AP - Senate Republicans have vowed to kill organized labor’s top legislative priority of the year, and it looks like they’ll soon get their chance.
AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday told hundreds of anti-abortion activists that his conversion to their cause is genuine as he sought to fend off rivals’ criticism that he’s inconsistent on the issue.
CQPolitics.com - Who knew that Scooter Libby could become a presidential campaign issue? But it makes sense, given that the former White House aide — who was convicted and sentenced to jail for lying to a grand jury in the CIA leak case — has many Republican defenders who want to see him stay out […]
Rasmussen Reports - Arizona Senator John McCain (R) began the Election 2008 season as the presumed frontrunner for the GOP nomination. Now, he is struggling to stay ahead of Mitt Romney for third place in the hearts and minds of Republican Primary voters. The trends aren't encouraging for the war hero who challenged then-Governor Bush […]
CQPolitics.com - The political affiliate of a national conservation group is airing radio advertisements in the districts of five House Republicans from the West, who are described by the group as having their “heads in the sand” on legislative efforts to call attention to and curb global warming.
AP - House Republicans who larded legislation with lawmakers’ pet projects when they ran the House have successfully forced Democrats to be more open about Congress’ pork barrel ways.
AFP - The leader of US Senate Republicans on Thursday warned Myanmar that the wider world, and its southeast Asian neighbors, were becoming increasingly "outraged" with its suppression of democracy.
U.S. News & World Report - Politics are pretty personal in Wyoming; after all, the Cowboy State is home to only about 515,000 folks. So the process of filling the Senate seat left vacant by the June 4 death of Craig Thomas feels pretty personal, too. The Wyoming GOP is advertising the job on its […]
CQPolitics.com - Pennsylvania's Phil English is a member of the big House Republican Class of 1994 — the one that ushered in a GOP majority that lasted for a dozen years until Democrats overturned it in last year's elections. Though he prevailed against the strong partisan tide to win a seventh term in 2006, […]
CQPolitics.com - Topic No. 1 for Republican senators meeting with President Bush on June 12 was also topic No. 1 for senior House Democratic whips who huddled in private the same day to consider what to do about immigration overhaul legislation.
