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Dean Heller
2018 midterms
Oct. 22, 2018
Dems Still Have a Good Shot at Flipping House, But Senate Is an Uphill Battle Fifteen days before the midterms, polls show the House going blue, but the GOP is likely to maintain Senate control, or even pick up a seat or two.
By Ed Kilgore
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 19, 2018
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
the kavanaugh confirmation
Sept. 17, 2018
Why the Clock Is Ticking on Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination If Brett Kavanaugh isn’t confirmed soon, Trump’s mission to reshape the Supreme Court could get dicier.
By Ed Kilgore
Bracing for a Supreme Court Retirement Bombshell At the end of the term, the focus is on Kennedy, whose retirement could ignite the Senate races. But Thomas’s exit might spark a battle in the GOP.
By Ed Kilgore
Primaries Set Up Big General-Election Battles From a wave of Democratic woman in Virginia to a shot at a GOP Senate seat in Nevada, the June 12 primaries set tables for a November banquet.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Could Get Even Trumpier in June 12 Primaries The primaries range from big gubernatorial fights in South Carolina and Nevada to open House races in Virginia to ranked-choice voting in Maine.
By Ed Kilgore
Looks Like Republicans Will Avoid a Special Election for McCain’s Seat GOP Governor Doug Ducey will name a successor to John McCain if he vacates his Senate seat, who will likely not face voters until 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
Vulnerable Democratic Senators Mostly Above Water; a Wave Could Keep Them There Approval ratio numbers for senators show a predictable erosion of support for Democrats running in red states. But they’re hanging in there.
By Ed Kilgore
Steve Bannon’s Dubious Plan to Purge Senate Republicans It’s hard to tell whether it’s just talk or a real threat.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Sept. 28, 2017
Trump, Roy Moore, and the Craven Surrender of the Republican Establishment “I wasn’t paying attention. I’m just worried about taxes”: a credo for the Republican Party.
By Jonathan Chait
Bipartisan Health Talks Are Dead — for Now Things were looking up for bipartisan health-care talks, until the GOP decided to try once more to repeal Obamacare. But someday reason may prevail.
By Ed Kilgore
The Final Obamacare Repeal-and-Replace Scheme Is Headed for a Ditch It’s an underfunded version of an earlier plan to let states control health-care policy. But Graham-Cassidy is probably a bill whose time has passed.
By Ed Kilgore
Heller’s Hamlet Act on Health Care Bombing Back Home For a long time Dean Heller looked likely to thwart his party’s drive for health-care legislation. Then he flipped back, but the GOP failed anyway.
By Ed Kilgore
Governors Blast ‘Skinny Repeal.’ Could That Cost the GOP a Key Senate Vote? Senator Heller suggested he’d stand by Nevada’s Republican governor, coming out against the Senate bill.
By Margaret Hartmann
7 Senate Republicans Help Kill GOP’s Obamacare Repeal Bill A second major GOP Obamacare repeal bill, the one Congress passed in 2015, was handily defeated by the Senate.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate GOP Advances Health-Care Bill(s) to Debate Senate Republicans don’t know what their health-care bill is, or what it does, but they just voted to advance it to debate.
By Eric Levitz
Six Questions About the Senate Health-Care Bill As the Endgame Approaches The GOP is still struggling for votes to bring up health-care legislation. If that succeeds, the deal-making and rules-breaking will get serious.
By Ed Kilgore
Note Left at GOP Senator’s Office: Vote No on Trumpcare or Die Someone broke into Dean Heller’s Las Vegas office and left the threatening message.
By Adam K. Raymond
How Many Millions Losing Health Coverage Will GOP ‘Moderates’ Find Acceptable? Soon Republican centrists will have to decide if big insurance losses due to Medicaid cuts are okay after all.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
July 14, 2017
Republicans Confident Senator Dean Heller Will Be ‘Bought Off,’ Pass Trumpcare Republican statements about policies they can’t support have not meant much so far.
By Jonathan Chait
Voters Encourage Trumpcare’s Republican Opponents to ‘Stay Strong’ On July Fourth weekend, Senate Republicans either hid from their constituents — or were showered in praise for not passing their health-care bill.
By Eric Levitz
Senate Delays Trumpcare Vote Due to Lack of Support Mitch McConnell had planned to pass Obamacare repeal before the July 4 recess. Now, he doesn’t even have the votes to proceed to debate.
By Eric Levitz
CBO Score of Senate Health Bill Is Grim — But Gives McConnell Wiggle Room On one hand: 22 million people losing coverage. On the other: extra deficit savings to fund sweeteners.
By Ed Kilgore
Another GOP Senator Comes Out As ‘No’ on Health-Care Bill, Imperiling Prospects Dean Heller of Nevada said he could not support legislation as written. Now things get dicey for Mitch McConnell.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate Dems Looking for 3 Republicans Brave Enough to Help Them Get Russia Probe By holding confirmation of a Comey successor hostage to an independent-inquiry demand.
By Ed Kilgore
Maybe Senate Democrats Aren’t in Such Bad Shape for 2018 With a horrific electoral landscape, it was thought Democrats would lose Senate seats even if they did well in the House. But things are looking up.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Apr. 27, 2011
By Dan Amira
