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Palin resigns as governor; leaves plans secret (AP)
AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.
Posted Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:36:43 GMT
Group Sotomayor belonged to sued over job tests (AP)
AP - A civil rights group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the 1980s brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored well, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge.
Posted Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:24:55 GMT
Leahy: GOP planned objection to a high court pick (AP)
AP - The chairman of the Senate's upcoming Supreme Court hearings says Republicans told him they would have objected no matter whom President Barack Obama nominated to the high court.
Posted Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:47:18 GMT
White House Says GOP Request on Sotomayor 'Not Relevant' (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - The White House on Friday pushed back against a GOP effort to tie Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to the work of a Puerto Rican legal advocacy group.
Posted Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:38:19 GMT
GOP's Coleman could eye Minn. governor run next (AP)
AP - The man who lost the 1998 Minnesota governor's race to pro wrestler Jesse Ventura now holds the distinction of losing his U.S. Senate seat to former "Saturday Night Live" comedian Al Franken.
Posted Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:21:35 GMT
GOP: 60 Votes Will Haunt Democrats at Ballot Box (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Republicans say Democrat Al Franken's victory in the long-contested Minnesota Senate race opens a new line of attack against Democrats for 2010.
Posted Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:02:36 GMT
No Senate holiday, NY's gov says as GOP turns to him (Reuters)
Reuters - New York senators must stay in Albany over the U.S. Independence Day holiday for extraordinary sessions, according to a decision on Wednesday by the governor, trying again to get warring lawmakers to pick a leader and finally enact bills.
Posted Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:57:02 GMT
GOP loses last Jewish senator with Coleman loss (AP)
AP - The defeat of incumbent Norm Coleman in the drawn-out Minnesota Senate race leaves Republicans without a Jewish senator for the first time in half a century.
Posted Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:50:39 GMT
Maine Dems circle GOP contender over stylized 'O' (AP)
AP - O, boy.
Posted Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:47:29 GMT
New York Freshman Massa Challenged By GOP Recruit Reed (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Tom Reed, the mayor of the small upstate New York city of Corning, announced Wednesday that he is challenging freshman Democratic Rep. Eric Massa for the state's 29th District seat. Reed's decision to run gives Republican strategists their preferred candidate for one of their priority races in the 2010 national House campaign.
Posted Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:22:19 GMT
Franken wins Minn. Senate race; Coleman concedes (AP)
AP - Al Franken ascended Tuesday from the ranks of former "Saturday Night Live" comedians to an even more exclusive club, outlasting Republican Norm Coleman in an eight-month recount and courtroom saga to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Posted Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:45:30 GMT
Senate Democrats to Pawlenty: certify Franken (AP)
AP - Senate Democrats are urging Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to certify Democrat Al Franken's election to the Senate following the state Supreme Court's ruling that the former Saturday Night Live comedian defeated GOP incumbent Norm Coleman.
Posted Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:48:00 GMT
Ariz. lawmakers' budget work goes down to the wire (AP)
AP - Arizona's budget battle is going down to the wire, with an intraparty struggle between the Republican governor and the GOP-led Legislature creating the possibility of a state government shutdown starting Wednesday.
Posted Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:27:04 GMT
Senators want hearing on Obama's firing of IG (AP)
AP - Two Republican senators asked Monday for a congressional hearing to look at whether President Barack Obama acted appropriately when he fired the national service agency's inspector general earlier this month.
Posted Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:11:38 GMT
Dems warn GOP not to overreach in health care (AP)
AP - Mainstream Democrats close to Barack Obama are warning Republicans about insisting on too many changes to the president's health care overhaul, saying the Democratic-controlled Congress will move ahead without GOP input if they do.
Posted Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:35:28 GMT
GOP leader says time needed for Sotomayor records (AP)
AP - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the committee preparing for hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor needs time to review 300 boxes of records that recently turned up in connection with her work for a legal advocacy group.
Posted Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:55:31 GMT
Republicans eyed for 2012 weigh Sanford fallout (AP)
AP - A potential White House contender in 2012 staked a claim Sunday to rehabilitating the Republican Party in the wake of extramarital affairs by two leading Republicans that have damaged the GOP's family-values image.
Posted Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:31:16 GMT
Axelrod accuses GOP of using inaction a strategy (AP)
AP - One of President Barack Obama's top advisers says Republicans are using inaction as a political strategy.
Posted Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:38:36 GMT
GOP urges more spending restraint in programs (AP)
AP - Republicans concerned about the Obama administration's big spending on economic stimulus, energy and health care are asking, "Where are the jobs?"
Posted Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:46:30 GMT
House rejects GOP energy alternative (AP)
AP - The House has rejected a Republican alternative to a Democratic climate bill. The vote set the stage for passage of a bill that for the first time would limit U.S. greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
Posted Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:54:06 GMT
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