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...White House helm with some trepidation, he has since surprised many of the worried by courting them. One of his first meetings on Capitol Hill after taking the job was with the Senate GOP leadership. "He gave us all his personal cell-phone" number, said Nevada Senator John Ensign. "He said he promised to get back to us on issues within 24 hours." But Emanuel cannot count on these moments of goodwill to last for long. The position is not one for anybody who craves job security. Typically, chiefs of staff burn out or are eased out in less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Enforcer Named Emanuel | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

Republicans over the past weeks have made it clear they'd welcome Lieberman if he chooses to defect. "Joe Lieberman is certainly going to be a wild card," Senator John Ensign, a Nevada Republican, told MSNBC last week. "And it depends - you know, we welcome Joe. I think Joe's a terrific guy with a lot of integrity and does what he believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Traitor Among Us? The Dems' Lieberman Problem | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...suddenly popular idea of drilling for more oil. But the market meltdown has replaced $4-per-gal. gas as voters' top concern, and ever since Herbert Hoover, voters have looked to Democrats in economic hard times. "We're not catching a break," laments Nevada Senator John Ensign, Schumer's GOP counterpart who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats Drive for 60 in the Senate | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...have done. If Oakley radiates a no-nonsense stability and mental toughness, it is partly because, in the words of Robert Carswell, former Deputy Treasury Secretary, ''his career had him in every hot spot there was outside of Russia.'' His first test came as a 22-year-old Navy ensign, when he helped devise a plan (called off at the last moment by Eisenhower) to relieve the ill-fated French garrison at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Subsequent postings took him to Beirut, as well as ambassadorships in Zaire, Somalia and Pakistan. His dead-serious demeanor, reflected in his craggy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OAKLEY'S GAMBIT | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...John Ensign, chair of the Senate Republicans' re-election campaign, saying the issue will sway voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

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