National Republican Congressional Committee News
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Allies of President Barack Obama are warning the administration that it has been too slow in responding to a cascading set of scandals and risks letting Republicans define his second term and derail his agenda.
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Mark Sanford, the South Carolina Republican governor disgraced by lying to conceal an extramarital affair, has staged a political comeback and will be sworn in as the newest U.S. House member this week.
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Patrick Murphy won his U.S. House seat last November by fewer than 2,000 votes. As he prepares to seek a second term, the Florida Democrat has boosted his fundraising to try to win re-election by a wider margin.
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Republican Mark Sanford will return to the U.S. House after winning a special election last night in South Carolina, staging a comeback four years after scandal tarnished his image while he served as the state’s governor.
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Democrats would move a step closer to a majority of U.S. House seats if they win a special election today in South Carolina. Getting the rest of the way will be much tougher.
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U.S. voters would prefer a White House and Congress controlled by one political party, according to a poll out today that also gives the Democrats a slight edge in next year’s congressional elections.
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As former South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Sanford tries to return to office four years after a scandal, he will be doing so without help from his party’s House political organization.
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Microsoft Corp., whose employees gave more money to President Barack Obama’s re-election committee than those at any other company, was the second- largest donor to his January inauguration, contributing $2.1 million, according to new Federal Election Commission filings.
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Carol Patterson was waiting for a call from her doctor. When the phone rang on that afternoon in August 2011 at her home in Cortland, Ohio, it wasn’t a physician on the other end. A woman named Robin said she was representing the American Diabetes Association.
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In the 1980s, a joke that ran through California political circles was that more turnover occurred in the Soviet Union’s Politburo than in the state’s U.S. House delegation.
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