Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News After Great Hopes for New Congress, Reality Falls Short
For years, Senator Dianne Feinstein has earned failing grades from the National Rifle Association and the American Conservative Union. But when the California Democrat unexpectedly helped her Republican colleagues approve a controversial judicial nominee last week, she gained a new, somewhat more unlikely, adversary: liberal advocate Sammie Moshenberg. “I don’t know what she was thinking,”…
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News Prescription for Health Care: Dr. Kagen Is In (And Wants You to Know It)
Rep. Steve Kagen of Wisconsin – a doctor who focused on health care during his 2006 run against Republican Assembly Speaker John Gard – is blogging about the issue on TPMCafe this week. Since taking office, Kagen seems to have styled himself as something of a Democratic Bill Frist. (Announcing on Daily Kos, for example,…
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News McCain Vows To Soldier On
Conventional wisdom holds that John McCain’s presidential campaign is all but down for the count. But the Arizona senator is still holding on — he placed third among Republican primary voters, according to a July Gallup poll — and in a recent one-on-one interview with the Forward, he held forth energetically on everything from Iraq…
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News Obama, Clinton Battle for Endorsements
In the wake of an unexpected scuffle during last Monday’s CNN/YouTube debate, presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama waged a pitched battle over endorsements from Jewish members of Congress. During the televised forum, the Democratic contenders disagreed sharply over whether the next president should commit, without precondition, to holding talks with leaders of such…
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News Who’s Up, Who’s Down: Foreign Policy on the Campaign Trail
Everywhere we turned this week, presidential contenders were working to score public relations points with posturing on foreign policy. Here’s the quick summary, along with some verdicts about whether they came out ahead or behind in the image game: Barack Obama was branded as “irresponsible” by Pakistan’s foreign minister after saying that, as president, he…
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News Got Jew? Hillary and Barack Sign Up Jewish Lawmakers
Several days after Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, tussled publicly over whether to hold direct talks with the leaders of Iran and Syria, they both seem particularly eager to show support from Jewish members of Congress. Clinton announced the endorsement of Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California yesterday. Meanwhile, Obama announced that Rep. Paul Hodes, a…
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News Feinstein for Hillary
Here’s the press release sent out by the Clinton campaign this afternoon: California Senator Dianne Feinstein Endorses Hillary Clinton The Clinton Campaign announced today the endorsement of California senior Senator Dianne Feinstein, demonstrating Hillary’s growing support in the Golden State. “This is a very special moment for me because I have the opportunity to endorse…
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News Freshmen Lead Record-Breaking Dem Fundraising
As the GOP mounts its campaign to recapture seats in Congress in 2008, the unusually large class of first-term Jewish Democrats is showing fundraising mettle in swing districts likely to be top Republican targets. Rep. Ron Klein, a lawmaker from Florida’s 22nd congressional district, raised nearly $1.3 million in the first half of 2007, the…
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