Word: midterm
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...legal responsibilities seriously and operates within the law." During the HP testimony Committee chairman Representative Joe Barton indicated there was a "good chance" they would pass the pretexting legislation that day - the end of the hearings and the final Congressional session. (Members then left to campaign for the midterm elections and won't return until November.) No such luck. Aides to Representative Edward Markey and Senator Bill Nelson said that late in the day Barton's staff drafted an exception to the bill for "intelligence gathering purposes." The Democrats wouldn't approve it because the exception was too broad...
...Politics is Local in Ohio Republican incumbent Deborah Pryce faces an uphill battle in her bellwether midwestern district, a clear sign that this is a very different kind of midterm election...
...Politics is Local in Ohio Republican incumbent Deborah Pryce faces an uphill battle in her bellwether midwestern district, a clear sign that this is a very different kind of midterm election...
...election night, and there's one that always comes up in their top two or three: Ohio's 15th district, which consists of most of Columbus and the fast-growing suburbs just west of it. There is no better indicator of whether this congressional election will follow the midterm norm in which voters make their decision based on their loyalties to their individual member of Congress, or whether they will be swept up by a national wave that could wash out the same Republican majority that came in on the last...
...labor says its forces are seeing the same effect from a measure this year that would raise the state minimum wage. Ohio AFL-CIO President William Burga says his organizers are targeting the 496,000 union "drop-off voters," who show up for presidential years but not in midterm elections. Meanwhile, he says, union operatives in the field are sensing a distinct lack of enthusiasm on the other side, particularly among religious voters. "They won't have the army they had in 2004," he predicts...