...plans to hear the case of John Rainey, a longtime GOP activist who sued Haley in 2011. Rainey said that Haley, while a GOP House member representing Lexington, had done improper lobbying while also working as a hospital fundraiser and in business...
...to announce today that he might be interested in U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss' seat in 2014.Kingston, an 11-term GOP House veteran, said he was considering seeking the seat. Kingston, 57, said his knowledge of defense and agriculture, important...
...citizens.Republicans would keep trying to block the law. They hope to elect Mitt Romney as president, backed by a GOP House and Senate, and repeal the law, although their chances of outright repeal would seem to be diminished by the court's...
...of each other.A week before the supposed Aug. 2 deadline for Congress to raise the nation's borrowing limit, the GOP House had its ideas, the Democratic Senate had its, and the president -- well, was doing whatever he does between giving...
...Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has not: As syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock notes, "Through September 15, the GOP House had voted 711 times. Meanwhile, across the same period, the Democratic Senate had only 137 recorded votes."Yes...
...GOP majority to freely discuss their ideas and opinions.Democrats are skeptical of a tax plan crafted solely by the GOP. House Minority Leader Harry Ott said he fears the package ultimately would raise sales taxes on working class people while...
...president's plan is dead on arrival in the House and isn't a shoo-in even in the Democrat-controlled Senate.The GOP House proposal can't clear the Senate, and if it could, Obama would veto it faster than you can say autopen.Moreover...
...failed today to agree on a bill requiring South Carolina voters to show photo ID and allowing early voting, but a key GOP House member offered what one senator called a "glimmer of light."House GOP leaders want to mandate voter ID with no early...
...is almost certain to vote to impeach him. Just this past week, the leaders of the state Republican Party and 61 of 72 GOP House members who will deal with impeachment called on him to resign. The party and legislators say too many distractions continue...
ATLANTA --- The Augusta-area's three Republican members of the Georgia House might be expected to vote mostly with their party's leaders, but it might be surprising how often some of the local Democrats did also.
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