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The Utah Democratic Party said a vote for incumbent Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is essentially a vote for death, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

The Tribune reported that state Democrats issued a news release Monday saying Hatch has accepted campaign donations from the world’s most deadly corporations, as listed on the website brainz.org. The release also said Hatch voted in ways that favored the corporations on several occasions.

Democrat Bob Kerrey was only 3 percentage points behind Republican Deb Fischer Monday in their quest to replace retiring Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.).

The Omaha World-Herald Poll of 800 registered Nebraska voters showed a huge jump for the Democrat after he started running an ad campaign attacking Fischer’s character. Five weeks ago he was behind her by 10 points.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) urged Connecticut voters to elect GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon during the weekend.

The New Haven Register reported that Rubio’s robocall for McMahon started Saturday. 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will campaign for Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock in Indiana on Monday.

The Associated Press reported that McConnell would join Mourdock in Indianapolis on Monday night to raise money and watch the final presidential debate between President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) visited the “Bainport” protest camp in Freeport, Ill., on Tuesday.

Workers who will lose their jobs in November have formed a “Bainport” encampment, a small tent city across the street from the Sensata Technologies plant in Freeport, Ill. The Sensata employees say GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, the financial firm he co-founded, are responsible for their jobs being shipped overseas to China.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) criticized Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for comments his campaign staff made to the Boston Globe saying he would “not honor deportation exemptions” for young illegal immigrants if he takes office.

“Gov. Romney has set an unfortunate deadline for hundreds of thousands of DREAMers: get approval under President Obama’s deferred action before inauguration, or risk being deported if Romney is sworn in,” Reid said in a statement Wednesday. 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) went after GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney for not being forthcoming about his own taxes or his tax plan for the American people.

“Mitt Romney could clear up these issues tomorrow if he would simply release his tax returns and release the details of his tax plan,” Reid said in a statement Tuesday. “Instead, he's asking the American people to just trust him. Mitt Romney does not seem to understand that trust is earned — and not by playing shell games with the American people.”

Reid’s comments came after a New York Times article about Romney’s use of offshore accounts. 

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) applauded Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s announcement Monday directing immigration officials to consider LGBT family ties when evaluating eligibility for relief.

Napolitano’s decision said that DHS’s prosecutorial discretion policy concerning immigrants that pose no risk to national security would now cover those in same-sex relationships.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is urging Congress, following the November elections, to crack down on misleading pitches that lure college students into taking on student loan debt for little in return.

Blumenthal introduced a bill that would require colleges to disclose information such as cost of attendance, student outcomes, academic offerings and procedures for withdrawing and filing complaints.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) asked Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez on Thursday to enforce voting rights laws following a news report of efforts by Tea Party-linked groups to intimidate voters.

The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that a group called “True the Vote,” affiliated with the Tea Party, has asked that more than 2,100 names be remove from Ohio's voter rosters despite complaints from legitimate voters.