The National Republican Senatorial Committee is targeting newly sworn-in Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) for voting today to keep Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in his position as majority leader. The NRSC painted Reid as an “anti-coal” lawmaker who “strongly supports a job-killing cap-and-trade energy tax and has repeatedly attacked West Virginia’s More…
Here’s a quick recap of the midterm results from last night that have implications for energy/climate/environmental policy.
It was mostly bad news for House Democrats who voted for the chamber’s cap-and-trade bill. The two most stinging defeats were Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), who worked furiously behind the scenes to More…
Pundits may differ over which natural disaster analogy was most fitting — tidal wave or earthquake? — but Republicans made large gains in both chambers of Congress and various statehouses across the country on election day. And while, at the time of writing, races in several key Western states were More…
Pollsters are revising their estimates up for the number of seats that Democrats will lose in the House, but in the Senate Dems look like they’re sitting pretty. With Gov. Joe Manchin (D) and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) locking down their victories, Democrats can now breathe easy about their More…
Two other big results for the energy/climate crowd.
First, Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is projected to beat Republican John Raese in the West Virginia Senate race. Manchin campaigned heavily against cap-and-trade. In fact, in a now-infamous campaign ad, he actually shot the House climate bill.
Second, projections indicate that More…
With the Senate race in West Virginia between sitting Gov. Joe Manchin (D) and businessman John Raese in a virtual dead heat going into the final week, Manchin’s camp is touting an article in Sunday’s Charleston Gazette which calculates that Raese’s corporation, Greer Industries, benefited from about $32 More…
During the U.S. Senate debate in Morgantown, W.Va., last night, Republican John Raese’s campaign kept me faithfully updated with emails pairing Gov. Joe Manchin’s (D) latest “rhetoric” with the “reality” of his past stances on various issues.
The emails told me that last night Manchin said “[Obama] is dead wrong More…
This ad, sponsored by Gov. Joe Manchin (D) in his suddenly tight Senate race in West Virginia, should most likely put to rest questions raised by his opponent, businessman John Raese (R), about whether Manchin sufficiently hates the Obama’s administration’s cap-and-trade proposal. It also represents a rare twofer, in More…
The local media in West Virginia are having a hard time stomaching the campaign ads (and national news coverage) of the suddenly competitive Senate race in their home state. Governor Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) might be a lot of things, they argue, but he’s no enemy of the coal industry More…
Democrats have punted, at least for now, on voting on the Bush tax cuts. Rather than forcing moderate Democratic members to OK a tax increase for wealthy Americans, leadership will call a vote during the lame-duck session. After the Nov. 2 election, they also need to take up a reauthorization More…
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