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John Boehner today is poised to win a second term as U.S. House speaker, even as there are signs his authority within the Republican caucus is shrinking and he has fewer levers to use to impose order.
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Republican Representative Darrell Issa has many questions he wants President Barack Obama’s administration to answer: Why wasn’t more security outside the Benghazi consulate? Is the White House encouraging federal contractors to flout the law by not sending pre-election layoff warnings to workers who may lose their jobs to spending cuts?
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Republicans in the U.S. Congress were uniting behind a call to repeal all or part of the 2010 financial regulatory overhaul. Since JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced its $2 billion trading loss earlier this month, that front has splintered.
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
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While Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell stayed out of the spotlight during much of the negotiations over the U.S. debt limit, the deal that’s headed for approval by Congress today has his fingerprints all over it.
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U.S. House Speaker John Boehner is finding himself in a familiar and awkward place: facing accusations that he can’t control his own troops.
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It is a far from unified Republican Party that won the U.S. House and gained seats in the Senate.
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House Republicans are fighting President Barack Obama over extending a U.S. payroll tax cut as their public image weakens and his political position improves, a survey suggests.
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When House Majority Leader Eric Cantor walked out on the bipartisan debt-ceiling talks in late June, all of Washington professed shock. For some cable news addicts, it rivaled the Casey Anthony trial in its titillation factor.
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