Tag: Republicans

"That is something that the transition team is working on right now as to what executive actions that the Obama administration did and how we are going to deal with it," Ryan told reporters. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

GOP weighs reversal of ‘hundreds’ of Obama executive actions

Susan Ferrechio · December 1, 2016 5:51 pm

Feds are trying to put the lesser prairie chicken back on the endangered species list, though a court ordered its removal in 2015. (AP Photo/Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Energy and Environment

GOP blasts Obama’s attempt to ignore court on prairie chicken

John Siciliano · November 30, 2016 5:21 pm

StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer says panel is ignoring evidence in its quest to prove her company profited off fetal tissue. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

StemExpress CEO: ‘Sloppy’ Republican-led fetal tissue panel only hurting their cause

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 30, 2016 5:01 am

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said House lawmakers will take up a 2017 budget early next year, but not before Inauguration Day. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

GOP’s ‘aggressive’ 2017 agenda: Obamacare, border, taxes, entitlements

Susan Ferrechio · November 29, 2016 5:15 pm

In a letter to Department of Labor Secretary Tom Perez, Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson asked him to "acknowledge the reality of the situation and avoid imposing unnecessary costs and burdens" involved in the rules. (Michael P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP File)

GOP senator warns Obama against last-minute regs

Joseph Lawler · November 29, 2016 4:06 pm

President-elect Trump has promised to enforce existing immigration laws. Critics have accused him of planning to round up undocumented families and deport them, an idea Trump appears to have abandoned. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

White House: GOP to blame for immigration ‘obstruction’

Sarah Bedford · November 22, 2016 5:47 pm

A letter from House Republicans also asked Obama to sign a bill that would extend current sanctions against Iran for the next decade. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

GOP warns Obama against new Iran concessions

Susan Ferrechio · November 22, 2016 4:48 pm

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and all House committee leaders are warning the Obama administration to cease and desist from issuing any remaining 11th-hour regulations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Energy and Environment

GOP warns Obama agencies to scrap 11th-hour regs

John Siciliano · November 16, 2016 11:12 am

Rep. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, is chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Stivers beats Williams in bid to run NRCC

Al Weaver · November 15, 2016 8:21 pm

President Obama's change would greatly expand the number of people who qualify for overtime pay. (iStock photo)

GOP to push back against Obama overtime rule

Sean Higgins · November 15, 2016 6:42 pm

House Republican lawmakers were greeted by Trump's signature "make America great again" red baseball caps placed on the chairs in a basement conference room where the group met. (Photo courtesy the office of Cathy McMorris Rodgers)

House GOP finally embraces Trump

Susan Ferrechio · November 15, 2016 4:54 pm

House GOPers Shrug Off Concerns About Tension Between Bannon and Ryan

Jenna Lifhits, Alice B. Lloyd · November 15, 2016 2:45 am