Republican Party

Senate Democrats need 60 votes, one more than they control since Scott Brown of Massachusetts was sworn into office last week, to clear a GOP procedural hurdle to advance Becker to final Senate confirmation. That procedural vote had been...

In this article: Ben Nelson, Scott Brown, National Labor Relations Board, GOP, Barack Obama, Afl-cio, Massachusetts, and Tom Harkin

...Republicans to put policy ideas on the table that Democrats believe they can exploit in the fall elections. After a year of suffering GOP attacks on the president's plans for healthcare and the economy, the White House and congressional...

In this article: Barack Obama, John Murtha, GOP, Ben Nelson, and White House

...that mean he will agree to start over?" said a letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel from House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio and GOP Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia. "If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing...

In this article: Barack Obama, GOP, White House, Gerry Connolly, John Boehner, Virginia, Robert Gibbs, and Rahm Emanuel

In this article: John McCain, J. D. Hayworth, Arizona, and Dick Armey

...major move to jump-start his health care agenda after his party's loss of a filibuster-proof Senate majority, Obama on Sunday invited GOP and Democratic leaders to discuss possible compromises in a half-day, televised gathering on Feb....

In this article: Barack Obama, GOP, White House, Darrell Issa, Scott Brown, Democracy, Christmas Eve, and Washington

...or does the dismal jobs picture trump everything? Perry Bacon Jr.: I think he wants 1. cast the GOP as not working with him, causing them to share the blame for the current problems in the country or 2. or get them to compomise and get...

In this article: Sarah Palin, GOP, Barack Obama, Tax, Rush Limbaugh, Washington, and Nancy Pelosi

...Tea Party groups and other conservatives. Though these activists have sprung from the right, they remain antagonistic toward the GOP establishment. The movement arose in part as a backlash against the government's intervention in Wall...

In this article: Jon Runyan and Florida

...budget legislation the Wisconsin Republican co-wrote. Released two days before the unusual back-and-forth session between Obama and the GOP, the bill sponsored by Ryan and five other House members would seek to reduce the deficit and spur...

In this article: Barack Obama, Paul D. Ryan, John A. Boehner, Medicare, Peter Orszag, Social Security, and Beneficiary

...immediate comment. Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, says Obama has the ability to prove he's serious about cutting the budget. GOP lawmakers say they need the workaround because Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi has refused to...

In this article: Barack Obama, GOP, Eric Cantor, Nancy Pelosi, White House, John Boehner, Washington, Virginia, and Ohio

A Republican takeover on Capitol Hill is still a long shot. But strategists in both parties now see at least narrow paths by which the GOP could win the House and, if the troubled environment for Democrats deteriorates further, possibly even...

In this article: GOP, Barack Obama, Washington, Evan Bayh, Massachusetts, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Barbara Boxer