WAUSAU -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson portrayed himself as a citizen legislator, focused on removing career politicians with minimal background in private industry.

The defeat of Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski by an upstart fiscal conservative in Alaska's GOP primary could mark a significant shift for a state that has so long relied on federal pork to survive. The outcome was also an unexpected blow to the seniority Alaska has enjoyed in the Senate.

By TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER Memo to Ohio voters: Expect to hear the name of President George W. Bush a lot in the campaign for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat. Not from Republican Rob Portman, who worked for President Bush as budget director and trade representative, but rather from Lee Fisher, the Democratic nominee for the seat now held by Republican U.S. Sen. George Voinovich. The loss of ...

It will be a three-way race for the late Robert C. Byrd’s U.S. Senate seat in November as voters decided to pit Democrat Gov. Joe Manchin against Republican John Raese and Mountain Party’s Jesse Johnson.

Sixteen U.S. senators, including the Agriculture Committee's top Democrat and Republican, sent the U.S. Department of Agriculture a letter on July 2 scolding it for proposing $6 billion in cuts to crop insurance. This letter comes the same week that Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) voiced support for increasing and improving crop insurance coverage at the Committee's ...