Tag: Republicans

A recent New York Post story said that Census employees were fabricating unemployment data to mislead the public for political purposes. (iStock)

House GOP: Commerce ‘ambushed’ whistleblower interview

Luke Rosiak · September 18, 2014 2:29 pm

With control of the Senate on the line and Democrats and their allies pouring millions more into competitive contests than the Republicans and their supporters, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made an impassioned plea to his conference during Tuesday's weekly caucus lunch. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican senators to transfer $3 million to NRSC after appeal by McConnell

David M. Drucker · September 17, 2014 12:12 pm

Kansas, a Metaphor for the Republican Party

Jay Cost · September 17, 2014 9:04 am

Democrats claim latest House Benghazi panel just a GOP ‘fishing expedition’

Sean Lengell · September 17, 2014 9:00 am

"I'll be voting for the continuing resolution, assuming it comes over as we think it is from the House," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters Tuesday, referring to the spending bill that will include authorization to support the Free Syrian Army. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate Republicans support Obama’s Islamic State plan

Sean Lengell · September 16, 2014 7:29 pm

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told Republicans at a private meeting Tuesday morning that they should support legislation that will give Obama the power to use U.S. military forces to train and equip Syrian rebels in the fight against the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Dozens in GOP oppose Obama plan to arm Syrian rebels

Susan Ferrechio · September 16, 2014 3:21 pm

In this Sept. 11, 2014, photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lawmakers raced Monday, Sept. 15, to authorize an expanded mission to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels before heading back to the campaign trail, with House Republicans preparing legislation backing a central plank of President Barack Obama's strategy against the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP moves ahead on Syrian rebel training

BRADLEY KLAPPERDONNA CASSATA · September 16, 2014 2:25 am

A Wave Election?

Jay Cost · September 15, 2014 4:00 am

Don’t Take a Knee, GOP

Jeffrey H. Anderson · September 15, 2014 4:00 am

"I believe that we will be united in an overwhelming majority to meet the threat as the president suggests," Hoyer said. (Getty images/Larry French)

Hoyer: ‘Overwhelming’ support for arming Syrian rebels

Sean Lengell · September 12, 2014 8:44 pm

Capitol Hill Republicans want broader strategy to combat ISIS

Sean Lengell · September 12, 2014 1:12 am

National Security

John Boehner: Obama’s plan not likely enough to defeat Islamic State

Sean Lengell · September 11, 2014 5:31 pm