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PARTY FAVOR: Sen. John Kerry wants Hillary Clinton to keep an eye on the GOP's convention. - Reuters Email Archives Print Reprint August 23, 2004 -- JOHN KERRY'S presi dential campaign, which slighted Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Democratic convention last month, now wants the former first lady to lead its "truth squad" at next week's GOP convention, The Post has learned. Party insiders said that aides to Clinton were engaged in "intensive talks" over the weekend with Kerry's representatives about the role she is expected to play. "It will be high profile; she will be one of the...

NEW YORK - In the various reports today, Howard Mills - the Republican running for U.S. Senate seat of Charles Schumer, scored a victory on substance in his effort to oust the senator. In documents turned over to the the media, Mills reveals that on 603 seperate instances Schumer chartered private planes to take him - and all of it was on the tax-payer's dime. Schumer spent in excess of $409,000 in doing so - all from the public coffers. In Illinois sources weighed in confirming that it is customary as well as financially responsible for Senator Peter Fitzgerald to...

Howard Mills does not have much money, or support, or, for that matter, basic name recognition in his bid to unseat United States Senator Charles E. Schumer. But Mr. Mills did manage to land a blow in his long-shot bid this week. Mr. Mills's staff pored over documents and maps and found that during his years in office, Mr. Schumer chartered private planes 603 times, spending $409,253 of taxpayer money. They asserted that they had caught the senator using tax dollars to fly around the state to raise campaign cash, which would be illegal, and turned their findings over to...

O'Grady Announces Conservative Party Bid for U.S. Senate Against Schumer Date: Wednesday, April 21 @ 15:13:18 EDT Topic: Views & Opinions State Senatorial Candidate Dr. Marilyn O'Grady ~~~ "A Senate Seat is A Terrible Thing to Waste" - O'Grady ~~~ The Choice for Conservative Ideas and Traditional Values GARDEN CITY, NY -- April 21, 2004 -- Declaring "a Senate seat is a terrible thing to waste," Dr. Marilyn O'Grady of Garden City, Long Island today formally announced her Conservative Party campaign for U. S. Senate against Democrat Chuck Schumer. "Schumer's rated one of Washington's most taxing liberals," Dr. O'Grady said,...

(New York-AP) -- A little-known Republican state assemblyman is making his first, albeit unusual, campaign promise in his pledge to unseat Senator Charles Schumer. Assemblyman Howard Mills vowed to plant 25 trees to replace the paper Schumer uses for his press releases. Mills accused Schumer of killing 25 trees to issue 765 announcements, many issued on Sunday, a traditionally slow news day. The Orange County assemblyman promised not only to not waste paper, but also to not waste the press's time on Sundays for what he called ``empty'' press conferences. Posing with 25 pine saplings that he said his campaign...

<p>For two years, Federal District Court Judge Charles Pickering, a Mississippi Republican, has suffered continuous character assassination by Senate Democrats who have filibustered his nomination by President Bush to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. He is on that bench now only because of a temporary recess appointment.</p>

<p>I have seldom seen a more sustained, damaging campaign of character assassination than the attacks on federal Judge Charles Pickering by Senate Democrats and such groups as People for the American Way and the Alliance for Justice. His nomination to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals by the president has been filibustered by the Democrats, and he is now on that bench temporarily through a recess appointment.</p>

Jan. 28, 2004--Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a non-profit legal watchdog group, sent a letter to President Bush asking that he call upon the White House Counsel to investigate Vice President Cheney's confirmation of leaked classified information in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News on January 9, 2004. Federal law prohibits leaking classified information. Confirming information that has already been leaked is also prohibited. In his Jan. 9th interview, Mr. Cheney referred his interviewer to a story that appeared in The Weekly Standard's November 24, 2003 issue. The story, written by Stephen F. Hayes, discussed...

NBC and MSNBC Allowed No Pro-Bush Mourners to Express Their Feelings About Condi Testimony Who are the most important judges of the investigation of what went wrong before September 11? The media elite have provided one consistent answer on who is in the political driver’s seat: the relatives of the victims. But not all of them. In recent weeks, the networks have interviewed a selected set of 9-11 widows and other relatives, and most have focused the lion’s share of their outrage at the Bush administration. Viewers at home might assume that a poll of 9-11 families would find they...

State Republican leaders announced yesterday that they would back a little-known assemblyman, Howard Mills, with six years experience in the State Legislature, as their candidate to challenge Senator Charles E. Schumer in the fall. For months Republicans had been sweating over whether they could come up with a credible candidate to face Mr. Schumer, a popular first-term senator with more than $20 million in his campaign war chest. Many higher profile Republicans had already opted out. About a week ago, however, Mr. Mills, 39, said he decided that he wanted to run and party leaders jumped at his offer, according...

<p>WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The New York Assembly's deputy GOP leader says he will run against Democratic U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer in the November election.</p> <p>Howard Mills, who represents a district in Orange County, N.Y., said Wednesday: "I think I can win. We're going to be talking about Sen. Schumer's record, and that he hasn't delivered in New York. He's focused on press conferences on Sunday and not delivering on Monday."</p>

The Hatch problem. President Bush's recess appointment of Judge Charles Pickering to the Fifth Circuit follows a string of other actions that make it clear: When it comes to the judge battle, the gloves are off. Unfortunately, Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch hasn't gotten the memo. Hatch's politeness and charity towards his Democratic colleagues on the Judiciary Committee, often the source of frustration for conservatives in Washington, is now acutely damaging to the struggle to get conservative judges onto the federal bench. Specifically, Hatch's eagerness to comply with the Democratic witch-hunt — cooked up to draw attention away from embarrassing memos...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) claimed a victory in the battle over President Bush's judicial nominees when Miguel Estrada asked that his name be withdrawn from consideration. The New York senator was emboldened by the event and said that the Democrats will continue to block judges who are "far beyond the mainstream and refuse to answer questions." Schumer used his membership on the Senate Judiciary Committee to block nominees when Democrats were in the majority in 2001 and has led unprecedented filibusters of lower court nominees since his party was relegated to the minority following...

<p>On July 17, Republican Sens. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana and Charles Schumer of New York, co-signed a letter asking Treasury Secretary John Snow to investigate whether China is manipulating its currency to gain a trade advantage in the American market. The day before, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan had warned China on the same issue while testifying before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.</p>

They Said It Considering the treatment President Bush's judicial nominees have received from Senate Democrats, I thought you might find it interesting to read what they had to say about the Senate's constitutional duty of "advice and consent" concerning judicial nominations when their president was making nominations. You may have seen these in my daily First Look column this week, but here they are again, for good measure. --Sen. Patrick Leahy (D.-Vt.): I hope we will have a chance to vote on them, not just in committee . . . but on the floor of the Senate. That is what...

New York Republicans close to Gov. George Pataki have approached Manhattan businesswoman Georgette Mosbacher, ex-wife of former Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher, as a possible candidate against Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer next year. The approach came to light when Mosbacher contacted friends for help in framing her response. While active in Republican fund-raising, Mosbacher has never been a candidate or held public office. With her net worth estimated at more than $250 million, she might be able to finance her own campaign. Mosbacher's last political activity was in 2000 when she endorsed Sen. John McCain for the Republican nomination. Her...

Filed at 6:27 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Midwestern U.S. senators asked the Federal Trade Commission on Friday to investigate the region's soaring gasoline prices and whether consumers are being gouged at the pump. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline is up 54 cents a gallon from a year ago and the seventh highest on record at $1.66 a gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Department. Fuel costs are up even more in the Midwest, where Senators Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and Mike DeWine, Republican of Ohio want to know if oil companies are trying to...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 — House and Senate negotiators said today that efforts to pass a bill that would clean up the nation's voting procedures were falling apart as partisan disagreements grew with the approach of the fall elections. Large bipartisan majorities of the House and the Senate voted for different versions of the legislation, intended to prevent ballot disputes like those that bedeviled the 2000 presidential election. Among other things, the bills would provide money to help states buy new voting machines. Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri, an architect of the Senate measure, said the outlook for enactment...

WASHINGTON, April 6 — Neither the White House nor Senate Democrats are giving any quarter in their battle over what kind of judges should sit on the federal bench, and officials on both sides say they expect more confirmation fights in the months ahead. The first confrontation could be over any of several conservative nominees. One possibility, both sides say, is President Bush's declared choice of Priscilla Owen, a conservative justice on the Texas Supreme Court, for a federal appeals court post. Justice Owen is an opponent of abortion rights for minors without their parents' permission. The Democrats on the...