Kyl on START negotiations
Washington (CNN) - CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jill Dougherty caught up with Sen. Jon Kyle, R-Arizona, as he walked to the Senate floor with Sen. John Kerry, D- Massachusetts. Asked about the...
View ArticleDemocrats Accuse GOP Senator of Breaking Pledge on Earmarks. True?
Washington (CNN) – Democratic Party officials are blasting out emails accusing the Senate's second ranking Republican of backtracking on his pledge not to seek earmarks, but a closer look by CNN shows...
View ArticleWhat will the Senate do now?
(CNN) - Senate leaders disagreed Sunday over if and when to ratify a new arms control treaty with Russia. Republican Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl said Congress has more urgent business to address than the New...
View ArticleTop GOP senator criticizes Obama on Egypt
Washington (CNN) - A top Senate Republican leader accused the Obama administration Monday of failing to promote democracy around the world with the same vigor of President George W. Bush, possibly...
View ArticleKyl to announce future plans
UPDATE: Kyle will announce he is retiring. Washington (CNN) – Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, will announce shortly whether he will retire from his seat, a source close to...
View ArticleKyl will retire
Washington (CNN) - Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, the second ranking Republican in the Senate, will not seek re-election for a 4th Senate term, according to two GOP sources familiar with his decision. Kyl is...
View ArticleCornyn will run for Republican Senate whip
Washington (CNN) - Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who oversees the campaign efforts on behalf of Senate Republicans, will run for GOP whip in the next Congress, a Cornyn aide confirms to CNN. "Let there be no...
View ArticleFlake to announce Senate bid
Washington (CNN) - Republican Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona will announce later Monday that he'll make a bid for the seat of retiring Sen. Jon Kyl, a GOP source confirms to CNN. The three-term Kyl, the...
View ArticleFlake to announce Senate bid
Washington (CNN) - Republican Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona Monday launched a bid for the seat of retiring Sen. Jon Kyl. "I'm announcing today that I'm a candidate for the US Senate," said the six-term...
View ArticleHill Hallways: Another Arizonan for Kyl's seat?
Washington (CNN)-Arizona Rep. Trent Franks told CNN he was "seriously considering" running for retiring Senator Jon Kyl's Senate seat. Asked if the decision by his House GOP colleague Rep. Jeff Flake...
View ArticlePolitical punches thrown at Obama over budget debate
Washington (CNN) - While Congress debates how to continue funding the government, the political debate Sunday centered on the president’s involvement in the negotiations. Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of...
View ArticleStephen Colbert's 'not factual' hashtagging
(CNN) - It was a remark seemingly made for late-night TV comics: Sen. Jon Kyl's claim that abortion is "well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does." When the actual figure turned out to be 3%, his...
View ArticleKey Republican pulls out of debt ceiling talks, negotiations on verge of...
Washington (CNN)-With only weeks to go before the country hits the debt ceiling, bipartisan negotiations were on the verge of collapsing as one of two Congressional Republicans walked away from the...
View ArticleKyl slams Reid debt proposal for counting war savings
Washington (CNN) - The No. 2 Senate Republican blasted the debt ceiling package unveiled Monday by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, saying its reliance on $1 trillion in savings from the winding down...
View ArticleDespite debt impasse, behind-the-scenes talks continue
Washington (CNN) - Even as the impasse over the debt ceiling continues, behind-the-scenes talks are underway between Democratic and Republican leaders about a bipartisan deal to end the crisis,...
View ArticleGOP lays out consequences of missing debt deadline
Washington (CNN) - With Congress and the White House still at odds on raising America’s debt ceiling, Republicans used their weekly address to illustrate the dire risks of missing next week’s deadline...
View ArticleSenate race heats up in Arizona
Washington (CNN) - Soon after Don Bivens launched his Arizona Senate bid Monday, the former Arizona Democratic Party Chairman took his first hit from GOP opponent Rep. Jeff Flake. "If the Democrats...
View ArticleSen. Kyl endorses Romney
(CNN) - Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl threw his support behind Mitt Romney, the candidate's campaign announced Friday. "After a long primary, it is time for the Republican Party to come together and...
View ArticleGOP senators hold comment on immigration policy, wait on Romney
Washington (CNN) - Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday he and most other Republican senators will hold off commenting on the merits of President Obama's new immigration policy until Mitt...
View ArticleRetiring lawmakers reflect on remaining challenges
(CNN) – When the new session of Congress begins in January, most of the faces on Capitol Hill will be the same – incumbents in both the House and the Senate overwhelmingly won re-election in November....
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