James Jeffords (Former Sen. - I-VT) Newsletter
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Time Capsule: Our Dick Cheney Obituary … From 2012
05 Nov 2025 05:03 GMT
… VP hopefuls — including GOP Senate leaders like Jon Kyl and … small group of moderate GOP senators who wanted to scale … that in a narrowly divided Senate negotiation amounted to surrender. … Jim Jeffords out of the party, and tossed control of the Senate …
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Emerge Vermont Has Helped Dozens of Women — All Dems — Get Elected
29 Oct 2025 16:03 GMT
… trainings; two members, Krowinski and Sen. Ruth Hardy (D-Addison), … have been no GOP women senators since 2018, when the … called on Krowinski and Senate Majority Leader Kesha Ram Hinsdale … U.S. representative and then senator Jim Jeffords in the 1980s.
Once …
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From the archives – scenes of summer and a visit from U.S. Rep. Jim Jeffords
17 Jul 2024 21:48 GMT
… more about her.
Then-candidate Jim Jeffords can also be seen paying … of two of Vermont’s senators later in his career. ( … a committee assistant to the Senate Committee of the Judiciary for … have memories of Jeffords as senator, or Lucenti working in Montpelier …
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THE WAVE OF POLITICAL DEFECTIONS
26 Oct 2025 03:19 GMT
… States, notable figures such as Senator Jim Jeffords once defected from the Republican … the National Assembly, four PDP senators, Francis Fadahunsi, Olubiyi Fadeyi, Aniekan … majority in the Senate to 72 members. Earlier, three senators from Kebbi …
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I miss Liberal-Republicans: An old Vermont political tradition
23 Oct 2025 10:49 GMT
… green politics” was coined. Sen. Aiken promoted the preservation … .S. forest policy. Sen. Stafford was well known … declarations and their procedures. Senator Jim Jeffords also contributed by pushing … in the 2022 Vermont Senate elections, where MAGA conservative …
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Bernie Sanders tells Politico that next U.S. Senate term will ‘probably’ be his last
11 Dec 2024 19:54 GMT
Incumbent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, … ’s senior U.S. senator shared new insight this week … became chair of the powerful Senate Committee on Health, Education, … the late Sen. Jim Jeffords, I-Vt., who represented Vermont in the Senate for …
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The End of the Line for Red State Senate Democrats By Kyle Kondik
05 Dec 2024 13:12 GMT
… all 100 senators as someone who continues to hold a Senate seat … , as Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont—Sanders’s predecessor in the Senate—switched from … .
Table 1: Number of Democratic senators in states that only voted …
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South Dakota’s Thune got to the Senate the hard way | Dick Wadhams
18 Nov 2024 12:09 GMT
… became Senate Majority Leader in 2001 when Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords of … 1998 after unseating a Republican senator in 1986. But 2004 looked … when U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater unseated Senate Democratic Leader Ernest McFarland …
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Who's in charge: The muddy history of the 50-50 Senate
28 Oct 2024 21:43 GMT
… interesting infighting and resignations of senators which explains the political machinations … Minority Leader. Republicans would chair Senate committees. But membership by … short-lived. By springtime, late Sen. Jim Jeffords, I-Vt., dropped his membership …
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U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson, undefeated in politics, dies nearly decade after leaving office
09 Oct 2024 16:27 GMT
… opportunity for compromise when senators and representatives socialized together … in the U.S. Senate. Johnson had little statewide … most expensive and longest Senate campaign in South Dakota … had convinced Vermont Republican Sen. Jim Jeffords to leave the GOP …