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Sawyer interviews women senators, to air Jan. 3
With a record-breaking 20 female senators elected to serve in the next Congress, ABC News' Diane Sawyer gathered 19 of them for an interview that will ...
New Faces: Newly elected US senators
A look at the newly elected U.S. senators from Tuesday's election: ARIZONA Republican Jeff Flake, the congressman who won Arizona's open U.S.
More Democratic Congress still a house divided
The new Congress will be slightly more Democratic and more female though House Republicans still hold a majority large enough to confront and confound ...
Democrat Heitkamp wins Senate race in North Dakota
Democratic candidate Heidi Heitkamp has won the U.S. Senate race in North Dakota, defeating Republican Rep. Rick Berg. Heitkamp won the race by fewer ...
GOP pursues last chances to upend Senate Dems
Republicans vigorously pursued their last, longshot chances for taking control of the Senate — Pennsylvania topped their list — as Democrats remained ...
Romney and Obama pop up in latest GOP Senate ads
A resurgent Mitt Romney is popping up more in other Republican candidates' ads as both parties press their closing arguments in closely contested ...
New England shapes up as Dem firewall for Senate
Democrats are counting on their New England friends to help them pick up Republican-held Senate seats on Nov. 6 and construct a barrier against losses ...
North Dakota race comes down to ticket-splitters
Dwight Thompson is a solid conservative businessman who will be voting for a Republican for president and a Democrat for Senate. He's a ...
Big cash spent in AZ, PA, MA Senate race reports
Republican candidates for the Senate in conservative-leaning states generally outraised their Democratic opponents in the latest fundraising quarter ...
Voter ticket-splitting could determine next Senate
The close race for majority control of the Senate comes down to whether Republican candidates in Massachusetts and Connecticut can win over President ...
Senate race ads focus on Medicare, Obamacare, debt
For critical Senate races, Republicans are turning to the playbook that served them so well in the 2010 elections. They're saturating the airwaves ...
Chamber launches voter mobilization effort
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has spent tens of millions of dollars on television ads to help boost Republican congressional candidates, ...
ND Senate: Booming economy, close race
Off a dirt road a mile-and-a-half from the nearest town, Democratic Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp is standing in the loft of a barn, giving a ...
Farm-state lawmakers returning home empty-handed
Farm-state members of Congress have campaigned for decades on the back of farm bills delivering election-season subsidies and other goodies to rural ...
Senate race gives ND a taste of intense politics
Hustling to finish his wheat harvest, farmer Mark Nesheim was repairing his combine recently when his cellphone rang. The caller wanted to know if ...
Missouri woes are latest for GOP in Senate quest
It's not just Todd Akin. The fallout from the Missouri Senate candidate's "legitimate rape" comment was the latest signal that the Republican path to ...
Some Dems still skittish on health care; GOP riled
Victory at the Supreme Court for President Barack Obama and Democrats on health care is reopening political divisions within the party over the ...
GOP plots 2013 strategy on health care repeal
Turned away at the Supreme Court, congressional Republicans sketched a strategy Friday to repeal the nation's health care law in 2013 that requires ...