http://www.yourstreet.com/news/united-states-senate YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us NEW YORK -- Rudy Giuliani is back, whether he's planning to run for president, U.S. senate or just misses the spotlight.And he's talking about the topic that made him a national star: Sept. 11. Over five days this week, the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6753774/giuliani-back-in-spotlight-but-what-s-the-show- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:17:08 -0800 A leading abortion rights group delivered a rebuke to Republican U.S. Senate contender Mark Kirk today for supporting an amendment to the House-passed health care reform legislation that would prevent taxpayer-backed insurance policies issued under the plan from... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6752635/naral-mark-kirk-no-longer-pro-choice-after-stupak-vote Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:48:08 -0800 U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) (R) addresses reporters during the 2009 Reuters Washington Summit in Washington, October 21, 2009. BY THOMAS FERRARO Reuters WASHINGTON - A top U.S. Senate Republican invoked the memory of the scandal-marred Nixon administration on... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6750257/republican-leader-raises-spectre-of-presidential-enemies-list Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:02:08 -0700 FRANKFORT Another anonymous audio taping of Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo has popped up on YouTube, the third since last month in which Mongiardo speaks ill of his boss, Gov. Steve Beshear. On the latest taping, Mongiardo said people he calls around the state first want... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749455/another-tape-of-mongiardo-surfaces Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:04:08 -0700 WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, flush with almost $3 million in his campaign coffers, set the audacious task of saving freedom Monday in announcing he will seek a second term in the U.S. Senate. The Greenville Republican announced his re-election bid in an e-mail... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6745151/demint-will-seek-another-term Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:46:08 -0700 BROOKLINE - With the Red Sox baseball season over, politics took center stage yesterday in a Brookline neighborhood as the four Democratic candidates for US Senate gathered for their first face-to-face meeting in the short election season. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749344/senate-hopefuls-try-for-edge-in-face-off Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:41:08 -0700 BROOKLINE, Mass. -- It wasn't exactly a debate, but the four Democratic candidates for the late Edward Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat were meeting on the same turf for the first time to woo voters. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749176/mass-senate-hopefuls-honing-pitch-to-woo-voters Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:40:08 -0700 The primary election is less than two months away. BROOKLINE – With primary elections for the late Edward M. Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat less than two months away, candidates are racing to hone their campaign pitch. On Monday, Democrats Alan Khazei, Martha... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749043/mass-candidates-hoping-to-win-ted-kennedy-s-senate-seat-honing-pitch-to-vo Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:30:08 -0700 LAS VEGAS -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trailing two Republicans running to unseat him in next year's election, according to a newspaper poll. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6747354/poll-reid-trails-gop-candidates Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:00:08 -0700 LAS VEGAS (AP) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trailing two Republicans running to unseat him in next year's election, according to a newspaper poll. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6747408/poll-reid-trailing-lowden,-tarkanian Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:01:08 -0700 (AP) — Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has named another federal prosecutor as the city's new inspector general. Joe Ferguson is replacing David Hoffman, a former assistant U.S. attorney who recently left the inspector general's post to run for the Democratic... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749841/daley-taps-prosecutor-for-inspector-general Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:04:08 -0700 Mercury Public Affairs , the lobbying/consulting firm that started as a GOP shop but has been beefing up its bipartisan appeal by hiring from across the aisle, has added another prominent Democrat to its stable: Former Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr. Jones... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6740871/mercury-nets-former-obama-mentor Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:44:08 -0700 The U.S. Senate has once again approved a resolution officially apologizing to American Indians for past actions by the federal government. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6740739/senate-approves-apology-to-indians-for-mistreatment Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:11:08 -0700 Gov. David Paterson is scheduled to attend a "community conversation" in later this month in Brooklyn - a borough one might consider hostile territory for the embattled governor when it comes to support from fellow Democratic elected officials. Brooklyn Democratic... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6739755/paterson-to-brave-brooklyn Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:07:08 -0700 A Democrat plans to take on Senator Patrick Leahy in a primary for Vermont's U.S. Senate seat. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6736171/freilich-to-challenge-leahy-in-primary Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:04:08 -0700 While public comments continue to roll in on Colorado's plan to manage the federal roadless areas in its state, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, both Democrats from Washington state, introduced legislation in the Senate and House to reinstate... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6734364/legislation-filed-in-u-s-senate,-house-to-reinstate-2001-roadless-rule Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:56:08 -0700 I totally missed this but, via Greg Sargent, it turns out that U.S. Senate hopeful Mark Kirk has a challenger from the right in "little-known Patrick Hughes for the Republican Senate nomination in Illinois." http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6734452/the-illinois-senate-plot-thickens Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:15:08 -0700 It was only a few months ago that Roatti authored a post arguing that Senator Chuck Schumer should be the majority leader of the U.S. Senate. In the comments of that post, I made the case against it. I did so for a number of reasons, namely Wall Street and the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6734580/senator-schumer-a-champion-of-real-progressive-health-care-reform Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:46:08 -0700 Matthew Ryan of "New York Now" forwarded a preview of his interview with GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio, focusing on perhaps the most famous moment of his ill-fated U.S. Senate campaign against Hillary Clinton. In a TV debate, Lazio left his lectern, walked... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6733987/lazio-revisits-a-2000-turning-point Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:09:08 -0700 Voters in Pennsylvania now, by the slightest margin, favor Republican Pat Toomey over Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter in the 2010 race for the U.S. Senate, a poll released this morning says. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6737246/toomey-takes-narrow-lead-over-specter,-poll-shows Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:53:08 -0700