Word: gop
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...Despite pressure from fellow Republican Senators to hold on to her seat while she runs for governor, Hutchison is being opaque about her plans. Already some well-known GOP names in Texas have announced they will run for Hutchison's seat whenever she moves on. They include Republican railroad commissioners Michael Williams and Elizabeth Ames Jones. Hutchison's resignation would allow Perry to name her replacement, supposedly giving that person an advantage in a special election. But special elections in Texas have an unpredictable quality. In 1961, after Lyndon B. Johnson's move from the Senate to the vice presidency...
...Obama pushes to move the measure to the right to gain more GOP support, he risks losing the Democrats who feel he has already given away too much in proposed tax cuts to win over Republicans. And if he moves to curtail the more open process he prefers and instead force the bill through over GOP objections, Obama could be accused of going against the bipartisan spirit he promised to foster in the nation's capital. In other words, Obama may quickly find himself forced to choose between betraying his party and betraying his principles. (See pictures of the best...
...agenda and Obama campaign promises. Obama had hoped he could get away with such far-reaching measures by also making tax cuts a large part of the bill, but the House version ended up with fewer tax cuts than he had envisioned. Not surprisingly, Republicans in the Senate - where GOP support is more essential than in the House (where Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds a much larger majority) - have expressed disappointment. "We believe that, regretfully, the stimulus package seems to be drifting off as a result of the package that we've observed that the House Democrats approved, kind of drifting...
While Republicans greeted the news that Emanuel would take the White House helm with some trepidation, he has since surprised many of the worried by courting them. One of his first meetings on Capitol Hill after taking the job was with the Senate GOP leadership. "He gave us all his personal cell-phone" number, said Nevada Senator John Ensign. "He said he promised to get back to us on issues within 24 hours." But Emanuel cannot count on these moments of goodwill to last for long. The position is not one for anybody who craves job security. Typically, chiefs...
...cuts cross pressured all of the GOP groups," said a top Republican lobbyist who described Obama's transition as "brilliant." "How do groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or the National Association of Manufacturers come out against them? He very quickly picked off all the important interest groups and locked in a lot of votes with those proposals...