* John Ford ( Oklahoma politician ) ( born 1945 ), American political figure ; elected 2004 as Republican member of Oklahoma State Senate ; chairman of Education Committee

On November 9, 2004, following George W. Bush's re-election, Ashcroft announced his resignation, which took effect on February 3, 2005 when the Senate confirmed White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales as the next attorney general.

** Senate of Fiji-current membership ( 2004 )

The opposition participated in municipal elections in January – February 1994 and subsequent Senate elections, most recently in April 2004, gaining representation at the local level as well as three seats in the Senate.

In 2004, Stott Despoja took 11 weeks ' leave from the Senate following the birth of her first child before returning to full duties as Democrat spokesperson on, inter alia, Higher Education, Status of Women, and Work and Family.

In 2004 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá ( PDP ) was declared the winner by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico as governor, by about 3, 000 votes, but his party lost control of the Senate, which elected NPP Senator Kenneth McClintock as its president, and the House of Representatives, which chose the NPP's José Aponte as Speaker, and Puerto Rico's seat in Congress, due to the election of Luis Fortuño.

Similarly, the US Senate Intelligence Committee, while critical of US intelligence officials, did not recommend any resignations in its report, also issued in July 2004.

In the context of the 2004 election cycle $ 50 multiplied by the approximately 120 million people who voted would have yielded about $ 6 billion in “ public financing ” compared to the approximate $ 4 billion spent in 2004 for all federal elections ( House, Senate and Presidential races ) combined.

Democratic U. S. Senator Patty Murray narrowly carried Clark County in the United States Senate election in Washington, 2010 with 52 % of the vote, but lost the county to Republican Senate candidate George Nethercutt in 2004.

In state elections it was the only county to be won by Howard Mills over incumbent Chuck Schumer in the 2004 U. S. Senate election.

In response to this, the " Cheeseburger Bill " was passed by the U. S. House of Representatives in 2004 ; it later stalled in the U. S. Senate.

By contrast, the only period in recent times during which the government of the day has had a majority in the Senate was from July 2005 ( following the 2004 election ) to December 2007 ( following the Coalition's defeat at the federal election that year ).

One Nation attempted to defend its Queensland Senate seat at the 2004 federal election, but lost it ( effectively to the National Party ).

Johnson County House and Senate members at times come into conflict with representatives from other areas of the state, most notably in 2004 in the debate over school finance.

Barack Obama, the junior Senator from Illinois elected as President in November 2008, also visited Greenville while campaigning for his Senate seat in 2004, in a visit hosted by the Bond County Democrats.

2004 US Senate

In the 2004 U. S. Senate primary election, Tensas Parish gave a plurality to the Republican candidate, Congressman David Vitter of St. Tammany Parish.

Following the November 2, 2004, elections, the 50-member Senate was evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.

Foster, Jr., Governor of Louisiana from 1996 to 2004 ; former member of the Louisiana State Senate

The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Republican Richard Burr, elected in 2004.

The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Republican Richard Burr, who was elected to the Senate in 2004.

* Unmaking law: the Conservative campaign to roll back the common law / Jay M Feinman., 2004

Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...

This campaign featured Republicans who voted for Bush in the 2000 election giving their personal reasons for voting for Kerry in 2004.

In September 2004, the song was used in Japan as part of an advertising campaign for Panasonic.

Fox also apologized for fabricated quotes attributed to John Kerry in an article on its website during the 2004 presidential campaign, stating that the piece was a joke which accidentally appeared on the website.

The 2004 season was the last F3000 campaign, due in part to dwindling field sizes.

In August 2004, the Keep Britain Tidy campaign issued a press release calling for zero tolerance of graffiti and supporting proposals such as issuing " on the spot " fines to graffiti offenders and banning the sale of aerosol paint to anyone under the age of 16.

In June 2004, Lynch launched his campaign for Governor of New Hampshire.

For example, the June 2004 election campaign of the Liberal Party of Canada was compared with " the Keystone Kops running around " by one of its parliamentary members, Carolyn Parrish.

Notably, George W. Bush made this faux pas during his campaign for the 2004 U. S. Presidential Election.

A campaign is currently underway ( reported on BBC Radio 4, Today programme, 10 July 2004 ) to encourage emigration from the UK to Saint Helena to aid development of the economy.

Since 2004 ( when the RPGA discontinued Virtual Seattle ) Shadowrun Missions ( SRM ) has offered fans a “ living campaign ” that allows for persistent character advancement.

Mbeki has sometimes been characterised as remote and academic, although in his second campaign for Presidency in 2004, many observers described him as finally relaxing into a more traditional campaign mode, sometimes dancing at events and even kissing babies.

For example, by the end of September, the financial positions of Republican contenders in the cycle were worse than those of Democrats at the same point in the 2004 campaign.

Susan Carroll, the author of Women Voters and the Gender Gap, states that the increase of women influence on political behaviors is due to four main categories: women outnumber men among voters ; significant efforts are underway to increase registration and turnout among women ; a gender gap is evident in the 2004 election as it has been in every presidential election since 1980 ; and women constitute a disproportionately large share of the undecided voters who will make their decision late in the campaign.

Also in 2004 Enfield provided the voice of " The Roaming Gnome " character used in Travelocity's U. S. advertising campaign.

Between 1996 and 2004, companies in the Hired Truck Program gave more than $ 800, 000 in campaign contributions to various politicians, from House Speaker Michael Madigan to Gov.

It was originally described in detail by Yale Law School professors Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres in their 2004 book Voting with Dollars: A new paradigm for campaign finance.

" was the 2004 campaign slogan of the Marijuana Party of Canada.

* Comedian and presenter Griff Rhys Jones appeared as himself in July 2004, when he was drafted into Lynda's campaign to restore the Cat and Fiddle pub.

In a campaign speech in February 2004, for example, Putin called the dismantlement of the Soviet Union a " national tragedy on an enormous scale ," from which " only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

The textbook issue was raised in November 2004, when a group of lawmakers, legislative candidates and supporters of the pro-independence Taiwan Solidarity Union ( TSU ) urged the ROC Ministry of Education to publish Taiwan-centric history and geography textbooks for school children as part of the Taiwanization campaign.

During the 2004 election campaign, she withheld support for Nader's bid, being among several " Nader 2000 Leaders " who signed a petition that urged voters to vote for Democratic Party candidate John Kerry.

In 2004, the museum announced an $ 18 million capital campaign, of which $ 12 million had already been raised.