The top Republican in crafting the Senate’s sweeping immigration-reform legislation acknowledged Sunday the bill still has flaws, while a fellow GOP senator said their party blocking its passage will only add to their “demographic death spiral.”
Herman Cain, who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, told a gathering of conservative activists in Washington, D.C., on Saturday that they shouldn’t wait until 2016 to “take our country back”. Read full article >>
Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to meet with House Republicans next week to explain questionable testimony he gave on reporter surveillance.
This week’s Faith and Freedom Conference in Washington is shaping up as a who’s who of potential 2016 GOP White House hopefuls. But you won’t find New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) there. That’s because the governor will be in Chicago Friday to appear at a very different gathering hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative. [...]
The Arizona Legislature embraced a signature component of President Barack Obama’s health care law Thursday after a drawn out battle that divided the state’s Republican leadership and saw GOP Gov. Jan Brewer work closely with Democratic lawmakers to expand Medicaid access.
PARK CITY, Utah — The Republican Party is trying hard to move on from Mitt Romney. His donors are another story. Three potential presidential candidates grasped at the Republican Party’s financial torch Friday by auditioning before an audience of Romney’s most influential fundraisers and GOP officials. After huddling with the former nominee in a dark [...]
PARK CITY, Utah — John Schoenfeld came to an exclusive resort here to do business with Mitt Romney. But he stayed for the politics. Schoenfeld spent most of Wednesday in a downstairs conference room of the Stein Eriksen Lodge assessing the investments of Solamere Capital, the firm co-founded by Romney’s son Tagg and increasingly managed [...]
A suggestion by Sen. Saxby Chambliss during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that “hormones” may be behind the growing problem of sexual assault in the military immediately triggered criticism from both sides of the aisle Tuesday.
Republican fissures over the expansion of Medicaid, a critical piece of the 2010 health-care law designed to provide coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, continue to deepen, with battles in Arizona and elsewhere showing just how bitter the divisions have become. Read full article >>
President Barack Obama will be looking for signs from China’s leader at their upcoming meeting that Beijing is ready to address its reported high-tech spying, which the White House sees as a top threat to the U.S. economy and national security.