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Parties Vow to Seek Common Ground After Election
In an acknowledgment of the Republican Party’s new dominance in Congress, President Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell , soon to be leader of the Senate, tentatively began charting a path forward Wednesday on trade, taxes and other policy matters.
A phone conversation between the two men, who have had a distant and prickly relationship, underscored the new political landscape that Mr. Obama will face in his final two years in office: a Senate that has slipped from his party’s control and a Republican majority in the House on...
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Can GOP, Obama find common ground? New Congress eyes Keystone, ObamaCare, tax code
Building the Keystone XL oil pipeline, overhauling the tax code and easing "excessive" regulations blamed for slow economic growth are at the top of the agenda for the new Republican majority in Congress.
But absent from a Wall Street Journal opinion piece penned by House Speaker John Boehner and presumptive Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is any mention of immigration, which President Obama has vowed to pursue via the executive pen. The president also vowed to veto any attempts to repeal ObamaCare -- which is front and center on...
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Newly Empowered, Mitch McConnell Promises an End to ‘Gridlock’
Fresh from his own re-election victory and his party’s powerful showing nationwide, Senator Mitch McConnell on Wednesday pledged to break the stalemate in Washington as newly empowered congressional Republicans moved quickly to demonstrate that they can get things done. “We’re going to pass legislation,” Mr. McConnell said at a news conference in Louisville, Ky. “This gridlock and dysfunction can be ended.”
Despite their new majority in the Senate and an expanded one in the House, Republicans face multiple difficulties, not the least of which are internal divisions. But t
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