Tag: Republican Party

Ted Cruz read the book on the Senate floor Sept. 25 during an 21-hour-long filibuster against a bill to fund the government because it included funding for Obamacare. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

‘Green Eggs and Ham’ signed by Ted Cruz auctioned for $1,000

Charlie Spiering · February 21, 2014 5:00 am

Rep. Steve King of Iowa speaks during a hearing to criticize a proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency on Jan. 23 in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Rep. Steve King won’t apologize for immigrant remarks

Sean Lengell · February 21, 2014 5:00 am

GOP drafting bill to ease flood insurance hikes

GOP drafting bill to ease flood insurance hikes

Andrew Taylor · February 20, 2014 10:17 pm

Podcast: Expect GOP to Pick Up 6-10 Senate Seats in ’14

TWS Podcast · February 20, 2014 9:45 pm

Moderate Republicans like Sen. Bob Corker ( left), with his wife, Elizabeth, and Gov. Bill Haslam are being urged to consider a 2016 Republican presidential bid. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Front-runner-free, GOP opens 2016 door to Tennessee senator and governor

Paul Bedard · February 20, 2014 5:00 am

The British troops who escaped from Dunkirk came back to France four years later, as part of the massive invasion forces that stormed the beaches at Normandy, liberated France and pushed on into Germany for the final defeat of the Nazi regime. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Wars, like politics, are about winning, not symbolic gestures

Thomas Sowell · February 20, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Oct. 29, 2013 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Ted Cruz aims at his own side — again

Mona Charen · February 20, 2014 5:00 am

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, speaks at a news conference, accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., left, and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Calif. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Quiet campaigning for House GOP leadership underway

David M. Drucker · February 20, 2014 5:00 am

Former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey leaves federal court in Washington on March 10, 1998, after testifying before a grand jury investigating an alleged affair between former President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. If conservatives and Republicans think resurrecting this old news will bring them electoral victory against Hillary Clinton, should she decide to run, they are mistaken. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Bashing Hillary Clinton won’t help GOP win in 2016

Cal Thomas · February 19, 2014 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

‘Mike Lee for president’? He’s got bigger plans for the Tea Party

Joel Gehrke · February 19, 2014 5:00 am

Employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., works on a Passat sedan. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, file)

After UAW defeat, can GOP fulfill promise of jobs?

Eric Schelzig · February 18, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2014 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The debate about whether to continue the dragnet surveillance of Americans' phone records is highlighting divisions within the Democratic and Republican parties that could transform the politics of national security. While some leading Democrats have been reluctant to condemn the National Security Agency's tactics, the GOP has begun to embrace a libertarian shift opposing the spy agency's broad surveillance powers _ a striking departure from the aggressive national security policies that have defined the Republican Party for generations. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

National Security

NSA surveillance exposes political party divisions

Associated Press · February 18, 2014 5:00 am