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Mark Kirk, the freshman Republican senator from Illinois who won the special election for President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat in 2010, suffered a stroke on Monday morning and was admitted to a hospital in Chicago to undergo surgery, The Daily Caller has confirmed. Kirk’s Washington, D.C. office also confirmed to TheDC that the surgery was successful. (more)

In November 2016, Illinois voters will go to the polls to decide who they want to occupy the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Sen. Mark Kirk. And although it is a long way off, could one of the names on the ticket be first lady Michelle Obama? (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator is blocking President Barack Obama’s nominee to become ambassador to Russia over suspicions the U.S. might provide Moscow with sensitive missile defense information. (more)

As many Republicans and Democrats in Congress succumb to the temptation to scale back America’s role in the world amidst the economic turmoil, freshman Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk is standing athwart Congress, yelling: Stop! (more)

Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk lambasted Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich for his recent trip to Syria in an extensive interview with The Daily Caller in his Capitol Hill office last week. (more)

Another short-term budget resolution to fund the government is expected to pass the House Tuesday, but support among Senate Republicans is waning, with many promising that this will be the last time they’ll offer leadership their support until they come up with a long-term solution. (more)

South Carolina Republican and conservative firebrand Sen. Jim DeMint introduced legislation to repeal Obamacare on Wednesday, the first official step in bringing the House-passed repeal bill fight into the staid upper chamber. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than two months after voters gave Republicans six more Senate seats and control of the House, the GOP is lining up candidates for 2012, well ahead of the pace of previous election cycles. (more)

WASHINGTON — No one was more critical than Representative Mark Steven Kirk when President Obama and the Democratic majority in the Congress sought passage last year of a $787 billion spending bill intended to stimulate the economy. And during his campaign for the Illinois Senate seat once held by Mr. Obama, Mr. Kirk, a Republican, boasted of his vote against “Speaker Pelosi’s trillion-dollar stimulus plan.” (more)

Bobby Schilling, an incoming Tea Party-backed member of Congress from Illinois, is backing opposition to a just-passed defense authorization bill, warning it could allow suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into the United States for trial. (more)

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden, the gaffe-prone vice president, strayed from tradition Monday at the swearing-in of Republican Mark Kirk, the new senator from Illinois. (more)

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is vowing to bring the immigration-related “DREAM Act” to the Senate floor and some Senate Republicans are sounding the alarm bells, highlighting that it would offer amnesty to an estimated 2.1 million illegal aliens. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five winners of special House and Senate elections will be sworn in before the rest of the freshman class. (more)

This is the sixth and final in a series of articles looking at the races most likely to determine whether Republicans capture or Democrats hold the majority in the U.S. Senate after Election Day. (more)