Jul 16, 2009 – As chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the job of Sen. … questions before the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, were a bit more tempered than those posed by his Republican … Yesterday, Graham asked Sotomayor recite the controversial "wise Latina" remark in front of the Judiciary Committee and press.…

Jul 12, 2009 – The Gallup report concludes that, “for those seeking to understand why the Republican Party suffered such major election losses, they … On the opposite side, the Republican Party has been distracted by media fashioned internal fighting, (Conservative Radio Host Rush … Limbaugh, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, and former Speaker Newt Gingrich), made-for-TV soap-opera personal…

Jul 28, 2009 – Moreover, during the open hearings on the nomination the Republican members on the Judiciary Committee largely concentrated on the … Michael Steele is an earnest and well-meaning fellow who might be the worst Republican National Committee chairman since the 1930s. … Today, the Republican Party stands at a crossroads.…

Jul 24, 2009 – make the GOP's case for them that the health care bill is too extreme) or walk the plank, again, as they did on cap 'n tax.The National … Republican Congressional Committee should be licking its chops. …

Jul 24, 2009 – Don't underestimate that transformation," then-senator Barack Obama told the National Urban League two years ago. … Wade," according to the National Right to Life Committee. … Jeff Fortenberry, a Republican from Nebraska, subsequently pressed Clinton on her expressed "awe" of Sanger, Clinton compared the unapologetic…

Jul 23, 2009 – Signers included two committee chairmen. … Obama noted that Republican Sen. Jim DeMint and Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol want to "kill" the Democratic bills. … National Convention that if you subsidize something, you get more of it and that if you tax something, you get less of it.…

Jul 22, 2009 – The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has released the names of 25 members of their Patriots Program. …

Jul 22, 2009 – No one questions that healthcare reform is an urgent, national priority -- as are efforts to contain the risks of climate change. … Committee running television ads against members of its party to pressure them into supporting Obama's plans. … And that's when the Republican lobbying machine will be running full throttle.…

Aug 7, 2009 – He resigned as chairman of the Republican National Committee after 10 months in 2007.UPDATE: Politico says that Martinez was rumored…

Aug 6, 2009 – "Absent huge Democratic mistakes in the next few years, the Republican Party's road back could very well be a long one," said Simon … The National Republican Senatorial Committee, chaired by Sen. … challengers. -- Illinois: Republican odds of filling Obama's former Senate seat improved significantly when popular state Attorney…

Aug 6, 2009 – reporting that Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who recently announced she will announce her intentions to run against incumbent Republican … Governor Rick Perry, has a track record of missing key committee meetings as per her responsibility of being a U.S. … Senator:Legislation to permit law enforcement to jam prisoners' cell phone calls easily cleared a Senate committee on Wednesday, the…

Aug 6, 2009 – It took Chuck Colson a couple of years and the repeated leaks of national security information and massive protests of the Vietnam … "The White House request that members of the public report anyone who is spreading 'disinformation' about the proposed national health … lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee who are examining the plan's possible implementation," writes Byron York in the Washington…

Aug 6, 2009 – National Committee. … Terry McAuliffe, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee attended the glittering Washington, D.C., premiere of "Fahrenheit … What is the likelihood that a birther will be sitting with former President Bush at the 2012 Republican National Convention?…

Aug 6, 2009 – Chairman Howard Dean, the Republican National Hispanic Assembly and the Asian American and Pacific Islander National Republican Association … During a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, Dean said, "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people … It's clear." 2) House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., and Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican Party…

Aug 2, 2009 – First, the number is so small compared to the national budget that is not a significant number; second, Obama was exploding the budget … John Kasich took over the House Budget Committee and cut 100 commissions and agencies. … I was somewhat disheartened to see a smart Republican, Paul Ryan, minimize these cuts in his comments to the Wall Street Journal.…

Aug 2, 2009 – Imagine further a Republican-run U.S. … Eric Holder, the newly appointed Attorney General of the United States, told the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and … If DOJ can't make the case under Sec. 245 against armed Black Panthers who told Chris Hill, a white Republican poll watcher, "White…

Jul 31, 2009 – Last week, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy spoke out against critics of Sonia Sotomayor as playing “racial … “Republican Leader” is me. … The National Council of La Raza bills itself as “the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United…

Aug 18, 2009 – Lewis had no idea my wife was a prolife activist doing volunteer work for the National Right to Life Committee.  … She had changed her registration to Republican mainly because of abortion.  … If the Republican Party abandoned her on this issue, I knew she would abandon the Republican Party. …

Aug 15, 2009 – However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most voters (54%) say no health care reform passed by Congress … To this point, there has been no Republican support for the legislative effort although the Senate Finance Committee is still attempting…

Aug 13, 2009 – Speaker Nancy Pelosi is from San Francisco, and important House committee chairmen are from similar "gentry urban" locales -- Henry … Republican leaders tend to come from mostly suburban districts closer to the national political average. … Of the 19 lawmakers who are in the GOP's House leadership or who are ranking committee members, four come from districts carried by…

Aug 13, 2009 – Durbin in 2001 -- when the Democrats ran the Senate Judiciary Committee -- called Estrada "especially dangerous, because he has a minimal … But as to the sympathetic "back story" of a Republican nominee -- who cares? … A Republican nominee like Miguel Estrada becomes a "sellout" or a "Tio Taco."…

Aug 11, 2009 – Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse mislabeled them as "angry mobs of rabid right-wing extremists." … There is no evidence that they are organized and financed by the insurance companies, or even by the Republican Party. … Darrell Issa, R-Calif., ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, described the threat, which Issa called…

Aug 28, 2009 – The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at … denying reimbursement to less favored (because presumably less effective) treatments -- precisely the triage done by the NICE committee … it's proxy, and because it will guarantee access to (supposedly) private health insurance -- something that enjoys considerable Republican…

Aug 28, 2009 – He intended to support Republican Bob McDonnell for governor in November on Madisonian grounds. … McDonnell cut his political teeth as an intern at the House Republican Policy Committee. … National Republicans might learn a stylistic lesson from the Virginia race as well.…

Aug 26, 2009 – On May 27, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson had telephone conversations about Vietnam with McGeorge Bundy, his national security … Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee. First, to Bundy, he said: "It just worries the hell out of me. … The war's natural supporters -- the hawkish right and center of the Republican Party -- inevitably will have at least their enthusiasm…