In the state Senate from 1996, Mr Obama proved to be an effective politician.
Laidig defended the education laws in the State Senate, which made him a target for Bachmann.
But Republicans in the state senate must be evaluating their own chances for survival at the moment.
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Once in the State Senate, Bachmann rallied Republicans against Profile of Learning, and the statute was eventually repealed.
So you heard that ad, how accurate a representation is that of Obama's time in the State Senate?
He's going to the celebration in the state senate just, where the Democrats did really well in November.
But the suburbs of Washington remained loyal to the Democrats, denying the Republicans a strong majority in the state Senate.
He's much more assertive, tracking down powerful fundraisers and people who could help him maneuver for key committee assignments in the state Senate.
And I think his record in the Senate and in the state Senate in Illinois is in bringing groups together to do that.
In 1968, he was elected to two terms in the Wyoming House of Representatives and in 1972 to one term in the state Senate.
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The effort to recall Republican state senators from Wisconsin may have led some moderates in the State Senate to reconsider their support of the bill.
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On Monday morning, Mr. Sampson was stripped of his ranking positions and committee assignments in the state senate, according to Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins.
After two years in the state Senate, she won the U.S. House seat held by William Cohen when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 1978.
The toughest obstacle, they say, will be in the state Senate, because a handful of senators can grind to a halt bills they do not like.
But a bill to facilitate the power line is now hotly contested and while it cleared one chamber, it is now tied up in the state senate.
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Shirley Huntley, who served in the state Senate from 2007 until her defeat in November, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
With a majority in the state senate and, in Rick Perry, the first Republican lieutenant-governor in Texan history, the party is well-set to push its agenda through.
Republican Governor Scott Walker signed the bill into law March 11, after Republicans used emergency-session rules to push the measure through even though they lacked a quorum in the state Senate.
In his political career, the former stock broker served two years on the Fort Thomas city council, four years in the state senate and 12 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.
His party is contesting a fifth of the races in the state House of Representatives and an eighth of the races in the state Senate, as well as a couple of congressional races.
Many of these Republicans, frankly, are going to recall as early as this summer, and if just three of them lose, the balance of power will switch to Democrats in the state Senate.
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Ms. Huntley allegedly saw "bags of cash" regularly exchanging hands in the state senate building, Ms. Butler said, and her family had been receiving threats since it became known she was cooperating with authorities.
But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform not even in the state Senate.
The President has a very long relationship with the Attorney General, dating back to their time in the State Senate, and has enormous respect for what she accomplished there and has as Attorney General.
Months before her failed re-election bid, Ms. Huntley had been arrested on state corruption charges following an investigation by the office of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, her onetime colleague in the state senate.
And Arpaio allies at the Legislature proposed retroactively adding a primary to recall races a move that would likely have benefited the sheriff but the measure was defeated last week in the state Senate.
That fall, in the remote western corner of the state, John Snow, a retired Democratic judge who had represented the district in the State Senate for three terms, found himself subjected to one political attack after another.
As his impeachment trial began in the state Senate on January 26th, Mr Blagojevich appealed to talk-show hosts, describing his innocence and jogging habits, and boasting that he had considered appointing Oprah Winfrey to the Senate seat.
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