The Huffington Post has an exclusive interview tonight with Florida Democratic powerhouse, former Senator Bob Graham.
As a celebrity senator and powerhouse on Capitol Hill, she had helped Mr. Obama in his Senate race and offered advice when he first came to Washington; now she was the workhorse for a political phenomenon.
Recently, I watched in awe as footage of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis's powerhouse filibuster live-streamed across my computer screen.
There were dozens of names in the Jeffrey category, including Ehud Barak, Alan Dershowitz, then Senator John Kerry, former senator and lobbyist George Mitchell, powerhouse DC lobbyist Thomas Quinn, and David Rockefeller.
It might have been more pleasurable going alone against Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, no powerhouse on the order of Mrs. Clinton.
The Senate declined to fast track a secretive trade agreement between the United States and Asian countries that has brought President Barack Obama into direct conflict with powerhouse members of his own party, including Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Written by Manny Garcia, the executive editor and general manager of El Nuevo Herald, and Marc Caputo, a reporter for the paper, it began: Days before Univision aired a controversial story this summer about the decades-old drug bust of Marco Rubio's brother-in-law, top staff with the Spanish-language media powerhouse offered what sounded like a deal to the U.S. senator's staff.
The story is similar in Ohio, where Josh Mandel, the state treasurer, a Marine Corps veteran and fund-raising powerhouse, is somewhat disadvantaged in his race against the incumbent Democrat, Senator Sherrod Brown, by the fact the he looks too young to shave, several party officials acknowledged.
Already such marquee names as former Senators George J. Mitchell and Bob Dole are employed by the lobbying powerhouse of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, which represents such giants as Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Brown & Williamson Tobacco.
Last year, the tribe spent more than $300,000 in reported fees to three lobbying firms: the powerhouse Akin Gump; Holland & Knight, where its lobbyists include Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a former senator and American Indian; and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, which represents many Indian nations and led the Senecas' side of the cigarette fight.
