byrd's (1917-2010) legacy will be one that West Virginians will dwell on and be thankful for a long, long time. Robert C. Byrd, Born November 20, 1917, in Wilkesboro, North Carolina , lost his mother during the flu epidemic in ...
Republicans look set to pick up seven to nine Senate seats on Tuesday, with an outside chance of winning the 10 needed for a majority.. The GOP's best shots are in Colorado, Illinois and Nevada.. Republican prosecutor Ken Buck has led Democratic ...
Bennett will not run as the Republican candidate from Utah.A tearful Bob Bennett went before the microphones and stated he doesn't regret his votes while in the Senate, except for a couple of 'minor' ones.He seems to believe it was his vote ...
GOP Senate campaign fires agency over call to portray West Virginians as hicks in adA Republican production firm was behind a casting call that sought actors who looked like hicks to portray West Virginians in a U.S. Senate race ad, an e-mail ...
The story carries reports and subsequent denials that a "casting call" for actors with a "hicky, blue collar look" were recruited for a political campaign ad for television titled "Stop Obama", whose purpose was to link Governor Joe Manchin and President Obama. ...
An agency watchdog says the Mine Safety and Health Administration has never developed a reliable system for identifying mines with safety problems despite more than three decades of trying. The report followed the April explosion that killed 29 men at West Virginia's ...
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 ...
Late Sen. Robert C. Byrd to be buried during private service in suburban D.C.A private burial is planned for the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd at a suburban Washington cemetery.Byrd is to be buried Tuesday at a cemetery in Arlington, Va., next ...
Robert C. Byrd, the longest serving member of the U.S. Senate, a fiery orator and hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to his beloved West Virginia, died Monday. He was 92.A spokesman for the family, Jesse Jacobs, said that ...
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