Article: Pat Toomey continues to make headway against liberal Republican senator Arlen Specter.(The Week)(Brief Article)

Article: Since when is it a crime for a Republican senator.(The Week)(Brief article)
National Review;  September 24, 2007 ;     11 words ...Since when is it a crime for a Republican senator to reach out to gays?

Article: Former Senator Bill Frist, MD, will not be charged with insider trading.
Transplant News;  May 1, 2007 ;     252 words ...Former Republican Senator and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, MD, will not be charged...the Post, Frist has issued statements of support for former Republican Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN), currently appearing in the long-running...

Article: Senator Says Y2K Granny Has Six Months to Live.
Computergram International;  August 5, 1999 ;     183 words ......before the Senate Banking Committee earlier this week, Republican Senator Phil Gramm had an unusual take on the issue. It seems...it now, it seems to me. At this point Robert Bennett, a Republican Senator from Utah, weighed in with a real-life example of the...

Article: Senior Republican loses bid to move trial
AP Worldstream;  August 20, 2008 ;     295 words ...A senior Republican senator lost a bid Wednesday to move his corruption trial from Washington...he received from an oil services contractor. The powerful Republican senator asked that the case be moved to Alaska, so it would not slow...

Article: Senator: FBI crossed the line in corruption probe
AP Worldstream;  August 14, 2008 ;     338 words ...A senior Republican senator accused the Justice Department on Thursday of trampling on...should be thrown out. Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican senator, is scheduled to go on trial next month on charges that he...

Article: The 1910s: Government and Politics: Deaths
American Decades;      680 words ......Nelson W. Aldrich, 73, conservative Republican senator from Rhode Island (1881-1911), coauthor...National Committee (1868, 1872), and Republican senator from New Hampshire (1889-1901), 30...69, railroad and mining magnate, Republican senator from West Virginia (1895-1911), and...

Article: Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator from Nebraska, wants to be president.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
National Review;  July 4, 2005 ;     81 words ...Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator from Nebraska, wants to be president. He has already established a name for himself in the party as a de facto opponent of the...

Article: Hatch still hazy on hate crimes.
The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine);  June 22, 1999 ;     216 words ......hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Republican senator Orrin Hatch, who sent mixed signals about his intentions...overdo the law, Hatch said. The legislation, sponsored by Republican senator Arlen Specter and Democratic senator Edward Kennedy, would...

Article: Republican senator to retire
AP Worldstream;  January 12, 2009 ;     135 words ...Two-term Republican senator George Voinovich of Ohio is telling associates he intends to retire rather than run again in 2010, according to officials inside...

Article: Republican senator on list for commerce post
AP Worldstream;  January 30, 2009 ;     136 words ...A Republican senator said Friday he's under consideration to become President Barack Obama's commerce secretary and is honored to be considered. Sen...

Article: Long-serving US senator indicted
AP Worldstream;  July 29, 2008 ;     626 words ...Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving U.S. Republican senator and a major figure in Alaska politics since before...Tuesday's indictment comes a year after another Republican senator, Larry Craig of Idaho, pleaded guilty to charges...

Article: Top Republican senator opposes automaker bailout
AP Worldstream;  November 16, 2008 ;     119 words ...A top Republican senator says he will fight a Democratic plan to bail out U.S. automakers. The opposition by Sen. Richard Shelby and other Republican lawmakers...

Article: Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas recently converted to Catholicism in a quiet ceremony. (People).(Brief Article)
The Christian Century;  July 31, 2002 ;     86 words ...* Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas recently converted to Catholicism in a quiet ceremony. Brownback, who has worked closely with Catholics...

Article: The toughest fight: Sen. John Sununu's travails in the Granite State.(CONGRESS)
National Review;  August 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ......will have to defeat John Sununu, a Republican senator from New Hampshire. Pollster.com...primary campaign against a sitting Republican senator, the erratic Bob Smith. He was again...demonstrates. Sununu was the first Republican senator to call for Alberto Gonzales to step...