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Alexander campaigns for whip job
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Sep 28, 2005 11:02am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sen. Lamar Alexander has been running a quiet campaign to become majority whip in the next Congress, an effort that will likely be an uphill battle even if Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), the leading candidate for the post, loses his reelection bid.
Many of the Senate’s 55 Republicans have committed their votes to Santorum, who would be favored to move up from his post as conference chairman should he win election to a third term in November 2006. If Santorum loses, the race for whip could easily become a wide-open scramble for the powerful post.
“I don’t think he can beat Rick,” said Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), himself a candidate for the post of conference vice chairman. “But it’s everyone’s right to run.”
The whip job is due to come open when Alexander’s fellow Tennessee Republican, Sen. Bill Frist, leaves the post of majority leader at the end of his current term to wage a likely campaign for president.
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