The 1st Congressional District became available last year when Representative Tim Scott was appointed to the seat.
The seat was left vacant when its previous occupant, Tim Scott, was appointed to a vacant Senate seat.
Bennet, the former superintendent of schools in Denver, was appointed to a vacant seat in 2009, and already has to defend it this year.
Jackson's illness comes as the House Ethics Committee is examining allegations that in 2008, he or one of his associates offered to raise money for then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for Jackson being appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama after he was elected president.
Jackson's illness comes as the House Ethics Committee is examining allegations that in 2008 he or or one of his associates offered to raise funds for then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for Jackson being appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama after he was elected president.
Knowing that a third successive special election defeat would be interpreted by some as a trend, national Republican Party officials pulled out all the stops to keep Democrats from winning Tuesday's contest in Mississippi's 1st District, called for when Rep. Roger Wicker (R) was appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Trent Lott.
In 1965, she became an assistant state attorney general in Arizona and left that position in 1969 when she was appointed to a state Senate seat.
In a written affidavit given to the impeachment panel, Burris said he had one limited conversation with the governor about the Senate seat before he was appointed.
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He has carried out negotiations with the US and represented Sciri at international meetings, and holds Sciri's only seat on the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council.
His niece, Caroline Kennedy, failed in her quasi-campaign to be appointed to Hillary Clinton's vacated Senate seat in New York.
Its former occupant, U.S. Rep. Tim Scott, was appointed to the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the resignation of Sen.
The debate was their first joint appearance in the campaign that began after then-U.S. Rep. Tim Scott was appointed to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by fellow Republican Jim DeMint.
The Democrats, who are backing the bail-out, control only 50 seats (Barack Obama has resigned his seat and his successor has not yet been appointed).
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Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg prompted widespread derision from the opposition benches as he declined to rule out taking a seat in the House of Lords under an appointed system, were his planned reforms to fail.
Ms. WALTER: That is a state that Democrats have had on their list for a little while now, mostly because the incumbent Roger Wicker. who was appointed to replace Trent Lott who had resigned from his seat.
Governor Nikki Haley then appointed the sitting congressman, Tim Scott, to fill DeMint's seat.
One Democratic seat was left vacant when Robert Menendez of New Jersey was appointed to the Senate, and three Republican seats are vacant because of resignations -- those of DeLay, Foley and Ney.
The ten-seat board, dominated in the post-Enron age by eight independent directors, has appointed a four-member search committee--without inviting Andreas to join it.
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