Taxes: Parties Confident in Their Policies
Tax policy is almost always one of the biggest issues in Congressional elections. But rarely, if ever, has it been more prominent than this time. Unusual circumstances have made it so.
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Tax policy is almost always one of the biggest issues in Congressional elections. But rarely, if ever, has it been more prominent than this time. Unusual circumstances have made it so.
winning control of either chamber in the 2010 midterm elections is zero.
“Newt’s the smartest politician I know,” said Chambliss, who was first elected to Congress in the 1994 Republican revolution led by Gingrich.
When the Republicans took back a House majority after the midterm elections last November, a number of GOP staffers were inspired to seek new opportunities on Capitol Hill, including Dina Ellis Rochkind
Newt, you see a person that’s bubbling over with ideas but not necessarily one who has the discipline to see those ideas carried through to finality,” said Burr, who was first elected to Congress in the 1994
Roaring applause followed from the crowd that remains as distrustful of Beltway politics now as it is was before helping Republicans win control of the House in the midterm elections.
The California Democrat has never had close ties to the moderate group, but the relationship went into a deep freeze following the November midterm elections, which thinned the Blue
Haley Barbour (R) on Thursday afternoon addressed Senate Republicans during their annual retreat, telling them the Nov. 2 elections were a rejection of President Barack Obama’s agenda and urging them to