Scott Brown team eyes new contest

PROVIDENCE, R.I. | The political team that helped Republican underdog Scott Brown stage his improbable victory in the Massachusetts Senate race wants to apply its winning strategy elsewhere this election year. First stop: Rhode Island. The Shawmut Group, led by aides to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, is helping GOP congressional candidate John Loughlin, who is campaigning to replace retiring Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy. The handiwork of two Shawmut Group principals, Eric Fehrnstrom and Peter Flaherty, was evident in Mr. Loughlin's campaign announcement speech, staged shortly after Mr. Brown's win on Jan. 19. Mr. Loughlin, like Mr. Brown a state ...

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Sen. Scott Brown to Release Memoirs Next Year

HarperCollins announced Tuesday that it will publish Brown's memoir, currently untitled, in early 2011.

Scott Brown’s Political Team Takes Its Campaign Template on the Road

The Shawmut Group, led by aides to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, is now helping GOP congressional candidate John Loughlin, who's campaigning to replace retiring Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.
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3 Dems unsure about changing health votes

A top House Democrat said Sunday he believes Congress will pass a health care bill, but three fellow Democrats who opposed overhaul legislation last fall aren't committing themselves to backing President Obama's late push. The House and the Senate approved different versions of the legislation by narrow margins. Merging the bills became more complicated when Senate Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority in January after the election of Sen. Scott Brown, Massachusetts Republican. House members are reluctant to approve the Senate plan on the promise that senators will tinker with provisions House members find objectionable. Still, that wobbly bridge appeared to ...

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Brown Appears at McCain Campaign Rally in Tucson

At a campaign rally in Tucson on Saturday, McCain enlisted one of the GOP's rising stars -- Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown.

Sen. Scott Brown Campaigns for John McCain in Arizona

As a nationally popular Republican representing a left-leaning state, Brown walks a fine line between pleasing his base and positioning himself for re-election.
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Massachusetts Mayor Invites Obama, Brown to Basketball Matchup

Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, the Republican who dealt a blow to Obama's agenda with his upset win in a special election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, accepted an invitation on Wednesday to play against the president in a friendly game of basketball.

Republican Sen. Scott Brown Branded A Turncoat for His Vote on Jobs Bill

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Democrats Cling to Reconciliation as Option to Pass Health Care Reform

Democrats increasingly have looked to reconciliation as viable option since Republican Scott Brown won a special election last month in Massachusetts to become the state's new U.S. senator, depriving Democrats of their 60-vote supermajority and sidelining the health care reform bills passed both the House and Senate late last year. 

Jobs bill advances with help from Brown

Bipartisanship broke out in the Senate on Monday, aided by newly minted Sen. Scott Brown, as senators rewarded the hardball tactics of Democratic leaders and avoided a filibuster by voting to move forward with Democrats' $15 billion bill to spur job creation through highway construction and hiring incentives. After months of legislative gridlock, the vote was fraught with tension as both sides waited to see how it would shake out. But five Republicans broke with their party and joined 55 Democrats and two independents to prevent the threatened filibuster — two more than the 60 votes needed. It was also ...

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Political Scene

SENATE Bayh sees Brown as part of 'cure' Retiring Sen. Evan Bayh, Indiana Democrat, said Monday that electing more lawmakers like Scott Brown, the new Republican senator from Massachusetts, may be the "ultimate cure" for partisan gridlock in Washington. Mr. Brown's upset victory over a Democrat who held a double-digit lead a week before Massachusetts' special Senate election last month signaled that voters wanted "more practical problem solving," Mr. Bayh said in an interview Monday on ABC-TV's "The View." "Scott Brown is a good example of what I think the ultimate cure might be," Mr. Bayh said. "My read on ...

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With Republican Sen. Scott Brown's Help, Jobs Bill Advances Past GOP Filibuster

The 62-30 vote to advance the measure to a final vote on Wednesday gives both President Barack Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats a much-needed victory.
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Democratic Jobs Bill Advances Despite GOP Filibuster

A bipartisan jobs bill cleared a GOP filibuster on Monday with critical momentum provided by the Senate's newest Republican, Scott Brown of Massachusetts.

Brown Helps Democrats Break GOP Filibuster

The election of Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) energized Republicans that he would give them a critical 41st vote to help them block Democrats and filibuster key legislation.

Reid snags victory on $15B jobs bill

Scott Brown joins four GOP-ers in voting for cloture.
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Brown's Daughters Hock Wares in Exchange for Campaign Donations

Scott Brown's daughters are hocking novelty items for their dad, the latest effort by Ayla and Arianna Brown to help the new Massachusetts senator and capitalize on their almost famous status.

Scott Brown Wows CPAC Crowd: ‘We Have Changed Politics in America’

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) made a surprise appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
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GOP aims to end Illinois losing streak

CHICAGO | The last decade was not a good one for Illinois Republicans. They lost a Senate seat, their party's last governor went to prison, and they were shut out of every statewide office. But the recent surprise win by Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race and a string of setbacks for Illinois Democrats have the state GOP giddy about its chances to claim the next big electoral prizes: President Obama's former Senate seat and ousted Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich's old job. For a change, Republicans have reason to feel confident. This year's races are likely to be ...

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Reid woos Scott Brown on jobs bill

The majority leader believes the new senator from Massachusetts is gettable on the issue.
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The Evan Doesn't Fall Far from the Birch

If the election of Scott Brown was a lightning bolt striking the Democratic Party, then Evan Bayh's announcement that he is retiring is the equivalent Harry Reid and the Senate Democratic caucus being run over by a semi.
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Brown for President in 2012? No Joke, Supporters Say

He's only been a senator for a week but the drumbeat already has begun for Scott Brown to run for president in 2012.

Sen. Brown to Pen Autobiography

Newly seated Sen. Scott Brown will write a book about his life leading up to his upset election to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Scott Brown plans memoir

The man with the truck will write a book that combines memoir and inspiration.
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Labor nominee blocked in Senate

In a vivid display of President Obama's diminished clout, the Senate's newest Republican and two veteran Democrats Tuesday helped block Mr. Obama's bid to fill a key labor post with a nominee they considered too cozy with unions. With newly seated Sen. Scott Brown, Massachusetts Republican, voting to sustain the filibuster, Senate Democratic leaders failed to muster the 60 votes needed to force a vote on the nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, which resolves disputes between unions and management. Dubbed a friend of organized labor, Mr. Becker had been fiercely opposed by business and employer ...

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Greens call on Brown with talk of jobs

Will Scott Brown oppose the president's energy and climate agenda?
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