House Republicans offer $23B list of spending cuts

Responding to a challenge from President Barack Obama, House GOP leaders are offering up a roster of more than $23 billion in specific spending cuts over the next five years.

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Fineman: Honeymoon that ended before it began

- President Barack Obama is launching his first diplomatic mission.

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Boehner re-elected House GOP leader

House Republicans on Wednesday re-elected John Boehner as leader of their depleted ranks while putting together a more conservative team to represent them in the next, Democratic-controlled, Congress.

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Parties jockey for advantage on economic aid

House Democrats and Republicans pushed dueling economic aid plans Monday as they jockeyed for political advantage on addressing a crisis that is shaping the last weeks of a high-stakes election.

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Stunning defeat for economy bailout; stocks plunge

In a stunning vote that shocked the capital and worldwide markets, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation's financial system, ignoring urgent warnings from President Bush and congressional leaders of both parties that the economy could nosedive without it. The Dow Jones industrials plunged nearly 800 points, the most ever for a single day.

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Bush proposes new climate change strategy

President Bush called for a halt Wednesday in the growth of greenhouse gases by 2025, acknowledging the need to head off serious climate change.

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Bush Pledges Bipartisan Cooperation

Reaching out to newly ascendant Democrats for a second day, President Bush promised bipartisan cooperation to the Senate's top Democrats on Friday.

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Foley Scandal Investigations Heating Up

House Speaker Dennis Hastert is getting backup from President Bush and other Republican luminaries, while one of the party's Senate candidates calls for him to resign over the congressional page cybersex scandal.

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House Approves Minimum Wage Increase

Republicans muscled the first minimum wage increase in a decade through the House early Saturday after pairing it with a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates.

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at some point, they're going to have to rethink their current strategy.

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Dana Milbank writes: It was already shaping up to be a difficult year for congressional Republicans. Now, on the cusp of Mother's Day, comes this: A majority of the House GOP has voted against motherhood.

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It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that "there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs," the 19th century political party long extinct.

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As for yesterday's comments, House GOP sources said that Boehner and Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) were simply urging solidarity among House Republicans, explaining that they must distinguish themselves from their Senate colleagues.

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WASHINGTON (Map, News) - While President Bush and pro-amnesty members of Congress are pushing an unpopular immigration "reform" bill that would bestow American citizenship on millions of people who have no regard for America's laws, liberal Democrats across the Washington r …

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WASHINGTON - A half dozen federal investigations into the activities of Republican lawmakers are raising new worries for GOP leaders who hope to regain the House majority they lost last fall.

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Thirty-one-year-old Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) is not a large man, standing perhaps 5 feet 3 inches tall in thick soles.

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The so-called "drive-by media" demonstrated their power in the election results. Demoralized by negative coverage of the war in Iraq, voters brought to power a Democratic Party that will pressure the Bush Administration to leave Iraq before victory is achieved.

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Oh, Denny, stopping a whole investigation just 'cause you got a few little somethings from the Capitol IT security contractors? After all that hard work you put in giving the people da bizness, you deserve a little extra, now don't you?

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A senior congressional aide said Wednesday that he alerted House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office two years ago about worrisome conduct by former Rep. Mark Foley with teenage pages.

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The Abramoff scandal is somehow more important than the current news analyses point out.

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