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Sep 25 2013
News
Senate advances ObamaCare, budget bill after marathon Cruz speech
he Senate voted Wednesday to advance a controversial bill that would both avert a government shutdown while defunding ObamaCare, after Sen. Ted Cruz delivered a marathon 21-hour speech in a bid to rally public opposition to the health care law.
Despite Cruz's efforts, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid is expected to swiftly strike the ObamaCare language, leaving only a stopgap
Fox News DigitalSep 23 2013
News
Clock Ticks as Senate Begins Budget Work
Senate leaders will start work Monday on a bill to fund federal agencies into the new fiscal year, but it remains unclear whether Congress can finish the job in time to avoid a partial government shutdown.
Congress is locked in a partisan dispute over the terms for funding the government for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, little more than a week away. Voting along party lines, the
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 13 2015
News
Ted Cruz passes Donald Trump in Iowa, Bernie Sanders edges out Hillary Clinton in N.H.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz has surged past Donald Trump and opened up a 10-point lead in the early caucus state of Iowa, according to a new poll released Sunday.
Mr. Cruz led the field with 31 percent of the vote among likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa, followed by Mr. Trump with 21 percent, according to the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll.
The
Washington TimesMar 13 2016
News
Donald Trump loses badly in Wyoming, Washington DC Republican contests
Ted Cruz wins in Wyoming while Marco Rubio celebrates victory in the US capital. Donald Trump was badly defeated in contests on Saturday in the US capital and Wyoming, suggesting that the race for the Republican nomination for the 2016 presidential election is tightening. The bombastic real estate mogul may be ahead in national polls and in party delegates, but Florida senator Marco Rubio
The Telegraph - UKJan 07 2015
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Mitch McConnell: Obama will determine how much new Congress works
Ending gridlock in Washington will require a change of heart by President Obama, the Senate’s new leader said Wednesday in laying out terms for getting things done on Capitol Hill this year, now that Republicans have majorities in both chambers.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who was recognized as majority leader Tuesday, said in a commentary piece for CNN that Congress
Washington TimesApr 25 2019
News
Joe Biden Joins 2020 Democratic Presidential Race
Former Vice President Joe Biden said he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, launching a third bid for the White House as a blue-collar stalwart in a party hungry to defeat President Trump.
Mr. Biden made his long-awaited announcement Thursday in an online video posted nearly 32 years after he began his first presidential campaign in June 1987.
Mr. Biden
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 28 2012
News
Bipartisan shock on Hill at health ruling
It was the ruling no one was expecting. So when the Supreme Court upheld the the Affordable Care Act in a 5-4 vote, the overwhelming reaction on Capitol Hill was shock of joy for Democrats and disappointment for Republicans.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77987.html#ixzz1z7xJULQv
PoliticoMay 05 2015
News
Mike Huckabee and the Continuing Influence of Evangelicals
The religious right remains the largest voting bloc in the Republican Party, and that gives Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, the potential to play a big role in the presidential nominating contest.
But Mr. Huckabee, who was set to announce his presidential bid Tuesday morning, will have a harder time winning Iowa than he did in 2008, when religious conservatives had serious
New York Times (News)Feb 13 2013
News
Embattled Hagel clears key Senate hurdle
Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday narrowly approved the choice of Chuck Hagel to serve as President Barack Obama's next defense secretary, sending the controversial nomination to the full Senate. Hagel's nomination cleared the committee in a straight party line 14 to 11 vote. No Republicans backed the former Nebraska GOP senator, a decorated Vietnam veteran who has come
CNN DigitalAug 01 2019
Opinion
Trump Says The Things You Can’t Say
As I sit in an airport lounge, the CNN feed on the big screen (mercifully silent and utterly ignored except by me) has a chyron reading “POLITICS OF HATE: TRUMP USING RACISM AS A POLITICAL STRATEGY IN NEW RHETORIC.” His “hate crime” was pointing out that Democrats have failed our inner city citizens and that lib pols need to stop doing such a terrible job. You would think that if Trump
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