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Republican effort to rebrand the party takes a hit
WASHINGTON — As the new Congress began this year, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia sought to redefine the Republican Party as focused on "making life work" for ordinary Americans. Surveys showed that the public had tired of the...
Tags: Culture, Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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Republican lawmakers show their division on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — The divide within the Republican Party over immigration reform was on full view Monday, as top party leaders made a case for overhauling the laws even as conservative senators argued that the Boston bombings showed the need to go slow....
Tags: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Patrick Leahy, Rand Paul, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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McManus: A tax everyone can love
The chairmen of Congress' primary tax committees, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), have launched a bipartisan effort to reform our messy, inefficient federal tax law. They've agreed to look for ways to lower tax rates on both...
Tags: Jay Carney, Bob Inglis, Global Warming, Republican Party, Vehicles
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Chasm divides gun control and gun rights advocates
SACRAMENTO — "Living in parallel universes," is how Senate leader Darrell Steinberg describes it. Gun control and gun rights advocates "talking past each other." Emanating from different cultures, incapable of agreeing on how to make us all...
Tags: Firearms, Mark Leno, Loni Hancock, Laws, Personal Weapon Control
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Immigration proposal, and its small GOP opposition, is unveiled
— Moments before a group of eight senators unveiled a sweeping bipartisan immigration overhaul Thursday, a smaller group launched the GOP opposition. Led by Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the Republican push-back emerged as a muted affair....
Tags: AFL-CIO, John McCain, Republican Party, Migration, Barack Obama
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Immigration bill would be largest such effort ever attempted
WASHINGTON — After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of eight senators is poised to offer a sweeping bill to rewrite the nation's immigration laws this week, taking advantage of a changed political alignment that, for the first time in...
Tags: Jay Carney, Fox News Channel (tv network), Republican Party, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Healthcare an obstacle as Republicans court Latinos
WASHINGTON — As Republican leaders try to woo Latino voters with a new openness to legal status for the nation's illegal immigrants, the party remains at odds with America's fastest-growing ethnic community on another key issue: healthcare....
Tags: Lawyers, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Minority Groups, State of the Union Address
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Immigration reform -- a conservative approach
A consensus has been building about the need to reform and modernize our immigration system. While I am optimistic that Republicans, including "tea party" members, will support reform, it must be done right. We must create a system for the 21st century...
Tags: Laws, Republican Party, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights
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Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...
Tags: Bank Robbery, Minority Groups, Butter, Pakistan, Students
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Senate debate over drones divides Republican Party
WASHINGTON -- A sudden debate over the potential use of unmanned drones against terrorist suspects in the United States touched off a power struggle within the Republican Party on Thursday, even as the Senate confirmed President Obama’s CIA...
Tags: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Fox News Channel (tv network), Republican Party, Dianne Feinstein, Government
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Mitch McConnell may miss sharing the spotlight with Ashley Judd
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for reelection next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie, while...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Republican Party, Ashley Judd, Harry Reid, Celebrities
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'Stupid': Alan Simpson gores GOP on immigration, Obama on budget
CODY, Wyo.--Alan Simpson has spent the better part of two years flying around the country ticking people off, though that's putting it more politely than the former Wyoming senator does. Simpson is the Republican half of the Simpson-Bowles duo...Tags: Minority Groups, Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights
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