Oct 10, 2011 – The supercommittee is struggling. After weeks of secret meetings, the 12-member deficit-cutting panel established under last summer’s budget and debt deal appears no closer to a breakthrough than when talks began last month. While the panel members themselves aren’t doing much talking, other lawmakers, aides and lobbyists closely...

Oct 10, 2011 – Herman Cain charged Sunday that groups sympathetic to President Obama were ginning up the Occupy Wall Street protests to take attention away from the administration’s policies. Cain, the GOP presidential candidate and former Godfather’s Pizza chief executive, also continued to call the growing protests “anti-American” and said demonstrators were...

Oct 10, 2011 – Herman Cain said Sunday that his national book tour — which some Republicans have argued could undermine his surging presidential campaign — will help his efforts, and that he plans to pick up the number of book-tour events. "When I can meet [voters] at a book-signing and say hello...

Oct 10, 2011 – “When you run for president, and you move into the top tier, you get this bull’s-eye on your back,” the GOP presidential hopeful told the crowd at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. In particular, Mr. Cain assailed critics of his plan to replace the tax code with...

Oct 10, 2011 – Rep. Michael Grimm, a Republican who represents Staten Island, is endorsing Mitt Romney in the GOP presidential primary—saying he's concluded former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is not entering the race and it's time for his party to rally around the candidate most likely to defeat President Barack Obama in 2012....

Oct 10, 2011 – GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, who took the stage after Herman Cain at the Values Voter Summit on Friday, seemed to know he had a tough act to follow. He wasted little time tying himself to the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, who gave perhaps the best-received speech of the...

Oct 10, 2011 – Washington (CNN) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton will bring his nationally syndicated radio show to lower Manhattan Monday as the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations enter their 24th day. Sharpton, an outspoken civil rights activist and talk show host, will broadcast from Zuccotti Park, where the protests are based, according...

Oct 10, 2011 – This week could see a turning point for President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill, which gets its first big political test in the coming days -- with Senate Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, has set a vote on the package for this week, after members of his...

Oct 10, 2011 – According to the principal organizer of the Values Voters Summit, the results of their own straw poll should not be taken seriously. Following a victory by Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, told CNN on Monday morning that the win was merely...

Oct 10, 2011 – Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul blasted President Barack Obama today over the mandate his administration will likely give final approval to soon that forces insurance companies to cover birth control and drugs that can cause abortion. The mandate, which has come under heavy criticism from pro-life and Catholic groups,...

Oct 10, 2011 – Texas Rep. Ron Paul won the Values Voter Summit straw poll Saturday, with the libertarian presidential candidate taking 37 percent of votes at a gathering organized by social conservatives. In second place was Herman Cain with 23 percent of the vote, followed by Rick Santorum with 16 percent....

Oct 10, 2011 – Reporting from Washington— High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF's Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars....

Oct 10, 2011 – Washington (CNN) -- House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said Sunday that he could issue subpoenas to the Justice Department this week in connection to a now-discredited federal gunrunning operation. Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Issa said that he wants a better understanding of who knew...

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