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Obama: GOP should let small business bill through
Posted by fireking1 7 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
Obama challenges GOP on campaign finance ruling
Posted by Zerosen1993 16 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — President Barack Obama says Republicans should join him in opposing a Supreme Court ruling that vastly increased how much corporations and unions can spend on campaign ads.
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Obama claims GOP trying to destroy Social Security
Posted by Calimehtar 23 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama used the anniversary of Social Security to trumpet Democrats' support for the popular program and accuse Republicans of trying to destroy it.
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GOP looks to erase Democrats' comfy House majority
Posted by rhodan842 29 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
WASHINGTON — No fewer than 65 House seats across the country — an overwhelming majority held by Democrats — are at risk of changing political hands this fall, enough to bolster Republican hopes of regaining power and stoke fears in President Barack Obama's party of losing it.
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Immigration divides conservatives among Texas GOP
Posted by Ragegamer 37 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
Evangelicals call for a path to citizenship without the deportation of millions. But fiscal and hard right conservatives say illegal immigrants broke the law and should be deported before being given a chance to re-enter the country.
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Obama to GOP: Restore jobless benefits
Posted by TerrorKing 49 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
GOP lawmakers say they will support an extension of the benefits only if the bill is paid for and doesn't add to the national debt
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Obama: GOP blocking unemployed, small business aid
Posted by DarthRift 51 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says Senate Republicans are playing politics with bills that would extend benefits to the unemployed and increase lending to small businesses.
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Democrats resist GOP bid to nationalize election
Posted by Garudamgs 62 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans are framing the elections in starkly different terms, with GOP strategists painting it as a national referendum on President Barack Obama and the party in power, and Democrats working feverishly to make all politics local.
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GOP ties bind Green Party candidates in Texas case
Posted by Tinselteeth 69 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
Even if allegations about an illegal petition drive are true, knocking Green Party candidates off the November general election ballot before they can be proven imposes "a death penalty," lawyers for the party argued Monday in a written appeal to the Texas Supreme Court.
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Emanuel links fall elections to GOP support of BP
Posted by LordKaien 78 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
The White House is relishing what it sees as "a political gift" — GOP criticism of the administration for pushing BP for a $20 billion compensation fund — and warning of the danger if voters put big business-backing Republicans back in power.
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State GOP chief from Houston tackles party's big debt
Posted by Rupert484 79 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
Even as Texas Republicans anticipate soul-stirring victories across the state this fall, their party faces the baleful prospect of immediate bankruptcy.
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Some GOP stalwarts defect to Bill White
Posted by Kelenloth 81 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
A number of them are ex-Kay Bailey Hutchison backers, the type of voters the Democratic former Houston mayor needs to defeat Gov. Rick Perry.
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Perry rouses state GOP delegates with familiar issues
Posted by qwerty52395 82 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
Rick Perry fired up delegates to the Republican state convention on Friday by telling them that they are “engaged in a struggle for the very heart of this state, in a contest to determine the role of government in our lives."
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Texas GOP gets tougher on immigration
Posted by Straightos 85 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
But some say a platform urging a criminal offense "for an illegal alien" to be in Texas will make it hard for the party to draw Latinos.
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2 from Houston take top Texas GOP jobs
Posted by yellowbell 86 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
After a chaotic roll call, delegates replace conservative chair Cathie Adams with exec Steve Munisteri, and voted activist Melinda Fredricks as vice-chairwoman.
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Texas GOP feels tea party's force at convention
Posted by aaron4sho 86 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
The tea party movement has been a force in national politics over the last year and a half, but Friday marked the beginning of the first Texas Republican convention to feel the impact of the disaffected conservative movement.
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GOP to open state convention on optimistic note
Posted by Spartan504 88 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
As Texas Republicans descend on Dallas this week for their annual convention, they are energized to a degree they didn't expect this time last year.
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Kagan unlikely to see GOP filibuster on nomination
Posted by cronoman2 112 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is unlikely to face a GOP filibuster but should expect difficult questions from lawmakers who will decide whether she deserves the lifetime appointment despite having no judicial experience, the Senate's second-ranking Republican said Sunday.
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Grand Prairie's GOP mayor backs Democrat Bill White
Posted by Jehezekel 128 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
Charles England said Bill White would bring Texans together to tackle the state's budget problems.
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Hutchison's choice to stay in Senate warms national GOP
Posted by Aproydtix 158 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's “hard decision” Wednesday to serve her full term of office rather than resign was a relief to her national party, but left ambitious Texas Republican politicians stifled from running for higher office.
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Some in GOP fear ‘repeal the bill' will backfire in vote
Posted by valarauko87 159 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
For Republicans, urging a full repeal of the law will energize conservative activists whose turnout is crucial this year. But it also carries risks, say strategists in both parties.
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GOP adopts 'repeal and replace' plan for health care
Posted by poopdecker 163 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
Repeal the new health care overhaul and replace it with something better, says the Senate's top Republican.
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Less quirky than dad, Ron Paul's son leads in GOP Ky. race
Posted by jiggibidy 177 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
Despite their many similarities, Rand Paul is far less of a quirky outsider than his iconoclast father. The younger Paul is running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Kentucky.
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Obama, GOP at crossroads on health care
Posted by Seabassownz 184 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
He wants the public and Democrats to get behind his late-stage push on the issue while Republicans demand starting from scratch.
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Hutchison feels GOP pressure to stay put
Posted by OmegaBreak 185 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
Defeated in the governor primary, Kay Bailey Hutchison will base her Senate decision on her children's needs, a friend says.
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