Gary Bauer will be here. That will take us back to the presidential campaign of 2000, when the former president of the Family Research Council sought the Republican Party’s presidential nomination with a fervent anti-abortion campaign. Sarah Palin is on...
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Republican supporters gets ready to hold a South Carolina Faith & Freedom Coalition Event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on January 16, 2012.
Rubio, Paul, Cruz, Bush: Together Again
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Vice President Joe Biden during a joint-statement with Brazil's Vice President Michel Temer at the Itamaraty palace in Brasilia, on May 31, 2013.
Biden: Blistering Cruz, Paul — Wondering if Gore Has a Job for Him
A couple of vice presidents past and present showed up last night at a Washington fundraiser. The sitting VP, Joe Biden, a veteran of three-plus decades in the U.S. Senate, had some rough words for a couple of first-term Republican...
Read more »McCain, Tea Party Senators Squabble Over Budget Procedure
Fractures in the Republican Party were in plain view on the Senate floor today as Sens. John McCain, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz argued over the U.S. budget and debt ceiling processes. “Does my colleague from Florida believe that the...
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Senator Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, listens to a question during a news conference after the weekly Democratic Policy Committee meeting in Washington, D.C.
Senate Recess Over, Playground Still Busy
“Like schoolyard bullies, if Republicans can’t win, they’ll take the ball and go home,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid complained during his session-opener this morning. The Nevada Democrat was referring to the impasse between House and Senate on how to...
Read more »Jim DeMint’s Sugar-Free Taste of Immigration Bill: ‘Like Obamacare’
Jim DeMint this week will put a price tag on the Senate’s immigration bill. Bloomberg’s Heidi Przybyla reported he would last week. .@jimdemint: Proposed #immigration reform bill would cost U.S. trillions of dollars in the long term. #ThisWeek — This...
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Vice President Joe Biden at the South Carolina Democratic Party's Jefferson Jackson Dinner May 3, 2013, in Columbia, SC.
Cruz, Biden: Early Eyes on Second-Tier Race, New Attacks, Old School
Republican Ted Cruz, as our friends at Politico point out this morning, will be roughly the same age as Democrat Joe Biden was when he launched his first campaign for president in 1987, should the freshman senator from Texas declare...
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U.S. Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 1040 Individual Income Tax forms
Tax Day April Fool’s Plus Two Weeks: Cruz
They don’t call him a Tea Partier for nothing. “I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the month of April begins with April Fool’s Day and then two weeks later Tax Day comes,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says in a...
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Members of Newtown, Ct. clergy set up more than 3,300 grave markers on the Mall during a 24-hour vigil to support the gun violence legislation.
Senate’s Gun-Control Rebels: 16-2
What do Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Roger Wicker of Mississippi have in common? The same thing that Sens. Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mark Begich of Alaska have in common. They bucked their parties today in allowing...
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) talks with a reporter outside the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill on March 22, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Ted Cruz’s Silver Elephant Dinner: Debut Tour of 2016 Party Circuit
It’s never too early to book a dinner for the 2016 primary elections. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky already is lined up for the Iowa Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner on May 10. And now comes word from the Palmetto...
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 24, 2013, to introduce legislation on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices.
Cruzing for a Lecture: Feinstein on Guns
Ted Cruz, the first-year Republican senator from Texas who has taken on some senior lawmakers in rhetorical fisticuffs during his debut on Capitol Hill, ran into one contender today who showed little patience for his brashness. Cruz put a question...
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