Editor’s Note: This post was updated to reflect that this Friday, voters will vote in Puna and to clarify regarding donations from PCCC members. Saturday’s Senate primary in Hawaii had Sen. Schatz leading Rep. Colleen Hanabusa by 1,635 votes. However, the race is not over just yet. Officials deemed the voting […]
A new Twitter account has been set up with the handle @CongressEdits that shows when Wikipedia articles have been edited by IP addresses associated with the US House of Representatives and Senate. The account is a bot, meaning that the tweets are automatically sent out when the software notices an […]
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MI) has won his run-off, beating state Sen. Chris McDaniel. The six term Senator got second place in the Republican primary, but McDaniel failed to clear the 50% threshold, forcing the two into a run-off. The run-off got even more intense than the primary, with Cochran spending most […]
On CNN’s Inside Politics Sunday morning, host John King reported that former Sen. Scott Brown (R) has began reaching out for a Senate run in New Hampshire. If he wins the primary, he would face Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). Previously, however, Brown had served in the Senate representing the state […]
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has announced that he will step down at the end of the year, two years before his term ends. Sen. Coburn had self-imposed a term limit and says that this is not related to his cancer diagnosis. “Serving as Oklahoma’s senator has been, and continues to […]
