In addition to the anniversary of D-Day, June 6 also marks the date on which Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont switched parties to hand Senate control to the Democrats. The year was 2001 ...

WASHINGTON -- If Sen. James Jeffords' expected defection from the Republican Party leads to a Democratic majority in the Senate, environmental regulations, education, a proposed income tax cut and ...

James Jeffords did Thursday. "I think the direction I want to take the Democratic Party is the direction that our founding fathers, and even a few years (ago) Democrats, were taking," he said.

Senator James Jeffords left the Republican Party and declared himself an independent today, giving Democrats control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994. Jeffords made his ...

Corporations themselves cannot donate to candidates at the federal level but federal candidates can get contributions from corporate PACs, employees and owners as well as their immediate families. At ...

They are on the public payroll, and their job is to serve the public." —U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords (I-Vermont), member, Senate Finance Committee Stung by criticism about poor service, the ...

These tables list the top donors to candidates in the 1999 - 2004 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual ...