Word: midterm
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...affect how he feels about it. "Like every parent who has a son or daughter serving that way, you will have great concern, but you'll also have great pride," McCain says. But it will be hard to ignore. If Republicans retain control of the Senate after November's midterm elections, McCain is due to become chairman of the Armed Services Committee in January, a position he has long aimed for. There he would have day-to-day responsibility for oversight...
...Bush himself, he is curtailing his traditional August working vacation at the ranch so that he can barnstorm before the midterm elections. Their outlook thus far seems so ominous for the G.O.P. that one presidential adviser wants Bush to beef up his counsel's office for the tangle of investigations that a Democrat-controlled House might pursue...
...alternative" and that the Hutchison-Pence proposal "might be another way to keep the conversation on immigration moving forward." However, he said some senators were contemplating attaching a border-security measure to an appropriations bill, and said that might have a better chance of passing before the midterm elections in November...
...Bush himself, he is curtailing his traditional August working vacation at the ranch so that he can barnstorm before the midterm elections. Their outlook thus far seems so ominous for the G.O.P. that one Presidential adviser wants Bush to beef up his counsel's office for the tangle of investigations that a Democrat-controlled House might pursue...
...missile presented too great a risk for the U.S. to bear. The moment had come, they argued, for a pre-emptive strike against the North Korean launch site. Even if Perry and Carter were speaking in part to a domestic political audience in an attempt to prove before the midterm elections that Democrats can sound tougher than the Bush Administration on national security, their argument is rooted in what's considered a strategic truth about Kim's regime. It is a government that, far from being crazy or irrational, is motivated entirely "by regime survival," says Yun Dukmin, a national...