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A new Mason Dixon poll conducted for the SayfieReview shows that Gov. Charlie Crist (R) would be a formidable candidate if he were to seek Florida’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2010.

Half of Florida voters said they would consider voting for the first-term incumbent, should he seek the seat, with another 17 percent saying he would definitely have their vote. But 26 percent said they definitely would not vote for Crist, while 7 percent Read more…

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The top Republican on the House Budget Committee said today that Republicans will introduce their long-awaited budget alternative tomorrow. Many expected to see a detailed explanation of the GOP budget last week, but Republican leaders distributed a vague, 17-page “blueprint” that drew criticism from the White House.

“We’ll release all of our numbers and all of our budget,” said Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.). “Tomorrow, the Republican Read more…

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The Senate passed a bill today that would increase the number of members in the House of Representatives to 437, including one permanent seat in Washington, D.C. and one seat in Utah. The legislation garnered 61 votes, just enough to avoid a potential filibuster attempt by opponents.

One Republican amendment was added to the bill just before passage that would legalize firearms in the District. The Supreme Court ruled D.C.’s restrictive Read more…

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Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) announced this morning that he will run for the U.S. Senate in Missouri. A former teacher and university president, Blunt made the announcement at Harris-Stowe University in St. Louis. You can watch his announcement here.

“So why now? Why me?” Blunt said. “It’s an important time. The fight is in the Senate.”

After representing southwestern Missouri in the House since 1996, the St. Louis setting was Read more…

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Sadly, Barack Obama is no longer interested in purchasing your Dodge Shadow convertible, and then condemning it to the melting it has long deserved.

The Detroit Free Press reports that Senate “backers of a plan to give owners of old vehicles $10,000 toward buying a new, more fuel-efficient model withdrew their plan” late last week as negotiators sought to shrink the price tag of the proposed economic recovery package Read more…

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Michael Bennet’s swearing-in as senator from Colorado today means just two Senate seats remain vacant after a turbulent few months since the November elections.

Hillary Clinton resigned from her Senate seat from New York yesterday after being confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State. Her seat will likely be officially filled next week after New York Gov. David Paterson appoints her successor. He’s expected Read more…

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Fox Business Network’s Money for Breakfast host, Alexis Glick, asked me a question this morning that, frankly, took me aback.

We were in the midst of an interview discussing how it could be that the U.S. Senate, in its infinite wisdom and innate sense of intractability, could not pass the $14 billion loan package that would keep the Detroit automakers alive long enough to make this the next administration’s problem.
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Good Tuesday morning. Another Democratic Senate seat will open up later this week, though matching the excitement of the Illinois and New York seats will be tough…

The Transition
President-elect Obama is expected to announce his choice for Secretary of Education today — Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan. Education reform leaders appear to approve of this choice so far. Obama will introduce Duncan at Dodge Renaissance Academy, Read more…

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A proposal to prop up the domestic auto industry with $15 billion in federal loans during a government-led restructuring passed the House of Representatives yesterday with votes falling largely along partisan lines. Today, it heads to the Senate, where its prospects are far less certain. Congressional negotiators have already reached an agreement with the White House on the contents of the bill, so the Senate may be the last Read more…

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It was reported recently that country music singer Hank Williams Jr. plans to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee in 2012 — the next time a Senate seat is up in the state. An intriguing notion to say the least, but no announcement has been made yet, according to Williams’s publicist.

When reached for comment by RealClearPolitics, a spokesman for Williams’s publicist, Kirt Webster, said Williams “has talked about it, but no announcement Read more…

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