Tag: Republican Party

The GOP, the Black Vote, and the Confederate Flag

TWS Podcast · June 22, 2015 6:25 pm

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez speaks to business leaders at the Bioscience Center in Albuquerque on Monday, June 15, 2015. (AP Photo)Â

Susana Martinez: Republican power broker?

David M. Drucker · June 22, 2015 4:01 am

The Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. Tensions over the Confederate flag flying in the shadow of South Carolina's Capitol rose this week in the wake of the killings of nine people at a black church in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

Will South Carolina Republicans save their party and take down the Confederate flag?

David M. Drucker · June 21, 2015 9:00 am

Republican Ryan Zinke is seen at the start of a U.S. House debate in Billings, Mont., on Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. Zinke stressed the need for a smaller federal government to reduce hurdles faced by the private sector. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

GOP: Obama would sacrifice troops for IRS and EPA

John Siciliano · June 20, 2015 1:57 pm

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., left, listens as U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., speaks during a Congressional Field Hearing on the Affordable Care Act's impact on Americans, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013, in Apache Junction, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)

GOP’s latest Obamacare plan: End insurance mandates if Supreme Court kills subsidies

Pete Kasperowicz · June 19, 2015 4:02 pm

French ambassador to the United Nations Gerard Araud speaks to the media after Security Council consultations on Syria at U.N. headquarters on August 2, 2012 in New York City. Kofi Annan resigned as the U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy to Syria citing the failure of Security Council powers to agree on measures to stop the violence in Syria. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

France optimistic GOP will support climate change deal

John Siciliano · June 19, 2015 4:01 am

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Donald trumping other candidates on Google

Kelly Cohen · June 18, 2015 7:16 pm

Martha Baker, a Registered Nurse, (R) delivers 13,000 petition signatures demanding healthcare expansion to the office of Florida State Rep. Jose Oliva, whose Hialeah district includes the highest number of Obamacare sign ups in the nation, as the Florida legislative body debates accepting Affordable Care Act funding on May 28, 2015 in Hialeah, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Primary care providers view Obamacare along partisan lines

Robert King · June 18, 2015 5:22 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Donald Trump and the GOP’s crazy uncle problem

W. James Antle III · June 18, 2015 10:52 am

House Speaker John Boehner, R-OH, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-WA, leave a House Caucus meeting to attend a press conference on Capitol Hill, June 10. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Congress, Obama plan tricky two-step that mostly sidelines Dems on trade

Susan Ferrechio · June 17, 2015 11:33 pm

Rep. Paul Ryan, who has been working on the plan with a few other committee leaders, presented the framework to Republicans Wednesday afternoon in a closed-door meeting, one day before the Supreme Court could issue its ruling in the closely watched case. (AP Photo)

Ryan tries to rally GOP around King response

Paige Winfield Cunningham · June 17, 2015 11:02 pm

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks with reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. The Supreme Court heard arguments in King v. Burwell, a major test of President Barack Obama's health overhaul which, if successful, could halt healthcare premium subsidies in all the states where the federal government runs the insurance marketplaces. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Republicans face complicated political decision with Obamacare subsidies

Paige Winfield Cunningham · June 17, 2015 4:01 am