What the GOP is up to
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Prospect for auto bailout dims as Senate races clock (Reuters)
Reuters - Chances dimmed that a last-minute plan being crafted by Republican senators, with White House support, to provide $25 billion to bail out U.S. automakers would receive enough backing from Democrats to pass before the end of this week.
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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.
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Republican Campaign Chief Resigned to Alaska Defeat, Hopeful About Georgia, Minnesota (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.
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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.
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Ga. Democrat gets campaign help from Bill Clinton (AP)
AP - A Republican senator locked in a tight runoff said Wednesday that the GOP's loss in Alaska raises the stakes for his contest as the party struggles for votes to stand up to President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrats.
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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.
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Jockeying Continues Over Aid to U.S. Auto Industry (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - The Senate's top Democrat Wednesday sought to shift the burden of helping the auto industry onto the White House, but his Republican counterpart said a compromise may still be possible.
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Boehner Wins Second Term as House GOP Leader (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Minority Leader John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, defeated Dan Lungren of California, winning a second term as the top House Republican Wednesday.
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Boehner re-elected House GOP leader (AP)
AP - Rep. John Boehner is getting another term as House Republican leader as the party heads into a new era with a Democratic president and a strengthened Democratic majority.
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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.
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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.
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Auto Bailout Hopes Fade as Hoyer Raises Prospect of December Session (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Top Senate Republicans said Tuesday that an Energy Department loan program approved last year - not this year's $700 billion financial industry bailout program -- should be the source of aid for struggling domestic automakers.
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Critic won't try to expel Stevens from GOP group (AP)
AP - Convicted Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is remaining a member of the GOP conference in the Senate pending the outcome of his re-election bid.
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Senate GOP May Delay Vote on Stevens Pending Election Outcome (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Senate Republicans appeared likely to wait two more days before deciding the fate of Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, as they await a clear outcome to his Nov. 4 election contest.
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