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Chris McDaniel could win Thad Cochran's Mississippi Senate seat for Democrats.
Last week, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran announced that he was resigning due to health issues, triggering a November special election for the open Senate seat. Mississippi isn’t usually a problematic state for Republicans. It’s a strongly red, highly inelastic state—meaning that it usually votes for GOP candidates by a solid, reliable margin, regardless of which way the political winds are blowing.
Thad Cochran’s Future In Doubt
Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran may leave his post as Chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, and possibly the Senate as well, next month: Sen. Thad Cochran, chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, hasn’t presided over a hearing since early September. The Mississippi Republican has not given a speech on the Senate floor all year, and he’s introduced only two bills during that time, both of them minor.
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• BUSINESS. Arnold & Porter added three new lobbying clients to its growing government affairs business: Salt Lake Community College, internet registry operator VeriSign and electric vehicle charging network ChargePoint. Since aggressive hires, including a team from Squire Patton Boggs, the firm has added significant growth to its lobbying revenue.
Momentum builds for Clyburn poverty plan
Seven years in the making, Democratic South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn’s anti-poverty plan has found powerful friends — and a real shot at passage — in this year’s government spending debate. Leading Republicans have in the past supported Clyburn’s targeted spending approach, which would funnel more federal dollars to the most poverty-stricken parts of the country.
Republicans furious at leaked Pentagon memo
Republicans are fuming after an internal Pentagon memo that outlines the department's strategies to oppose annual defense policy and spending bills was released Monday. “For this administration, it's always politics first, even at the Pentagon,” House Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanPence to address House GOP Ryan: FBI playing politics with Clinton Republicans furious at leaked Pentagon memo MORE (R-Wis.) said in a written statement.
'Hardball' Pentagon memo creates firestorm
Republicans are livid after a leaked Pentagon memo revealed the department’s plan to “play hardball” against the House’s proposed defense funding method.
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