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Immigration debate threatens to split Republican Party
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The immigration debate is threatening to split the Republican Party, pitting those who focus mainly on presidential elections against those who care mostly about congressional races.
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Republican Congressman Gingrey: Akin 'partly right' on 'legitimate rape' comment
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GOP Rep. Phil Gingrey, an OB-GYN since 1975 and head of the House GOP Doctors Caucus, said former Rep. Todd Akin was "partly right" when he said women's bodies can avoid pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape." Then he backtracked a little Friday.
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Bob Marshall told to put social issues aside, focus on economy
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Marshall is introducing four bills related to abortion and contraception this session. Three would allow insurance providers to deny women contraception coverage, an element of the new health care bill.
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Republican Party seems divided, angry as ever
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Infighting has penetrated the highest levels of the House GOP leadership. Enraged tea party leaders are threatening to knock off dozens of Republicans who supported a measure that raised taxes on the nation's highest earners.
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Fiscal cliff 2013: Obama, GOP leaders still have work to do
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A late-night House session Tuesday did lead to a partisan vote in favor of averting the fiscal cliff, but many critical issues remain unresolved. That sets up another potential fight later this year.
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Susan Rice, GOP meet: Trio 'troubled' with Rice's explanations about Libya
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Three Republican senators who met Tuesday with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice say they are more troubled now over her initial explanations about the deadly Sept. 11 raid in Libya.
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Fiscal cliff fears could hurt Christmas spending
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White House and congressional leadership aides said Obama spoke separately with House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid over the weekend.
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Fiscal cliff; GOP at a crossroads; 'Skins stay alive
CommentToday on NewsTalk, we spoke with and Alex Parker.
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Presidential election 2012: Republicans soul searching after 2012 Obama re-election
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Hard-core conservatives, furious at President Barack Obama's re-election in the face of a weak economy, called for a wholesale shift to resolutely right positions on social and fiscal matters. Some demanded that party leaders resign.
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Obama warns GOP not to undo Wall Street reform
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President Obama is warning congressional Republicans not to undo financial rules he signed two years ago. Watch the president's weekly Internet and radio address and the GOP weekly address here.
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Romney sequestered in Vermont for debate prep
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Obama-Biden signs dot the back roads of Vermont, a state that has voted for a Democratic president since 1988. And yet, Mitt Romney chose a friend's home in rural Vermont to hunker down to prepare for a trio of high-stakes debates.
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Ryan says he misstated marathon claim by more than an hour
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Paul Ryan now says he didn't run a marathon in less than three hours - as he claimed in a nationally broadcast interview - after Runner's World magazine found evidence he had completed one marathon, in 1990, and finished in just over four hours.
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Clint Eastwood RNC speech bizarre, reviews say
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Clint Eastwood earned plenty of bad reviews for his latest performance: a bizarre, rambling endorsement of Mitt Romney.
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Clint Eastwood: What media outlets are saying about bizarre speech
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Today’s trip through the make-my-day checkout line largely centers on an old man on a big stage and what various outlets are saying about it, a couple of other things, and the mystery music video.
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McDonnell highlights Obama's Roanoke comments
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's speech kept with Tuesday night's convention theme, taunting President Barack Obama for his line in a speech delivered in Roanoke in July when, in making the point that government aids private business, he said, "if you've got a business, you didn't build that."
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2012 Republican National Convention opens
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It's official: Party Chairman Reince Priebus called the gathering to order, citing convention rules requiring a 2 p.m. Monday start, and then immediately recessed the session.
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Republican National Convention crammed into three days
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Tropical Storm Isaac has shaken things up at the Republican National Convention. Most of Monday’s events were postponed, so the GOP is cramming four days of events, into three.
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Isaac forces GOP to scrap first day of convention
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Republicans will formally bestow their presidential nomination on Mitt Romney on Tuesday night, one day later than planned, officials announced Sunday as they revised the schedule for a national convention curtailed by the threat of Tropical Storm Isaac.
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