Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) appears to have survived her tough primary runoff tonight against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter (D) in Arkansas’ Senate race. The Associated Press called the race for Lincoln, who led 52 to 48 percent with nearly 10 percent of precincts remaining to be counted Tuesday night.
Halter’s More…
Of the 532 sitting members of Congress, just 76 are female. But tonight, the hottest elections on tap feature female candidates regarded as major game changers in their states. In addition to a decisive Senate primary runoff in Arkansas, primary voters go to the polls tonight in a total of More…
The conference committee to merge the Senate and House financial regulatory reform bills begins on Thursday, but the negotiating has long been underway behind closed doors, with Republicans determining the measures they most wish to block and Democrats determining the measures they most wish to champion.
The point of greatest More…
Today, the Center for Responsive Politics and Public Citizen jointly released a mammoth report on the “small army” of former federal employees lobbying on financial regulatory reform. “Banking on Reform” finds that a whopping 1,447 former Hill or administration staffers are on the job.
Familiar names include former Senate More…
Republicans are working overtime today to make political hay out of Colorado Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff’s revelation that the White House suggested three jobs that might be open to him should he abandon a Democratic primary challenge to appointed Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) — following a similar unpaid job More…
It has been a quiet week on the financial regulatory reform front, but that does not mean the deal-making has stopped. With the House and Senate out of session this week, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) has been pushing his provision to reform the credit ratings agencies, and Sens. Jeff Merkley More…
To many Americans, the Memorial Day weekend signals the start of summer. For Senate election observers, it marks the onset of a season that will determine the fate of senators at risk of losing their jobs, and of outsiders looking to beat back party favorites. The summer Senate primaries kick More…
TWI’s Annie Lowrey makes another appearance on Bloggingheads.tv today, discussing all things financial with Rortybomb’s Mike Konczal: regulatory reform, Blanche Lincoln’s derivatives proposal, Fannie and Freddie and the economic impact of the oil spill. Check out the video after the jump:
Morning Money has posted a Goldman Sachs research report, and it seems the investment bank is spooked by just one thing in the financial regulatory reform bill: Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s (D-Ark.) derivatives spin-off language.
To the extent that strains in European sovereign debt and short-term money markets cause broader
This idea that voter discontent has left all incumbents vulnerable in November is a reporter’s dream. It’s clean. It’s easy. But is that really what happened yesterday in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Arkansas?
We reported last night that the picture is much more nuanced. And today, Roll Call’s John More…
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