Word: sen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Wednesday evening. Shaheen, who is running for senate in New Hampshire, covered a number of domestic and foreign issues in her speech, including the economy and national security. "We need a new economic direction," Shaheen said, whose speech followed NY Sen. Charles Schumer ‘71. "No more country-club economics at the expense of working families and no more tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas." Shaheen said that a Barack Obama Administration and Democrat-led Congress should cut taxes for middle-class families and small businesses to jumpstart...
...Wednesday, Sen. Joseph Biden boiled it down to a simple chant in his speech accepting the nomination as Obama's running mate. McCain equals Bush. "That's not change," Biden repeated again and again as he laced into the Republicans. "That's more of the same...
...Presidential candidate - she was a TV reporter. A 1987 graduate of the University of Idaho, she covered Alaskan politics for Anchorage's NBC affiliate. Between 2004 and 2007, after getting into government, she wrote a series of op-eds for the Anchorage Daily News that offer clues about why Sen. McCain picked her in the first place - and what to expect now that she's entered the national election fray...
...just 44 - is only one of several counterpoints she could offer to the youth-friendly Obama campaign. A newcomer to national politics herself, having risen from mayor of Wasilla (population 6,715) to governor of Alaska in 2006, she trumpets some of the same calls for change that attract Sen. Obama's followers. "If we want to unleash the energy hidden under North Slope tundra," she wrote in 2006 about Alaska's gas pipeline negotiations, "the best way to get the job done is to unleash the energy of a new generation of leaders...
...surely shakes up the analysis," said former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats, a McCain supporter. "All of a sudden it's the Democrats who rejected a woman for the ticket and the Republicans who added a woman to the ticket. So all of a sudden it's back to the drawing board...