Social conservatives say they deserve seat at table in retooled GOP
Republicans' soul searching following the 2012 election could shortchange social conservatives, who say they're hardly to blame for the party's difficulties at the polls.
View ArticleIowa's GOP governor: End the Ames straw poll
First Read: A major staple of the Republican presidential nominating process — the straw poll of Republicans at the Iowa State Fair in Ames — could go by the wayside if Iowa's GOP governor gets his way.
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Not everyone is moving on from election loss
First Read: Mitt Romney has a private lunch with the President today to put the campaign behind them but the GOP candidate’s chief strategist defends the campaign strategy.
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Romney meets with Obama at White House lunch
The winner of the presidential election will meet with the man he defeated Thursday as President Barack Obama has lunch at the White House with Mitt Romney.
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Republicans protest Obama inaction on entitlements but ignore previous proposals
As Republicans position themselves in their wrestling match with President Barack Obama, their refrain has been that the president must be the one to propose cost-cutting reforms to the government’s...
View ArticleWhite House 'surprised' by GOP 'surprise'
First Read: White House Deputy Press Secretary, John Earnest, said Republicans shouldn't be surprised at the fiscal proposal they received from the president because it's based on the positions he has...
View ArticleObama presses Congress to extend middle-class tax cuts
First Read: President Obama continued his efforts to push Congress to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for income below $250,000 with a visit to a toy factory.
View ArticleHouse GOP: 'Stalemate' over fiscal cliff, not interested in 'rope-a-dope'
First Read: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said negotiations between the White House and Republicans are at a "stalemate" after a proposal by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White House...
View ArticleAfter criticism, GOP adds woman to chair House committee
First Read: After enduring negative headlines that all of the House Republican committee chairmanships will be filled by men in the next Congress, Republicans have found their woman.
View ArticleWashington remains far apart on fiscal cliff
First Read: With less than a month to go before deadline, the White House and Republicans remain in a stalemate over tax rates but the real negotiations have not yet begun.
View ArticleObama cuts campaign-style video on raising taxes for top 2 percent
First Read: In a new 2-minute Web video, President Obama is reminding people of exactly what he campaigned for during the election: higher taxes on those making $250,000 or more a year.
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Income tax rates just one piece of Obama proposal
Much rhetoric has focused on what President Barack Obama is proposing to do on income tax rates, but that’s just a part of the overall revenue total the president proposed raising from higher-income...
View ArticleGOP offers own proposal to avert 'fiscal cliff'
First Read: Republicans offered up their own proposal to avert the impending “fiscal cliff” on Monday amid Democratic demands that the GOP match the Obama administration’s plan with one of their own.
View ArticleFiscal cliff deal may be found in the middle
First Read: The GOP makes its counteroffer and, like the president’s proposal, it looks to play to the party’s base but the outlines of a serious deal can be found in elements of both.
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Boehner's fiscal cliff offer under friendly fire from right
House Speaker John Boehner received yet another reminder Tuesday of his principal challenge of finding a resolution to the fiscal cliff morass without alienating the core of his own party.
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A Biden dictionary record? No malarkey.
First Read: In new data announced Wednesday by Merriam-Webster, a much-quoted Bidenism from the 2012 campaign set a record for the year in online lookups during a single 24-hour period.
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More GOP voices ponder short-term fiscal fix
First Read: Some Republicans consider passing a middle-class tax cut extension now to get more leverage for a bigger battle down the road.
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Obama sees signs GOP might relent on tax hikes for wealthy
President Barack Obama suggested that some Republicans had begun to soften their opposition to increased tax rates on the wealthiest Americans, but sharply warned the GOP against looking to tie their...
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