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OVER THE LAST few months, I have joined you in taking the opportunity to meet the candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination, to learn about their positions on the issues, to meet their families, and to examine their records. This is a critical election that will determine the future course of our country. When evaluating a candidate, we must take into account the full breadth of their experience, vision and values. What I have found is that Mitt Romney is the leader we need in Washington. Our country needs Romney's experience in Washington. Throughout his career, he has taken...

Monday, Oct 29, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kevin Madden (857) 288-6390Boston, MA – Today, Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) announced his endorsement of Governor Mitt Romney for President of the United States. Senator Gregg is New Hampshire's Senior Senator, and in 2004, he received the highest number of votes in any election in the state's history. He will be joining Governor Romney as he campaigns throughout New Hampshire today and in the coming weeks and months. "I am proud to stand alongside Governor Romney as he campaigns to build a stronger America. For months, the people of New Hampshire have...

The Republican rebellion against the war in Iraq widened over the weekend as more of the party’s senators voiced dissent against President George W. Bush’s strategy. Republican unity on Iraq has shattered in recent weeks, amid mounting pessimism about the ability of US forces to bring stability to the country. Weakening Republican support for the war has left Mr Bush looking increasingly isolated as Congressional Democrats prepare for a fresh barrage of votes aimed at forcing a US withdrawal from Iraq. Three Republican senators have joined the calls for a change of course in Iraq in recent days, adding to...

JOHN Sununu has reason to be irritated and concerned. Last week, television stations in his home state of New Hampshire began showing advertisements attacking the senator, nearly two full years before he is up for re-election next November.Sununu's crime was to play a part in preventing the US Senate from debating a resolution that would have expressed disapproval of President George Bush's plan to deploy five more brigades of troops to Iraq. The senator, who like the rest of his Republican colleagues has long been a reliable supporter of the president, faces a key test: repudiate his past backing for...

"...Whether you agree with the President or whether you disagree with the President. Whether you support a commitment of more troops or you don't support a commitment of more troops. Once those troops are on the ground in the fight, we're going to give them the financial support, the logistical support the equipment that they need in order to protect themselves and pursue their mission effectively. You don't have to support the President to support this language. It's not language which is designed to say the President is right or the President is wrong. It's simply language which is designed...

WASHINGTON -- Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire yesterday used his last major floor speech as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to blast his own party's leadership in Congress, accusing Republican leaders of engaging in the type of fiscal recklessness that he said led voters to oust the GOP from power. Gregg, who will give up the Budget Committee gavel when his party relinquishes control of Congress in January, issued his unusually harsh critique in reference to a sweeping tax-cut bill that Republicans were rushing through in the final hours of the congressional session. "The American people took the...

BOUNTIFUL - When Gregg Revell packed his bags for a trip to Pennsylvania last April, he had no idea how far he'd be traveling. Before the week was out, the 57-year-old suburban real estate agent and grandfather would be arrested, thrown into one of the country's most notorious jails, strip searched and inoculated against his will. The soft-spoken Utah native would be on his way to becoming a poster child for the National Rifle Association in a $3 million lawsuit. During a nearly five-day stay in a Newark, N.J., jail, he would meet a terrifying side of America that most...

Washington, D.C. — Count New Hampshire Sens. John Sununu and Judd Gregg among those supporting Judge Samuel Alito’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. “He understands the law and the Constitution extremely well, and I think one of the abilities he showed was to clearly describe how he ruled, why he ruled, and what factors were critical to particular cases,” said Sununu, a Republican, who met with Alito yesterday. “That’s an indication that his service on the court and his view of the Constitution is rooted in principle.” Gregg, also a Republican, said that throughout the entire nomination process and...

Manchester — President Bush has divided the country, mismanaged the war in Iraq and was irresponsible in not sufficiently equipping American troops, potential White House hopeful Evan Bayh told a partisan Democratic crowd Saturday night. “It’s painfully obvious that those in charge in Washington today don’t have a clue,” the Indiana senator said during a sold-out state party fundraiser at the Radisson at the Center of New Hampshire. Bayh mixed in his achievements as governor of Indiana before entering the Senate, singled out a slew of local and state officials and made his biggest target the White House. “It’s been...

Sep 14, 8:16 PM EDT Gregg proposes oversight of Katrina funds WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., is crafting a proposal to ensure the federal money intended to help those devastated by Hurricane Katrina is well spent. In a letter to his fellow senators, Gregg said he wants to create an oversight authority that would act as a clearinghouse for how all federal money is spent on reconstruction in the Gulf Coast region. "In the wake of the catastrophic disaster of Hurricane Katrina, we must now look ahead to ensure that the massive amount of federal dollars are being...

Ex-CNN president arrives in North Korea SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- Former CNN President Ted Turner arrived in North Korea Saturday, heading a 10-member delegation that included a U.S. congressman, the North's media reported. Turner flew to the North's capital, Pyongyang, with Curt Weldon, a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, and former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg, the Korean Central News Agency said in a brief report. The group is scheduled to visit South Korea Aug. 15-18. Their itinerary in South Korea includes a meeting with former President and Nobel peace laureate Kim Dae-jung. The KCNA report gave...

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 1st Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate Vote Summary Question: On the Amendment (Ensign Amdt. No. 1219 ) Vote Number: 179 Vote Date: July 14, 2005, 10:04 AM Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Amendment Rejected Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 1219 to S.Amdt. 1124 to H.R. 2360 (Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act ) Statement of Purpose: Of a perfecting nature. Vote Counts: YEAs 38 NAYs 60 Not Voting 2 Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By...

I will try to find the entire speech later, but I wanted to pass this amazing fact just announced on the floor of the Senate by Judd Gregg: In 2001, the U.S. had, on hand, 9,000 smallpox vaccines. Today, after the work of this Congress and administration, the U.S. has 300,000,000. No, that is NO misprint: from 9,000 to 300 Million. And some assert this President hasn't done his job in fighting the War on Terror at home.

North Korea may be rattling its nuclear sword and threatening the U.S. and its allies, but former U.S. ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg blames deteriorating relations on President Bush. Gregg says Bush has a personal dislike for the North Korean dictator Kim Jong il -- an animosity that has skewed U.S. policy creating a crisis in the region. Story Continues Below For sure, the criticism is coming from an unexpected source. Gregg is a former advisor to the first President Bush, an ex-CIA official who served as chief of station for the CIA in South Korea from 1973 to...

Aid workers tending to the ravaged islands and coastlines of southern Asia say a big concern is an outbreak of malaria and other waterborne diseases.... Which reminds us of a just-out World Health Organization report anticipating a shortage in a key antimalarial drug.... This news about treatments wouldn't be so devastating but for the fact that the international groups in charge still can't get malaria prevention under control. And that's the real tragedy. A blight that has been all but eliminated in the West, malaria still claims between one million and two million lives every year in the underdeveloped world....

America's flu vaccine shortage has become a campaign issue, with Sen, John Kerry blaming President Bush for failing to take steps to assure a reliable supply of shots this year. That's a typical Kerry tactic: Blame the president for a problem he's been trying to solve — and which Kerry and other politicians created.... The answer is that Congress decided 10 years ago to have the government buy up most of the vaccines at fixed, below-market prices. The Vaccines for Children Program, established by the Clinton administration and a Democratic Congress in 1994, federalized much of the once-private U.S. market...

Former U.S. Ambassador to Korea Secretly Visits N. Korea Japan's Mainichi Shimbun reported in a Washington dispatch on Thursday that former U.S. Ambassador to Korea Donald Gregg secretly visited North Korea last week. According to the paper, in response to its request to confirm his visit to the North, Gregg said, “I do not want to talk about my visit to the North,” but foreign officials have raised the possibility that he may have met with key North Korean leaders and been asked to convey the North’s messages concerning six-way talks to the U.S. The paper also said that Gregg...

Official: Kerry failed to act on pre-9/11 tip 3rd agent to say he warned security lapses made Boston airport ripe for 'jihad' attack WASHINGTON - A third federal aviation-security agent, one still with the government, has stepped forward to say he also warned Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry about security lapses at Boston's Logan International Airport before the 9/11 hijackings there. Earlier this week, two former FAA agents said the Democratic presidential hopeful failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his home airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings. Brian Sullivan, a retired special agent from...

Former Firefighter Sentenced to 10 Years for Igniting What Became Arizona's Largest Wildfire Mar 8, 2004 By Anabelle Garay/ Associated Press Writer PHOENIX (AP) - A former firefighter who admitted igniting what became the biggest wildfire in Arizona history was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison. Leonard Gregg, who told authorities he was trying to make work for himself, pleaded guilty Oct. 20 in federal court to two counts of intentionally setting a fire. Gregg, 31, made no plea agreement and was given the maximum prison sentence. He was also ordered to pay $27 million in restitution. The fire...

Nov. 10 – It’s not exactly the way New Hampshire voters are accustomed to doing it, but it appears likely they will personally see more of President Bush during the general election than in the primary campaign, according to a top strategist of Bush’s re-election campaign. Matthew Dowd, the senior strategist for Bush-Cheney 2004, said in an interview with PoliticsNH.com that New Hampshire was a among a half-dozen or so top-tier targeted states by the re-election campaign. Thus, while Dowd suggested Bush could visit the state again before January’s presidential primary, Bush would very likely campaign harder for Granite State...