Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Mike Ross [D, AR-4]

House rejects bill penalizing doctors for sex selective abortions

2012-06-01T01:00:00Z

...Garamendi (Calif.), Tim Holden (Pa.), Larry Kissell (N.C.), Daniel Lipinski (Ill.), Stephen Lynch (Mass.), Jim Matheson (Utah), Mike McIntyre (N.C.), Collin Peterson (Minn.), Nick Rahall (W.Va.), Silvestre Reyes (Texas), Mike Ross (Ark.) and Heath Shule

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House Democrats Vote to Support Gender-Based Abortions

2012-06-01T01:00:00Z

...(Calif.), Tim Holden (Pa.), Larry Kissell (N.C.), Daniel Lipinski (Ill.), Stephen Lynch (Mass.), Jim Matheson (Utah), Mike McIntyre (N.C.), Collin Peterson (Minn.), Nick Rahall (W.Va.), Silvestre Reyes (Texas), Mike Ross (Ark.) and Heath Shuler (N.C.).

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. . . Of outrageous fortune

2012-05-31T01:00:00Z

...downers. McDaniel will be the next governor. He was going to be the next governor even before Mike Ross quit, which is why Mike Ross quit. Tom Cotton—He has a good name, a great resume and a positive reputation among national conservatives. If 2nd Dis

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He'll be missed

2012-05-30T01:00:00Z

...disturbing to recognize that Mike Ross is now the best Arkansas has in the U.S. House of Representatives. It's devastating to ponder his impending replacement by somebody worse. A Blue Dog (that is, part-time) Democrat, Ross is stepping down at the end

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COMMENTARY: Ross Ready To Leave Politics

2012-05-29T01:00:00Z

...the day before the primary election, and Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., soon to be just plain Mike Ross, has spent the day doing what he wouldn’t have had time to do were he remaining in politics: hauling a load of his son’s stuff from Prescott to Fayettev

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Analysis: Primaries offer hint of what's to come

2012-05-27T02:50:27Z

... Congressman Rick Crawford and the GOP is confident it can claim a seat now held by outgoing Democratic incumbent Rep. Mike Ross. Republicans were gleeful in pointing out that a Tennessee lawyer managed to pull nearly 42 percent of the primary vote ...

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GOP's Anti-Tax Pledge Loses Some Steam (Washn)

2012-05-25T14:34:20Z

Richard Lugar in a Republican primary. This week, an ATR-backed candidate in Arkansas won a Republican primary to run in a seat held by retiring Democrat Rep. Mike Ross, after ATR called voters to let them know his opponent had not signed the pledge.

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A talk with soon-to-be citizen Ross

2012-05-25T12:18:20Z

It’s the day before the primary election, and Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., soon to be just plain Mike Ross, has spent the day doing what he wouldn’t have had time to do were he remaining in politics: hauling a load of his son’s stuff from ...

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All Incumbents Aren't Alike

2012-05-24T01:00:00Z

...than willing to continue nominating fresh, reformist faces for the general election. In southern Kentucky, where Democratic Rep. Mike Ross (one of the last of the Blue Dogs) is retiring, GOP voters gave the nod to Tom Cotton, an Army veteran. Mr. Cotton

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DC Morrison backs former rival Gene Jeffress in Dem runoff for south Arkansas US House seat

2012-05-23T16:24:05Z

Morrison, a Little Rock businessman, announced his bid after Democratic Congressman Mike Ross announced he would not seek a seventh term. Morrison ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate two years ago and has been a ..

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Morrison backs Jeffress in south Ark. House race

2012-05-23T15:05:21Z

DC Morrison backs former rival Gene Jeffress in Dem runoff for south Arkansas US House seat

2012-05-23T14:08:05Z

Wednesday's campaign round-up

2012-05-23T11:59:14Z

Rep. Mike Ross (D) has scrapped plans for a gubernatorial campaign. * And in Vermont, a new statewide poll shows incumbent Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) with a 33-point lead over his Republican challenger, Randy Brock, 60% to 27%.

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Club For Growth Favorite Tom Cotton Wins Arkansas House Primary

2012-05-23T11:30:36Z

Rankin, a onetime Miss Arkansas, was the GOP standard-bearer in the 2010 race against Rep. Mike Ross (D), who is retiring this year. Although Rankin has the support of Huckabee in her repeat run this year, she hasn't been able to raise the money ...

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Club For Growth Favorite Tom Cotton Wins Arkansas House Primary

2012-05-23T10:40:29Z

House incumbents win in Kentucky, Arkansas

2012-05-23T08:31:38Z

The 63-year-old Davis is departing the House after four terms. In the GOP primary contest for the seat of retiring Democratic Rep. Mike Ross in Arkansas, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan prevailed. Tom Cotton notched a win over Beth Anne ...

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Congressional races top slim Arkansas primary results

2012-05-23T04:56:53Z

LITTLE ROCK — Voters in southern Arkansas on Tuesday chose between better-funded establishment picks and underfunded candidates in the race to replace retiring Congressman Mike Ross, while a trio of Democrats bid for a chance to challenge a ...

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Analysis: Cotton avoids anti-establishment tide that hits other candidates in Arkansas primary

2012-05-23T02:12:15Z

That support was needed in a district where Rankin — who lost to two years ago to Democratic Congressman Mike Ross — could tout that she was a Republican in south Arkansas before being a Republican there was cool. Ross is retiring when his term ends.

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Cotton wins GOP primary for Congress; Dems runoff

2012-05-23T01:36:27Z

The district is Arkansas' only Democratically controlled U.S. House seat. Congressman Mike Ross announced last year he wouldn't seek a seventh term. The race for the seat is wide open this fall. Republicans say they have a strong chance of winning the 33 .

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Army vet wins GOP nod for Congress in Arkansas

2012-05-23T01:36:27Z

Retiring Democratic Congressman Mike Ross' departure after 12 years representing south Arkansas' 4th District drew a crowd of candidates from both parties seeking the incumbent Democrat's seat. Tom Cotton, an Army veteran and management consultant ...

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