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New lobbyist implicated in Abramoff investigation (AP)
AP - A former GOP lobbyist with ties to Jack Abramoff may be moving toward a plea agreement with the Justice Department in its wide-ranging corruption investigation, documents showed Friday.
Posted Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:20:59 GMT
Pence's Promotion Signals Republican Return to Reagan Roots (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg - Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Mike Pence says the Republican Party doesn't need new ideas: It needs to reconnect to old ones.
Posted Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:01:00 GMT
Senate standing ovation as 'Uncle Ted' bids farewell (AFP)
AFP - Aides wept Thursday as Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator ever, bade an emotional farewell, haunted by a criminal conviction which cost him his seat of 40 years.
Posted Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:54:55 GMT
Obama chief of staff pick meets with Republicans (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama sent his top aide to Capitol Hill Thursday to tell leaders of the rival Republican party that he needed their help to confront the challenges facing the country.
Posted Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:44:13 GMT
House GOP Backs Away from Earmark Moratorium (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - For the second year in a row, the House GOP caucus rejected an effort to limit its members' requests for special projects, or earmarks, in this case a short-term moratorium.
Posted Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:57:15 GMT
Georgia race key in Senate power struggle (Reuters)
Reuters - A contest for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia has become a last stand for the Republican Party to block Democrats from gaining a majority big enough to push their legislation through the chamber almost at will.
Posted Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:30:22 GMT
Democrats demand Big 3 offer survival plan (Reuters)
Reuters - Democratic congressional leaders seeking to salvage a bailout of the Big Three automakers demanded car executives provide a business survival plan on Thursday in exchange for their support for up to $25 billion in loans.
Posted Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:50 GMT
Pa. Senate GOP has bragging rights in Northeast (AP)
AP - Republicans have controlled the Pennsylvania Senate for most of the last three decades, and now they have new bragging rights: The Senate is the last state legislative chamber in the Northeast in GOP hands.
Posted Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:55:55 GMT
Conservative Muscle on Display in House GOP Votes on Earmarks (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Conservatives are expected to be a stronger force among the shrunken ranks of House Republicans in the 111th Congress, and Thursday could provide a preview of that dynamic.
Posted Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:27:18 GMT
Senate Blocks Proposals To Aid U.S. Auto Industry (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked Democratic efforts to tap the $700 billion financial bailout package to provide emergency aid to the U.S. auto industry, and Democrats refused to permit a GOP compromise to advance.
Posted Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:16:16 GMT
Boehner re-elected House GOP leader (AP)
AP - House Republicans on Wednesday re-elected John Boehner as leader of their depleted ranks while putting together a more conservative team to represent them in the next, Democratic-controlled, Congress.
Posted Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:44:21 GMT
Stevens Concedes Defeat in Alaska, but GOP Campaign Chief Hopeful About Georgia, Maine (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - The 2008 campaign chief for Senate Republicans said Wednesday that he is resigned to having lost Alaska but is optimistic about hanging on to Senate seats in Minnesota and Georgia.
Posted Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:53:19 GMT
Boehner re-elected House Republican leader (Reuters)
Reuters - Ohio Republican Rep. John Boehner survived a challenge on Wednesday to remain leader of his party's shrinking minority in the U.S. House of Representatives, party aides said.
Posted Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:15:54 GMT
Ga. Democrat gets campaign help from Bill Clinton (AP)
AP - Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday appealed to Georgians to send Democrat Jim Martin to Washington arguing the state's hotly contested Senate runoff must provide a "bridge not a firewall" to the progress promised by President-elect Barack Obama.
Posted Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:28:47 GMT
Boehner Wins Second Term as House GOP Leader (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Minority Leader John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, won a second term Wednesday as the top House Republican by defeating Dan Lungren of California.
Posted Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:07:15 GMT
Could Iowa conservatives undermine GOP in 2012? (AP)
AP - Possible Republican presidential candidates already are making Iowa a winter destination four years before the leadoff caucuses, but some wonder if the state Republican Party's drift to the right could hurt its influence in choosing a nominee capable of winning back the White House.
Posted Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:12:15 GMT
McCain backer Lieberman keeps committee chair (AP)
AP - Sen. Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign.
Posted Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:23:59 GMT
Cold realities await Gov. Sarah Palin in Alaska (AP)
AP - Gov. Sarah Palin, heralded by some conservatives as the future of the Republican Party, faces some cold political realities in present-day Alaska.
Posted Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:19:47 GMT
Dems give Lieberman wrist slap over backing McCain (AP)
AP - Taking their cue from President-elect Barack Obama, Democrats in the Senate decided not to take revenge on Joe Lieberman despite lingering anger over the Connecticut independent's forceful support of John McCain over Obama in the presidential campaign.
Posted Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:26:10 GMT
PACs Put House Democrats on Top for First Time Since 1994 (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Democratic candidates for the U.S. House raised more money in the 2007-08 election cycle than their Republican counterparts. It is the first time that has occurred since the 1993-94 cycle -- the one in which an upsurge at the polls boosted the Republican Party to a House majority it would hold for a dozen years.
Posted Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:20:20 GMT
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