D.C. Supporters Look to Boost Rick Santorum
“Prior to last Tuesday, I think D.C. and K Street had kind of decided that Romney was going to be the candidate.”
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“Prior to last Tuesday, I think D.C. and K Street had kind of decided that Romney was going to be the candidate.”
“I am excited about it,” the Wisconsin Republican said this morning at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.
“When Men’s Health reached out and said, ‘Will you be on the “Today Show” and do a fitness challenge?’ I said, ‘OK. I’m not showing them anything they don’t already know,'” he said.
Asked this afternoon whether he could ask his Members to vote for a measure that cuts government worker pensions, Hoyer said, “I’ve got to find out exactly what it is before I tell them anything.
“I would anticipate some kind of movement in this case next week,” he added.
“We have long proposed bringing this tax cut to the floor without payfors, and House Democrats will support it so that taxes are not raised on 160 million working Americans, but this should not be
“I don’t have any reason to know where these figures came from,” she said, “but I have assumed all along that my district would lose jobs and other opportunities we’d otherwise have due to sequestration
But first, I need to write a few words of disappointment over how the House handled the STOCK Act.
Tom Price said before the meeting that he thought any deal to extend the payroll tax holiday without paying for it would lose significant Republican support — even, potentially, his.
“Republicans pledged to pass bills in a more transparent manner and reverse the era of quickly moving massive bills across the floor without proper examination.
“Clearly, I have a love of the First Amendment and political speech and a lot of experience in running organizations and raising money,” Keating said.
“I support a straight payroll tax cut extension,” said the Maryland Democrat, a conferee who is close to Democratic House leadership.
“I’m signing this bill today to provide certainty to this process so candidates can file for office,” Beshear said in a statement.
“I am a … recovering earmarker, like many of us are around here,” Senate GOP Conference Chairman John Thune (S.D.) said. “But I do think that the process has been abused.
“What liberals just can’t seem to accept is the idea of free people and free institutions pursuing happiness as they see fit — with a deep respect for the rights and difference of others — without
And it’s never worked anywhere it has been tried,” said Rubio, the son of immigrants from Cuba.
I think he’s well-trusted by people across the spectrum, and everybody talks about in politics finding people you can disagree with without being disagreeable: He’s classic that way.”
“I don’t think he has any choice,” said Sen.
“The work of Arizona’s redistricting commission has placed many people in difficult positions, but at the end of the day my choice is to continue representing the people I represent today,” Quayle
“No one really knows,” the Democratic operative said. “I think the Congressional map is a tossup, I think it’s 50-50” that the courts will decide in Democrats’ favor.