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Star Scientific Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jonnie Williams treated Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell to a $2,268 vacation getaway.
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U.S. lawmakers are using this week’s debate over each party’s fiscal priorities to generate fodder for 2014 congressional election attacks.
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U.S. Senator Tim Johnson’s decision to retire after the 2014 election makes the Democrats’ job of holding their Senate majority tougher.
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin of Michigan said he won’t seek a seventh term, becoming the fourth Senate Democrat to announce plans to retire after 2014.
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A wide-open U.S. Senate race with no incumbent kicked off today after New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg, the chamber’s oldest member and last veteran of World War II, opted not to run again.
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The uphill climb for Democrats to defend their 53-47 Senate majority next year just got steeper with the decision by Nebraska’s Ben Nelson not to seek re- election.
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Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist announced he is backing Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock over U.S. Senator Richard Lugar in the state’s May 8 Republican primary, a blow for the six-term incumbent days before his toughest re-election challenge.
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The election-year arithmetic in U.S. Senate races is growing increasingly complicated for Republicans, diminishing the party’s prospects of winning a majority that earlier this year was seen as within its grasp.
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New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez’s job-approval ratings have plunged amid allegations that he improperly helped a longtime friend and donor, even as fellow Democrats say they’re standing behind him.
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Republicans are poised to win the most governorships since 1994 as candidates including Pennsylvania’s Tom Corbett , Michigan’s Rick Snyder and Ohio’s John Kasich seize on the faltering economy and persistent unemployment in bids to take over Democrat-led states.
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