The Associated Press reported today that Tom Tancredo is expected to end his presidential campaign Thursday, two weeks before the Jan. 3 Iowa Caucus.
Tancredo’s withdrawal is expected to come at what his campaign is saying will be a major announcement Thursday in Des Moines, according to the AP.
The Colorado Republican congressman’s opposition to […]

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WASHINGTON — Just how badly has the relationship between President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Reid soured?
Reid says he is again planning to hold the Senate in pro-forma session over the holiday break to stop Bush from making recess appointments while senators are away.
Democrats are worried Bush may appoint objectionable nominees, while leaving their own […]

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WASHINGTON — The coal plants proposed for White Pine County dodged a bullet Monday.
A provision sought by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to tighten air quality regulations in nearby Great Basin National Park was excluded from a final year-end bill going through Congress. Instead, Congress called for a study of the issue.
But Reid made his […]

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WASHINGTON— It’s not officially dead, but Yucca Mountain is facing a devastating funding cut in the new spending bill out this morning — a significant blow that the project director has said could cause him to miss the project’s crucial 2008 deadline.
Earlier this year I wrote about how we would know when the nuclear waste […]

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WASHINGTON — Don’t go looking for a chapter on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in fellow Sen. Trent Lott’s new book.
Lott was holding court in the halls outside the Senate earlier this week opining on the current gridlock that has overtaken Congress, when he went on a riff about the book he plans to write […]

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WASHINGTON — Fully one year after the Bush administration’s Justice Department fired Nevada’s Daniel Bogden in an unprecedented purge of U.S. Attorneys nationwide – leading to the fall of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales — the Senate has confirmed the state’s new top federal prosecutor.
Gregory A. Brower, a former Republican assemblyman in Nevada and one-time official […]

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With Iowa feeling the chill of freezing rain and Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigning on the West Coast, the Washington Post’s Dan Balz, stuck in Des Moines, muses about changing the entire nomination calendar — based on the weather.
Nevada and its Jan. 19 Democratic caucus gets a mention but, according to Balz, […]

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WASHINGTON — In case you missed it, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wasn’t the only one complaining last week about the difficulty of working with the Bush administration.
The feeling, apparently, is mutual.
Vice President Cheney was asked during an interview with reporters from Politico how it has been working with Reid this year. “Difficult,” the […]

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WASHINGTON — If ever there was a time for a Senate filibuster, MoveOn.org says, this would be it.
Today the liberal anti-war group plans to deliver petitions signed by more than 15,000 vets and families to the offices of the Democratic senators running for president (Biden, Clinton, Dodd, Obama) urging them to block any Senate vote […]

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The Los Angeles Times today revisits the U.S. attorneys, including Dan Bogden of Nevada, who were fired a year ago by then-Atty. General Alberto R. Gonzales.

A year later, most have landed on their feet, in law partnerships or private-sector jobs where their compensation dwarfs government pay. Some carry scars from the experience. Six of the […]

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