Ross Baker News
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Senate Republicans are delaying at least two Cabinet-level nominations with potential effects on industries, complicating President Barack Obama’s second-term agenda.
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- John Boehner lost.
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Chris Christie had at least three jobs to do last night in his keynote speech at the Republican National Convention.
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Ohio Republican Steve LaTourette’s decision to retire from the U.S. House means there will be even fewer moderates to work across party lines on the so-called fiscal cliff and other tax-and-spending issues.
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Cory Booker, the popular mayor of Newark, New Jersey, who Democrats wanted to challenge Governor Chris Christie this year, cleared the field when he bowed out last month. Party leaders have yet to decide who should take his place.
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New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez’s job-approval ratings have plunged amid allegations that he improperly helped a longtime friend and donor, even as fellow Democrats say they’re standing behind him.
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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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The same forces that brought John Boehner to power as speaker of the U.S. House are now the ones that weaken him.
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President Barack Obama hits the road today to sell his deficit reduction plan, drawing lines with his Republican opposition over values in a cross-country trip that has all the markings of a campaign swing.
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Television viewers watching the Republican National Convention will see plenty of balloons, delegates and governors. What they won’t see are many members of Congress.
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