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John Boehner reelected as speaker of the House
WASHINGTON -- John A. Boehner will keep his job as House speaker for a second term, as Republicans rallied behind their leader despite speculation that hard-line conservatives would abandon him. With 426 votes cast in a roll call of the new 113th...
Tags: Media Industry, Michael Grimm, Parties and Movements, Allen West, Democratic Party
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Will Senate bid lure Rogers from his House seat?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress — a working, productive relationship with Democrats in overseeing the nation's 16 spy agencies. The question now is whether the...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Bashar Assad, Dianne Feinstein, Mohamed Morsi
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U.S. Rep. Gary Peters expected to announce bid for Senate seat
Detroit Free PressU.S. Rep. Gary Peters is expected to announce his intention to run for Michigan's soon-to-be-open U.S. Senate seat on Wednesday in Rochester Hills. A Democratic source told the Free Press today that Peters, who had been widely expected to run, would...Tags: Detroit Free Press, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Republican Party, Politics, Elections
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Fight Club on the Hill
WASHINGTON -- House conservatives met Wednesday for the latest installment of their "Conversations with Conservatives" luncheon series, but they took their places on the dais without sampling the Chick-fil-A sandwiches and nuggets on offer. These days,...
Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Jim Jordan, Parties and Movements, Mick Mulvaney, Barack Obama
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One to watch from Michigan
WASHINGTON -- America's most interesting development since November is the Republican Party becoming more interesting. Consider the congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., who occupies the seat once held by Gerald Ford, embodiment of vanilla Republicanism....
Tags: Christianity, Ron Johnson, Barack Obama, Illegal Immigrants, Politics
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New bill would ease state-federal pot conflict
SEATTLE (AP) — A bill introduced in Congress on Friday would fix the conflict between the federal government's marijuana prohibition and state laws that allow medical or recreational use. California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said his bill,...
Tags: Dana Rohrabacher, Laws, Health Treatments, U.S. Department of Justice, Barack Obama
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Can anybody save the Republican Party?
The year 2012 was a disaster for the Republican Party. They failed to regain control of the U.S. Senate. They lost eight seats in the House of Representatives. They didn't just lose the White House to Barack Obama, they got clobbered: losing the Electoral...
Tags: David Vitter, Reince Priebus, Elections, Ted Cruz, Tea Party Movement
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Democrats face challenging Senate landscape
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a surprising string of victories last fall, Democrats now face a challenging terrain as they look to hold onto their Senate majority in 2014 and prevent Republicans from gaining full control of Congress during President...Tags: Kay Hagan, Tim Johnson, John D. Rockefeller IV, Regional Authority, Democratic Party
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Taxes to rise for most Americans with Fiscal Cliff deal
WASHINGTON — While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013. That's because the legislation did nothing to...
Tags: George W. Bush, Bill Huizenga, Parties and Movements, Personal Income, Barack Obama
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Amash Retains 3rd District Seat in U.S. House
It didn't come until well after midnight, but Rep. Justin Amash finally got the news he was waiting to hear: he had defeated challenger Steve Pestka and won the race for the congressional seat in Michigan's 3rd District. It was a race that brought in a...
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Hoekstra Will Join Fellow Republicans For GR Election Party
Anchor/ReporterWith all the hype surrounding the 2012 Presidential election, it's easy to forget that dozens of candidates in heated battles for the Senate, which taken together could decide the balance of power in Congress. Thirty-three of the 100 seats are up in...Tags: Netherlands, Republican Party, Politics, U.S. Senate, Elections
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3 races key to Mich. Congress delegation control
DETROIT (AP) — Republicans are heading into Election Day with a two-seat majority in Michigan's congressional delegation and high hopes of maintaining the edge, but three surprisingly close races have Democrats eyeing a previously unexpected...
Tags: Voting, Thaddeus McCotter, Vernon J Ehlers, Bill Huizenga, Parties and Movements
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