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Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
As he continues to fall behind Mark Begich in his re-election, Ted Stevens faces the prospect of being expelled from the Senate Republican Conference this week: WASHINGTON — On what may well be the worst weekend of his professional life, Ted Stevens faces only bleak prospects: maybe losing the U.S. Senate seat he has held for [...]
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Ridenbaugh Press (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
1SALMON/ENVIRONMENT Perspective on the salmon debate from Rocky Barker/Idaho Statesman noting that the impending change in the Northwest’s congressional delegation, combined with the change of presidential administrations, may mean an entirely new approach for salmon. Even before January: He points to this week’s dam removal agreement on the Klamath River as “a major shift in [...]
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Ridenbaugh Press (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
There’ll be a big change in the representative Idaho’s 1st House district gets the next couple of years - a soft-spoken pragmatist. Democrat Walt Minnick, replacing an ideologue prone to controversy and conflict, Republican Bill Sali. In personality, Minnick is a lot closer in style to the new senior senator, Mike Crapo, than Sali is. [...]
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Ridenbaugh Press (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
Got an election e-mail from the Bill Sali congressional campaign that looked, and mostly was, a totally normal such missive: An endorsement from a fellow Republican in the Idaho congressional delegation, Mike Crapo. The endorsement as such (of one party member by another) is standard. Till this line, midway down: “Bill’s opponents are trying to put [...]
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Boise Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Boise’s Team Dave, U.S. Senator Mike Crapo, and Rep. Mike Simpson are seeking to derail a waiver of Federal LAw on some Boston area public transit locomotives. There motive is to “preserve Boise jobs,” but the action would allow Boise’s Motive Power to be the only bidder and provider of new locomotives for a [...]
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StandardNET Local News Feed (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Excerpts from a 19-page document, "Freddie Mac Field Program State by State Summary Report," dated Dec. 12, 2005. It shows that Republican consulting firm Freddie Mac and Republican consulting firm DCI targeted 17 GOP senators in a campaign to build opposition to a tough regulatory bill.
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that DCI, a Republican consulting firm, was hired by Freddie Mac to undermine a bill supported by Senate Banking Committee Republicans.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
Excerpts from a 19-page document, " Freddie Mac Field Program State by State Summary Report," dated Dec. 12, 2005. It shows that Republican consulting firm Freddie Mac and Republican consulting firm DCI targeted 17 GOP senators in a campaign to build opposition to a tough regulatory bill. The campaign began shortly after the Senate Banking Committee sent the measure to ...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse.
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
The senators were Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Christopher "Kit" Bond and Jim Talent of Missouri, Conrad Burns of Montana, Mike DeWine of Ohio, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Olympia Snowe of Maine, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, George Allen of Virginia, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Mike Crapo of Idaho, Jim Bunning of Kentucky, Larry Craig of Idaho, John Ensign of Nevada, Lindsey Graham of South...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
For more than two years, U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan has been consumed by the latest entry on his resume: acting chief of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
By Associated Press BOISE, Idaho -- A massive public lands bill scheduled for a vote in Congress next month would add more than 300 miles of rivers and streams in southwestern Idaho to the nation's Wild and Scenic river protection system. Republican U.S. Sen.
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Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
I thought that he might be feted with toe tapping, but Senate colleague Mike Crapo paid tribute to Larry Craig (who is retiring in January) with a speech . You have to read it to believe it. No shame, no blame in the annals of Republican Sexual Hypocrisy: "As the 110th Congress comes to a close this fall, a chapter in Idaho politics also comes to a close. After serving in public office, first in the...
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Towleroad (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Montana woman files appeal over historic Montana same-sex partner custody ruling. Where did Charlie go when he was young? Tuna kindergarten. Interested in what Shrek the Musical sounds like? Download a free tune. Gold-winning gay Aussie Olympian hires "the man...
