House republican leaders plan summer tax cut vote
25 May 2012, 3:33 pm
The House will vote this summer on continuing wide-ranging tax cuts first enacted under President George W. Bush, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Friday as the GOP sharpened its plans for confronting ...

republican candidates in Missouri's US senate race will debate on Ozarks CW
25 May 2012, 2:56 pm
Front runners Congressman Todd Akin, Businessman John Brunner and former Missouri treasurer Sarah Steelman will face-off WILLARD, Mo. -- The republican candidates in Missouri's US senate race will debate during a live broadcast on the Ozarks CW tonight, May 25. They're fighting for the right to face democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill in the November election.

republican Senate hopefuls debate Friday night
25 May 2012, 10:53 am
Four Virginia republicans running for U.S. Senate will meet in Falls Church Friday evening for the third and final debate before the June 12 primary. The front-runner, former senator and governor George Allen, is likely to take the most heat from his three distant rivals: Del. Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William), tea party activist Jamie Radtke and Chesapeake minister E.W. Jackson. Read full ...

Military Spending Cuts Looming, republican Rediscover Keynesianism
25 May 2012, 8:44 am
Senator Harry Reid's threat to slash Pentagon spending has sparked a red hot streak of republican Keynesianism. The economic theory advocating short-term public spending in a recession followed by boom time debt reduction is heretical in modern republican parlance, but GOP lawmakers are making an exception when defense spending is at stake.  

republican Control Doubles Funds for Chairmen: BGOV Barometer
25 May 2012, 6:14 am
The republican takeover of the U.S. House doubled campaign donations for lawmakers who gained committee chairmanships with the change in control. For the chamber’s typical rank-and-file republican, the majority premium has meant a 36 percent increase in fundraising.

Will Texas' republican establishment take a hit in U.S. Senate election?
25 May 2012, 1:27 am
Will Texas' republican establishment take a hit in U.S. Senate election? Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 04:58 p.m., Thursday, May 24, 2012 After Indiana republicans unceremoniously booted 36-year Senate veteran Richard Lugar and Nebraskans rejected the establishment ...

republican candidates divided on no-tax-increase pledge
24 May 2012, 11:16 pm
When it comes to life's realities, republicans aren't fond of death, but they despise taxes.

republican state house challenger angered after his own party calls him a 'Democrat plant'
23 May 2012, 6:48 pm
Learn what first-time political candidate Tom DeVault had to say about claims made against him and the reason he entered the primary race.

Obama defends foreign policy from republican criticism
23 May 2012, 1:16 pm
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday staunchly defended his foreign policy record against republican election-year criticism that he has overseen a decline in American power in the world. Addressing graduating cadets of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Obama touted his decisions on pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq, winding down the unpopular war in Afghanistan, and ...

N.H republican apologizes for calling former GOP official "stripper"
22 May 2012, 2:51 pm
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A republican New Hampshire legislator has apologized for calling a former state GOP official who endorsed his political rival a "stripper" and a "pole dancer," party members said on Tuesday. The outburst at a GOP picnic over the weekend in Goffstown, New Hampshire, targeted Pam Manney, 55, a grandmother of four and former vice chairwoman of the state ...