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Politics - Republican Party
Dems, GOP warily eye Arizona immigration ruling
(AP)
29 Jul 2010 at 6:29pm
AP - On the surface, a judge's decision to block tough provisions of Arizona's immigration law was a defeat for the state's Republican governor and a win for the Democratic Obama administration. But neither party is sure it will play out that way politically, either this fall or beyond.
Republicans block small business plan in Senate
(Reuters)
29 Jul 2010 at 4:38pm
Reuters - Senate Republicans blocked a $30-billion plan to help community banks boost lending to small businesses, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's election-year battle to reduce unemployment.
Rep Rangel faces charges, trial may hurt Democrats
(Reuters)
29 Jul 2010 at 4:30pm
Reuters - Representative Charles Rangel reached a tentative plea agreement on ethics charges on Thursday, but Republicans may reject it and push for a trial that could hurt his fellow Democrats in the November elections.
Republicans block small business lending bill
(AP)
29 Jul 2010 at 4:02pm
AP - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's election-year jobs agenda suffered a new setback Thursday when Senate Republicans blocked a bill creating a $30 billion government fund to help open up lending for credit-starved small businesses.
Republican concerns could stall START treaty
(Reuters)
29 Jul 2010 at 1:17pm
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Republicans voiced objections on Thursday to the new START nuclear arms treaty with Russia, raising concerns that could delay efforts to hand President Barack Obama a foreign policy victory ahead of the November elections.
(AP)
29 Jul 2010 at 11:18am
AP - Ethics committee outlines 13 charges against Rep. Charles Rangel.
McInnis vows to stay in Colo. governor's race
(AP)
28 Jul 2010 at 8:27pm
AP - Scott McInnis says if he wins the Republican primary for Colorado governor, he'll stay in the race despite calls that he bow out because of concerns that he can't win in November.
GOP Gains Weren't Always Inevitable This Year
(CQPolitics.com)
28 Jul 2010 at 8:01pm
CQPolitics.com - Sometimes, you can almost hear the conventional wisdom and expectations shift, even when they are based on faulty premises.
GOP Weighs Simmons Factor in Connecticut
(CQPolitics.com)
28 Jul 2010 at 8:00pm
CQPolitics.com - It may not matter that Rob Simmons has become a candidate again in the race to become Connecticut's next Senator.
Another NRCC Recruit Will Be Tested in a Primary
(CQPolitics.com)
28 Jul 2010 at 8:00pm
CQPolitics.com - Tennessee's 8th district GOP primary is shaping up to be more than just an unusually expensive intraparty fight. It's become a marquee race that carries high risk and the potential of a big reward for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
For veterans bill, Republicans put budget ax aside
(AP)
28 Jul 2010 at 6:40pm
AP - House Republicans who have spent months demanding spending cuts blanched Wednesday at their first opportunity to actually make them, instead joining Democrats in treating a bill to pay for veterans programs in 2011 as politically sacrosanct in an election year.
Key Republican calls Kagan a 'dangerous' nominee
(AP)
28 Jul 2010 at 3:27pm
AP - Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan picked up more GOP backing Wednesday in her drive toward near-certain confirmation next week, even as a top Republican lashed out at her as "dangerous."
When the Tax Hikes Are Coming
(U.S. News & World Report)
28 Jul 2010 at 2:00pm
U.S. News & World Report - If you love class warfare, your moment has arrived. The next several weeks, leading up to the November elections, are sure to be filled with resounding political invective over who should pay for Washington's profligate spending over the last decade. Democrats will argue that the rich and near-rich should pony up, since they have the most money to start with. Republicans will point to the needy, arguing that they've been getting too much aid for too long. Tea Partiers will struggle to decide whose benefits should be cut in order to achieve the smaller government they envision. ...
NH GOP Senate front-runner hits a few bumps
(AP)
28 Jul 2010 at 1:02pm
AP - Kelly Ayotte, the tough former prosecutor and wife of an Iraq war vet, seemed to be on a glide path to the Republican nomination in New Hampshire and perhaps the Senate.
Reid's Energy Bill Revives Fight Over Hydraulic Fracturing
(CQPolitics.com)
28 Jul 2010 at 10:49am
CQPolitics.com - Senate Republicans and small oil and gas producers are crying foul over a provision in Majority Leader Harry Reid's energy bill that would impose new chemical disclosure requirements on a controversial onshore drilling technique.
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