Tag: Republican Party

Hill staffers preferred Tim Ryan over Nancy Pelosi for minority leader, according to a report. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Beltway Confidential

Republicans better hope Nancy Pelosi defeats Tim Ryan

Philip Wegmann · November 21, 2016 8:34 pm

On Tuesday morning attorney general-designate Jeff Sessions will become the first Trump nominee to undergo a Senate confirmation hearing. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Poor Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

Daniel Allott · November 21, 2016 6:09 pm

How D.C. Can Get Taxation With Representation in the Trump Administration

abram-shulsky · November 19, 2016 12:00 pm

National Security

Pompeo receives GOP praise after CIA pick

Al Weaver · November 18, 2016 7:01 pm

Many Dems would like nothing better than to have the confirmation hearings for President-elect Trump's attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions resemble the 1986 battle in which the Alabama Republican was actually rebuffed as a judicial nominee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Beltway Confidential

Both parties face a filibuster dilemma

W. James Antle III · November 18, 2016 5:25 pm

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich proposed on Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act was designed to crush the private sector healthcare industry and role out socialized medicine to Americans. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

GOP still deciding what Obamacare ‘repeal and replace’ means

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 18, 2016 5:39 am

The influential Republican Study Committee elected first-term Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina chairman for the 115th Congress on Thursday. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Freshman GOP lawmaker will lead Republican Study Committee

Nicole Duran · November 17, 2016 7:54 pm

Many Republican senators are still in the dark on what Donald Trump is planning to do about immigration, aside from his well-known plan to build a border wall and focus on border security along the southwestern U.S. border. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

After the wall, GOP unclear on Trump’s immigration plans

Al Weaver · November 17, 2016 5:01 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., convinced his conference on Wednesday to drop proposals to ease the earmark ban imposed by his predecessor from a package of rules that will govern how the House operates in the next Congress. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Republicans reject earmarks — for now

Nicole Duran · November 16, 2016 11:41 pm

Top Republicans Don’t Know Where Trump Will Be on Ukraine

Jenna Lifhits · November 16, 2016 7:50 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was re-elected to the top leadership post unanimously Wednesday morning by Republican lawmakers in a closed-door meeting. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

McConnell re-elected as Senate majority leader

Susan Crabtree · November 16, 2016 3:14 pm

For all its dysfunction and possible collapse, people do like many different aspects of Obamacare. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Republicans, beware the Obamacare repeal minefield

Kevin Glass · November 16, 2016 2:51 pm