Category Archives: Republican

Cut back on missions to Mars? No way, backers say

By doris | Published: February 10, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Scientists say NASA is about to propose major cuts in its exploration of other planets, especially Mars. But even before the cuts are unveiled, lawmakers are vowing to fight “tooth and nail” to preserve missions to the Red Planet. With limited money for science and an over-budget new space [...]

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Contraception controversy consumes D.C., campaign

By doris | Published: February 9, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Congressional Democrats and Republicans escalated their rhetorical war Thursday over a pending federal rule requiring religiously affiliated employers to provide full contraception coverage to women — one day after hints emerged of a possible compromise between the White House and conservative religious critics. Numerous rank-and-file Democrats urged the [...]

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Romney on ‘poor’ comment: I misspoke

By doris | Published: February 5, 2012

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.blogs.CNN.com (CNN) – One day after Mitt Romney took heat for a comment he made about the poor, the Republican presidential candidate characterized his remark as a “misstatement.” “I misspoke,” Romney said Thursday in an interview aired on KSNV, a CNN affiliate in Las Vegas. “When you do I don’t know how [...]

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Gingrich: S.C. ‘decided to be with us in changing Washington’

By doris | Published: January 22, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — Newt Gingrich won Saturday’s South Carolina GOP presidential primary, marking a stunning turnaround for a candidate who finished fourth in Iowa and New Hampshire and whose campaign had been left for dead — again — by observers just weeks ago. With about 95% of polling places [...]

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Obama defies GOP by naming new consumer watchdog

By doris | Published: January 13, 2012

Full Story at BottomLine.msnbc.msn.com The long-delayed start of a new consumer protection bureau took a major step forward Wednesday when the White House defied Congressional Republicans who had been holding out for changes that consumer advocates say would have substantially weakened the agency. President Barack Obama announced a recess appointment to name Richard Cordray as [...]

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Sunday debate offers GOP hopeful second chance at fireworks

By doris | Published: January 8, 2012

Full Story at NBCPolitics.msnbc.msn.com MANCHESTER, N.H. — Republican presidential hopefuls will have a renewed opportunity to draw contrasts with each other in their second of two debates in a 12-hour span on Sunday morning. A Saturday night debate in Manchester yielded few defining moments, and did little to add new scrutiny that had been expected [...]

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After dismal Iowa showing, Bachmann suspends campaign

By doris | Published: January 5, 2012

Full Story at NBCPolitics.msnbc.msn.com Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has suspended her campaign for the White House. “I have decided to stand aside,” she told a room of supporters and reporters in Iowa. Bachmann said she leaves the race knowing the campaign was run “with integrity.” She said now, the country needs to “stand united [...]

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How ballot access laws hurt voters

By doris | Published: December 30, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Only two Republican presidential candidates will appear on the ballot in Virginia next year, regardless of how many are in the race. Mitt Romney and Ron Paul will have the Dominion State all to themselves. Supporters of Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman and Michele Bachmann will [...]

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Rick Perry sues Virginia to get on primary ballot

By doris | Published: December 28, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com After failing to secure a spot in Virginia’s presidential primary, the presidential campaign of Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday filed a federal court challenge to the state’s stringent ballot access rules. Perry was one of several candidates, including Newt Gingrich, who failed to gather 10,000 individual voters’ signatures by Friday’s deadline. [...]

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GOP: Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry fail to qualify for Virginia primary

By doris | Published: December 25, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com RICHMOND, Va. — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry have failed to qualify for Virginia’s March 6 Republican primary. The Republican Party of Virginia announced late Friday and early Saturday that Gingrich and Perry fell short of the 10,000 signatures of registered voters required for a candidate’s [...]

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House rejects payroll tax stopgap, hardening standoff

By doris | Published: December 21, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com House Republicans moved Tuesday to reject a Senate-passed tax cut extension, hardening a standoff over whether to extend an expiring payroll tax cut and clouding the prospects for a clear resolution to prevent a tax hike on Jan. 1. The House passed a measure that served the twin purposes of implicitly [...]

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House to vote Tuesday on Senate payroll tax plan

By doris | Published: December 20, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — House Republican leaders put off until Tuesday a vote on a Senate plan to extend the payroll tax cut and said they were willing to work until the end of the year to negotiate a compromise with Senate Democrats. The vote had been expected Monday night, but after [...]

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