Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

DSCC logo.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States Senate, working to elect Democrats to that body. Senator Jon Corzine of New Jersey was chair for the U.S. Senate election, 2004. On November 15, 2004, Senator Charles Schumer was named to head the organization in preparation for U.S. Senate election, 2006. JB Poersch is the executive director of the committee.

List of Chairs

Name	State	Term of Service
J. Bennett Johnston	LA	1976-1977
Wendell Ford	KY	1977-1983
Lloyd Bentsen	TX	1983-1985
George Mitchell	ME	1985-1987
John Kerry	MA	1987-1989
John Breaux	LA	1989-1991
Charles S. Robb	VA	1991-1993
Bob Graham	FL	1993-1995
Bob Kerrey	NE	1995-1999
Robert G. Torricelli	NJ	1999-2001
Patty Murray	WA	2001-2003
Jon S. Corzine	NJ	2003-2005
Charles Schumer	NY	2005 - Present

The "Lieberman Crisis" of 2006

In the 2006 Connecticut Democratic primary campaign for the Senate, incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman faced an unexpectedly strong challenge from Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont, who enjoyed considerable backing from grassroots Democratic activists in Connecticut and bloggers, including Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of Daily Kos. In response to the primary challenge, DSCC chair Charles Schumer refused to rule out continuing financial and logistic support for Lieberman if he were defeated in the primaries and chose to run for the Senate as an independent candidate. [1]

External links

*Official web site
*Official blog

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