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By margin of just couple of dozen or so, Back in Republican caucus Mitt Romney was declared the winner on the night. ..…
By margin of just couple of dozen or so, Back in Republican caucus Mitt Romney was declared the winner on the night. ..…
Physicians at EMW Women's Surgical Center Louisville, Kentucky's only abortion clinic, do not perform the procedure, and are not interested in doing so, . . Matt Bevin, Republican, and now by Cameron, Republican who took January vowing to defend laws to restrict abortion.. ..…
I quoted President Lincoln, when President Lincoln told General Sherman to let the troops go to Indiana so that they can vote for Republican Party. ..…
The senators cannot find it easy to speak of the president's opportunistic conduct with foreign countries, so silence is the most graceful position for Republican Party.. ..…
Republican Daniel Cameron was elected Kentucky's next attorney Tuesday — African American to ever win race for the office and Republican to do so in over 70 years.. ... Cameron was able to win Republican May with the support of his former boss McConnell and the..…
I guess the Left would say that we have evolved and yesterday was so Republican or conservative. ..…
South Dakota Republican Party Chair Dan Lederman issued statement that it was too bad SDDP's leadership decided they were bankrupt and in the arena of ideas.. The weight of finding solutions to the challenges and leading the state are on the shoulders of Republican Party even more..…
So, we know that Republican Party practices this particular brand of chicanery. ..…
it could have done so, Republican brief states.. And the statute is entitled to construction and should not be read in artificially restrictive way that would leave many Americans unprotected from sex-based discrimination, .. ..…
Are you Democrat, Republican, or Southerner. by. Here is little test that will help you decide.. ..…
He's set himself up Indiana governor who describes as Christian, conservative and Republican, in that order.. ... He said Democrats have to walk finer line than Republicans, 65 percent of Democratic primary voters are religious, compared to 84 percent of Republican voters.. ..…
The Chosen One while looking skyward, stranger he will shame us into voting Republican.. If so, he does not know damn thing about American Jews.. ..…
So yes, it's true that Republican Party found ruling the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the government, level. ..…
The Democrat-controlled House is not going to stop trying to limit the scope of in the process of expanding LGBTQ rights, so Republican leaders have to start taking their arguments seriously while they still control Senate... ..…
Having learned from Afghan experience that it's necessary to come up with the money before coming up with plan, Prince has been discussing Venezuela with Republican donors the so-called bankers and oligarchs that ran the country before the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998 forced many of..…
Having learned from Afghan experience that it's necessary to come up with the money before coming up with plan, Prince has been discussing Venezuela with Republican donors the so-called bankers and oligarchs that ran the country before the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998 forced many of..…
Those figures, Post noted, reflect the composition of Republican Party itself.. ... So did Andy McKean, Republican in Iowa legislature, when he defected April.. ..…
Republicans might be and because no other major news network was willing to compete directly with Fox for Republican eyeballs, so there's only one Republican view getting air time instead of half-a-dozen starkly different ideological flavors... ..…
So, three of us, Republican, Democrat and Independent, decided to create Prytany to close that gap and facilitate direct engagement among voters and with elected officials and candidates, .. ..…
so have the coalitions that make up both Republican and Democratic parties... ..…
The Justice Department would defend law, and Trump's administration has declined to do so in challenge by Republican-led states.. ... coalition of Republican-led states headed by Texas sued, alleging the elimination rendered Obamacare unconstitutional... ..…
then who is to be Republican nominee. Statistically, that's probably 30-1 chance given the demographics tables ( there are number of stories in the US press right now about how he seems to be struggling with his balance, and is often seen holding onto things. ... But all in all, the chances of..…
then who is to be Republican nominee. Statistically, that's probably 30-1 chance given the demographics tables ( there are number of stories in the US press right now about how he seems to be struggling with his balance, and is often seen holding onto things. ... But all in all, the chances of..…
The justices, in decision with the court's in the majority and liberals in dissent, sided with Democratic legislators Maryland and Republican lawmakers North Carolina. ... The lower court had decided that Republican-drawn districts were so politically biased that they violated..…
The lower court had decided that Republican-drawn districts were so politically biased that they violated the rights of voters under U.S. ... June 2018 failed to issue definitive rulings on partisan gerrymandering in two cases — this same one from Maryland and another involving..…
like Reproductive Health Act, Dream Act, Child Victims Act, all these bills that were prevented from passing for so many years because of Republican leadership, because of IDC, have now passed in both houses and these bills have been signed into law by the governor, .. ..…
Members of Congress left door meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week with message the administration has the authority to enter into conflict with Iran with or without Congress's say-so.. Conservative Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz and Democratic Representative Elissa..…
She repeatedly clashed with conservative justices, angering them so much that Republican legislators started pushing in 2015 that led to her as chief justice.. ..…
So, woe be to Republican seeker who has changed position on in light of new evidence, as the dreaded label of flip-flopper is except certain to be applied.. ..…
After Alabama's abortion ban, was passed, slew of Republican leaders expressed reservations about the law's lack of exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest... Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stated the law goes further than I believe, adding, in..…
If that makes us traitors -- or Democrats -- in the eyes of Republican party, then so be it... ..…
Why should American taxpayers continue to pay for Democratic and Republican Party primaries in. So, I am advocating that the movement and its leadership establish National Independent Voter Presidential Primary for the 2020 elections and make it permanent part of America's electoral..…
Even so, rs of the Northern Irish Troubles knew IRA hardliners remained. ... This so-called New IRA was formed from those Republican paramilitaries who did not believe in the Northern Irish peace process, along with young, impoverished, and unemployed youth. ..…
Think back for the 10 or 15 years over Republican Party primaries, and remember what happened during the primaries. Each primary, they were so outlandish that Republican establishment tried to crush them and succeeded in doing it — Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum...…
The other 38 states and District of Columbia, are ignored because they are so in voting either Republican or Democrat every four years... ... Over the last eight presidential elections from 1988 to 2016, total of 5,429,496 Oregonians cast their popular votes for Republican..…
It may have faded from most memory by now, and in the 2016 primaries Republican Party was bedeviled by the question of Iraq, specifically whether the war was mistake. ... The in White House refused to so they made up their own intelligence.. ..…
House, to have made up his mind on running against Senate Republican member. ... Cornyn is the candidate so far to have announced for Republican ticket and is expected to remain unopposed in the primary process... ..…
The Tennessee Republican Party's committee last year passed resolution asking Tennessee General Assembly to close primary elections in the state. Andy Holt's bill that would have done so.. Despite support from state Republican, Republican lawmakers opposed the..…
It passed Senate last December and not the Republican-controlled House, so it was revived again in Senate this year.. ..…
It passed Senate last December and not the Republican-controlled House, so it was revived again in Senate this year. ... In Vanity Fair profile published Wednesday, Senate candidate who lost to Republican Ted Cruz last November said to his interviewer, that I want to run. ..…
While four currently serving GOP senators voted for Employment Non-Discrimination Act, only one Republican senator has so far backed Equality Act Susan Collins of Maine. ..…
Wayne Hoffman and Idaho Republican Party felt so bad about losing their fight over Medicaid Expansion that they took their pouting all the way to Idaho Supreme Court. ... let's ask questions through clear, not red Republican or blue Democrat, except clear glasses at Medicaid..…
The fact that so many Republican members of Congress are fine with it's further evidence that both Congress and Republican Party have become nest of capons -- and even weaker than that strutting in Rose Garden... ..…
This cancerous form of anti-immigrant politics has become central to California Republicanism, so much so that John Cox, the so-called moderate Republican in 2018, ran the most anti-immigrant and anti- Latino in the state's history. . ... Mike Madrid is GOP..…
., Republican from North Carolina whose about-face on Iraq War came to define his congressional service, died Sunday on his 76th birthday, his office confirmed.. ... Bush, and he was House Republican to vote against Republican tax bill in 2017 — he said the measure would add..…
Things got so dire that Republican in 2017 overrode Brownback to get rid of the cuts and balance Ways Tax Reform Has Impacted the Muni Market. Still, Republican hold the most trifectas, controlling 23 states to Democrats 14.. ..…
Just including the whole state of Indiana, so white nationalism has taken over Republican Party today, including GOP on SCOTUS.. ..…
Maryland remains Democratic state, Hogan easily won re-election, Republican in the state to do so in 64 years... We did not demand Republican solutions or Democratic solutions we sought out bipartisan, common-sense solutions that worked for the people of Maryland... ..…
By the scandal should be valued like gold, During the, that any Republican not touched. So he and Donald Rumsfeld schemed to fill power vacuum in Gerald Ford White House. ..…
The Farr nomination led to public scolding of GOP by one of its own, South Carolina's Tim Scott, the only black Republican in Senate. ... Trump is the dominant figure in Republican Party, so I expect GOP officials to mirror his approach of either largely ignoring or actively..…
Speaking to Alabama Farmers Federation's annual meeting, Gingrich also downplayed Republican losses in U.S. ... Republican base was so angry at Washington they had given up the hope of regular reforms and they wanted someone to kick over the table, .. ..…
Earlier this year, about the potential for Republican Party to end the Year of Woman 2.0 with Congress than it started with, and sure enough, the ranks of Republican in House have been cut in half.. I conducted surveys of Republican voters both pre- and post- election what they..…
Then, with prodding from his rival, New York Nelson Rockefeller, at GOP convention July 1960 Nixon used his influence as the nominee to strengthen Republican rights plank so it matched the one adopted earlier by Democratic convention.. ..…
Votes being manufactured almost at will, and the only reason Florida is to be overturned is that the lead for Republican candidate is so large. ..…
And Democrats Jennifer Zimmerman, Florida's 1st Congressional District, lost to Republican Matt Gaetz. ... So, for the future it seems likely that Democrats will be the beneficiary, especially because Republican Party has become so tied to Trump and his anti-immigrant..…
Whitaker, whom President Donald Trump announced made the comments during failed 2014 run for Republican Senate Iowa... And so the question is, of Iowa or some other state to nullify Obamacare and pay the consequences for that... ..…
vote for even Republican is vote for Republican Speaker of House and Republican Senate Majority Leader. ... It's unfortunate that Stewart is to take down members of Congress like Barbara Comstock in District, and if it means that Republican Party of Virginia learns..…
Republican, Congresswoman Barbara Comstock, has held the seat since the 2014 elections, succeeding another Republican, Frank Wolf. ... In the Sixth Congressional District, in the northern part of Virginia's Appalachian region, far-right Republican Bob Goodlatte is retiring,..…
So Republican Party replaced Gingrich with a so-called values guy named Bob Livingston.. affair led to Livingston's retirement, so Republican Party replaced him with a so-called values guy named Dennis Hastert. ..…
In so doing, that Trump and Republican candidates for federal and state office have made with increasing insistence over the past few weeks, possibly fatal political liability... ..…
Kavanaugh, appearing for his second day of arguments as justice, asked whether Supreme Court should be superimposing time limit into the statute when Congress, at least as I read it, did not do so... The Maine Republican, crucial vote on Brett Kavanaugh's to Supreme Court, name-dropped..…
The majority of Louisianans united behind Republican-led idea of implementing reforms that have helped other red states reduce their prison populations, spending levels and crime rates.. ... In, the reforms from Republican states have been so successful that they are serving..…
blacks remain less likely the share who marriage has also increased over the past decade Today 51% of blacks support same-sex in 2007, just 26% did so.. ... Majorities of Republican Baby Boomers and Republican Silents continue to oppose same-sex marriage.. ..…
If Republican Congress members were so eager to destroy the health care system for millions of Americans for no good reason, this seems like small potatoes... ..…
Democrats did the same thing in states like Rhode Island and Maryland, so this is not Republican- Democratic issue, out.. Of course, our neighbors to the south, Illinois, Democrats have been doing this for years to Republicans, so this could change the standard nationwide... ..…
The effort that has been in the past decade -- raising money, mobilizing voters particularly primary races, helping to elect Republican Congress 40 years, forcing moderate Republican candidates to move to the right -- appears to be fading.. ... But Republican strategists and..…
Still, Powell felt he wanted Republican to replace him, so he retired in 1987, and Reagan named his successor, Justice Anthony Kennedy.. ... I think, Republican appointees have tended to retire during Republican administrations and Democratic appointees during..…
But among the leading candidates for this year's Republican nomination, not one is member of Protestant denominations that for so long have dominated American political culture.. ..…
Bluestem Prairie reports the listening sessions announced so far are taking place Republican-held districts... ..…
As result, while the so-called generic ballot favors Democrats, the electorate is more favorable to Republican candidates than the electorate. the result is more divided 44% support Democratic candidate, 47% support Republican candidate.. ..…
So far, Chamber's ads have favored Republican's 93 percent of the time. ... Russ Feingold, cleared House this summer and was stymied by Republican in Senate.. ..…
Even so, Disaffecteds lean toward Republican Party and, most of those who did supported Bush's reelection.. Republican Party's with the center makes up for the fact that GOP-oriented groups, when taken together, account for only 29% of the public. ..…
Cindy Hyde-Smith is to receive majority of the vote on Nov 6 which will include Republican state Sen. So the race will move to Nov 27 runoff.. Hyde-Smith is to win the in the end, and media outlets might be reluctant to declare majority, especially after Democrats won Senate special.....…
A government needs lot of money, so Republican ideology is made possible primarily Americans.. ... Trump is the indicator of the creative destruction of Republican political structure.. ..…
But Trump and Cruz are so unpopular among Republican and Democratic voters that Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders lead them in matchups recent polls.. ..…
Throughout much of American history, Republican Party has been the party of big manufacturers and the. ... Pro-inflation interests like estate developers and other large debtors have discovered that there is no more room at the in the tight credit, pro-Wall Street Democratic Party, so..…
sources like the have already published stories espousing the theory that Trump, has been claiming Republican order to look bad and destroy the party from within. Trump has been destroying Hispanic opinion of Republican party, which just so happens to be one of the demographics..…
The reason there is House Leadership in the first place is so why would Republican party put someone. ..…
So far, many of the super donors that have given big to the party committees, also have history of writing big checks to PACs.. Together with his wife, he contributed $453,600 so far this year to the National Republican Congressional Committee — the maximum allowed before FEC..…
So far, 28 states have expanded their Medicaid programs, while 22 states — mainly with Republican-controlled state legislatures, have opted out, citing cost as their primary reason for not expanding. ..…
Republicans are eager to end the shutdown and move ahead with the fiscal and economic reforms that our country so needs, in Republican address on Saturday.. ..…
So let's recap House Republican leaders mind-set here violence protections for women. ..…
Eaton, 34, has campaigned for Republican, and his father attended so many Republican conventions that he's created a shrine of plaques that covers in the family home... ... Voters need remember little more U.S senator, came under fire for his switch from Republican to..…
Nationally, Republican Party has picked up at least House seats so far, more than the 54 it won in the landslide. ... with incandescent base, it's plausible to conclude they will never have the acumen to do so.. ..…
So, I have questions for Republican Are you suggesting the goal of the party is to grind the government to halt, unless the president agrees to Republican principles. ..…
So said Republican state Supreme Court Michael Krancer Saturday during the day of weekend-long meeting of Pennsylvania conservatives... ... Pat Toomey of Allentown has not ruled out Republican bid for in 2010 or second run for U.S. ..…
Some historians argue that one factor that helped Abraham Lincoln lead North to in Civil War was Republican Party, and so Jefferson Davis had far cooperation from other Southern political leaders. ..…
Friends and foes of former Republican State Chairman Richard Foley were surprised Wednesday by his indictment, and Republicans said the federal charges will have no negative effects on their party.. ... Republican, John Mastropietro, said, I'm not so concerned as to how it..…