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Clash of the news releases

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Who says political parties don't have any creativity left? (Well, I do, but that's beside the point.) I did thoroughly enjoy the dueling news releases this evening over the vote on the Republican backed "cut, cap and balance" bill that came before the House today. The bill aimed to

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Georgiou fights back against Reid

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Byron Georgiou, the "other" Democratic candidate in the race for U.S. Senate next year, fired back after being slammed by an aide to U.S. Sen. Harry Reid in a story in the Las Vegas Sun this morning.The piece raises ethical questions about Georgiou based on tax liens and court

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Reid says Medicare vote bad for GOP

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has oh-so-helpfully scheduled a vote on the Republican budget plan proffered by Congressman Paul Ryan this evening. And Reid's got a warning for newly appointed U.S. Sen. Dean Heller: Voting for that budget may be hazardous to your career.Hey, you don't suppose that's why Reid's

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Heller gets Senate nod: The roundup

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

As everyone anticipated, Gov. Brian Sandoval today appointed Rep. Dean Heller to the Senate seat being vacated by incumbent John Ensign. The move not only will give Heller a leg up* in his bid to win the Senate seat for a full six-year term next November, but it will also

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Ensign quits: A roundup

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Editor's note: This post has been altered from its original version to correct an error.Scandal-plagued U.S. Sen. John Ensign today announced he'd be resigning from the Senate, effective May 3. In March, Ensign had told a Las Vegas news conference that he was not running for re-election in 2012, but

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Georgiou isn’t backing off

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

If anybody thought that attorney and Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission member Byron Georgiou was going to back out of the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate race because Rep. Shelley Berkley got in, think again. Georgiou released a statement today that makes it clear he's staying in the race.Here's the text:

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Berkley: Nobody will fight harder than me

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

CARSON CITY -- Rep. Shelley Berkley today said she made her decision to run for U.S. Senate because she wanted to bring her notorious work ethic to bear on problems such as job creation and home foreclosures."As you know, I've been contemplating this for a long time," said Berkley, shortly

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Berkley for Senate

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

After months of waiting, I'm hearing the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is preparing to announce today that it has its Senate candidate for Nevada, and that candidate is U.S.

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Heller out to save America

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

I got a nice email from Rep. Dean Heller today, asking for money and telling me we're pretty much screwed unless we elect him to the U.S. Senate. Sadly, the email comes just as I'm making my annual visit to my tax preparer (yes, my right-wing friends, I know; I'm

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Heller: My voice will be louder in the Senate

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

CARSON CITY -- Rep. Dean Heller said today he wants to run for John Ensign's Senate seat to advance his conservative philosophy in the upper house, and that he's not worried about potential primary opponents, including Sharron Angle.In a brief interview after sending an e-mail to supporters announcing his

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Ensign won’t run for re-election

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Well, that only took 614 days.Since June 16, 2009, when U.S. Sen. John  Ensign walked into the jury assembly room of the Lloyd George federal courthouse in Las Vegas to announce

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One man’s frugality is another’s ethics violation

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate whether members of Congress who sleep in their offices are receiving a benefit, i.e. free housing in an expensive market.Nevada's own U.S. Rep. Joe Heck said when he got

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Defiant Berkley holds office hours

Monday, January 10th, 2011

A defiant U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley said she will throw open her office doors to constituents from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday, a decision she made after the shooting of her good friend and fellow Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday in Tucson, Ariz."It kind of came to me last

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And they’re off!

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Just a couple days after I praised them for not running from one of the Democratic Party's biggest accomplishments in the past year -- health care reform -- Nevada's two Democratic congresswomen laced up the sneakers and took off like Flo Jo on another issue -- tax cuts. U.S. Reps.

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The end of Yucca as we know it?

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Yucca Mountain has been declared dead more often than Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Meyers and John Travola's

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