2013 in Law - 112th United States Congress, United States Senate Elections, 2010 (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Previous Majority LeaderHarry ReidDemocratic Elections to the United States Senate are scheduled to be held on November 2, 2010, for 36 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate. A special election for a 37th seat was held in Massachusetts on January 19, 2010, for a term that ends in January 2013. Thirty-four of the seats are for six-year terms, beginning January 3, 2011, and ending January 2017. They will join Senate Class III, which traces its roots back to the Senators who served full six-year terms from March 4, 1789 to March 3, 1795. The other two races are for shorter terms: Delaware ending January 2015 and New York ending January 2013. After the 2008 elections and their subsequent events, the Senate is composed of 57 Democrats, 41 Republicans, and two independents who caucus with the Democrats. Of the remaining seats currently up for election in 2010, 18 are held by Democrats (6 of whom are retiring) and 18 are held by Republicans (7 of whom are retiring). The following 12 seats are considered safe in all current predictions. Therefore, to reduce visual clutter, they do not appear in the table below: 2010 brings two US Senate elections to New York, Charles Schumer's seat is considered a safe Democratic hold by all sources listed in the table. (The senator is seeking reelection to a third term.) The seat held by Kirsten Gillibrand is listed as New York*, with an asterisk. A special election for a 37th seat was held in Massachusetts on January 19, 2010. Five-term Democratic incumbent Christopher Dodd was reelected with 66% of the vote in 2004. Facing grim prospects for reelection, Dodd announced on January 6, 2010, that he is not running for reelection. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) plans to run for the seat, wh... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1134236