Chafee's candidacy seems targeted almost directly at Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy record – the Democratic equivalent of those conservative hawks who sought to enter the Republican primary solely to excoriate Rand Paul on the debate stage.
Those powers expired with key provisions of the Patriot Act at 12.01am on Monday amid a showdown between defense hawks and civil liberties advocates.
Congressional staff involved in refining the USA Freedom Act since it last passed the House by 303 votes to 121 in May 2014 believe various revisions since have made the bill palatable enough to security hawks in the Senate, though expect possible amendments in the days ahead.
Over in the House, legislative aides denied that surveillance hawks could cobble together the necessary 218 votes to give the Patriot Act's key surveillance provision a short-term extension that has become McConnell's fallback gambit.
Fremantle's narrow home win against Port Adelaide was, if anything, slightly better than we'd hoped and Monday's Hawthorn-Geelong blockbuster started as expected - a claustrophobic, high-intensity shoot-out - before the Hawks unlocked their turbo-mode capabilities and killed it off as a contest.
A little bit of more positive activity data would also help the Fed hawks.
Graham is also one of the leading defense hawks in Congress and, according to Hewitt, will be Rubio's biggest obstacle to winning over primary voters in South Carolina - a state with a heavy military presence and significant veteran population.
The $8m request raised the eyebrows of some budget hawks.
Kennedy was cool-headed, faced down Washington's hawks and showed great creativity, and even empathy, in his dealings with Nikita Krushchev.
Conservative north European fiscal hawks, supported by Germany, have key vice-presidential posts in charge of the single currency zone.
But minutes of the rate-setting MPC's January meeting showed that Martin Weale and Ian McCafferty, the two hawks who voted for an increase every month from August to November, instead joined the unanimous vote for no change.
