Tag: Republican Party

New York insurance regulators have promised independent insurance agents they will take corrective action following a flood of complaints from consumers about Health Republic Insurance of New York, the largest of two dozen Obamacare health co-ops. (Photo: Thinkstock)

GOP confident Obamacare is a winner in 2014

David M. Drucker · January 6, 2014 5:00 am

Washington Secrets

Mainstream Media Scream: Bryant Gumbel accuses GOP of extortion

Paul Bedard · January 6, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this May 17, 2013 file photo, Rep. Jim Gerlach, R-Pa. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gerlach, one of a shrinking number of GOP moderates in the House, has announced he will retire from Congress at the end of his term. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Moderate Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Gerlach to retire

Washington Examiner · January 6, 2014 5:00 am

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told CBS that "Republicans around America want us to do something to extend [unemployment] benefits. Why? Because it's good for the economy." (AP File)

Harry Reid: Republicans shouldn’t block unemployment insurance extension

Rebecca Berg · January 5, 2014 5:00 am

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks after being sworn in during the public inauguration ceremony at City Hall in New York on Wednesday. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Beltway Confidential

Dems, GOP enter 2014 out of sync with America

Mark Tapscott · January 3, 2014 5:00 am

Will Eric Cantor be the next Speaker of the House?

Susan Ferrechio · January 3, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Ted Cruz has ostensibly come to New Hampshire â his first-ever visit â to help the state Republican Party raise money. But heâs made two previous trips to Iowa this summer that left conservatives there buzzing about his presidential prospects. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Flashback Column: Byron York on Ted Cruz’s fearlessness and 2016

Byron York · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

These file photos show Democrats Senators, from left, Mary Landrieu, D-La., Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C. (AP images)

GOP, Dems try to repackage arguments for 2014

Bill Barrow · January 1, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this June 11, 2007 file photo, Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons is photographed in his North Dallas office. The deaths this year of three major Texas Republican donors, including a billionaire who died over the weekend, could signal a generational change for party kingmakers in the nationÃ?s largest GOP stronghold. Harold SimmonsÃ? death Saturday came after Republicans lost home builder Bob Perry in April and businessman Leo Linbeck Jr. in June. For decades, all three helped bankroll political campaigns both in Texas and nationwide. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Tom Fox)

Texas Republicans lose 3 major donors in 2013

Associated Press · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

With President Obama's health care reforms now entrenched as law, repealing it will be highly impractical, undermining one of the Republican Party's major talking points. The debate will morph into a question of which party can better refine and rework the law, operatives in both parties predict. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty images)

The health care debate is already changing for Republicans in 2014

Rebecca Berg · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

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Industry, not environmentalists, killed incandescent bulbs

Timothy P. Carney · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

Tea Party activists have come to see as their adversaries not only Republicans who support increasing the role for the federal government, but anybody who disagrees with their strategy for shrinking government.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Flashback Column: Philip Klein on Tea Party’s tactical, ideological clashes

Philip Klein · December 30, 2013 5:00 am