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...significance of this latter provision is that Utah is one of the most heavily Republican states in the Union, while D.C. is among the most Democratic sectors of the country due to its disproportionately high African-American population. In order for the bill to pass, the entailed increase in Democratic congressional representation had to be balanced by an equivalent increase in Republican congressional representation...
...husband, Gary Sebelius, is a federal magistrate judge. (His father, Keith Sebelius, was a prominent Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.) The couple has two sons, Ned and John...
...Bachmann, Rep. Michele • Republican party chairman Michael Steele is told...
...case of the current budget, Republicans - who themselves account for 40% of the earmark requests - are howling at what they view as Obama's blatant hypocrisy. House minority leader John Boehner and nine other House Republicans sent Pelosi and Obama a letter asking for a freeze in spending levels and for a re-examination of the earmarks in the bill. "There are 9,000 reasons to vote against this spending bill - 9,000 earmarks slipped and crammed into this pork-stuffed nightmare," Representative John Shadegg, an Arizona Republican, said on Wednesday in a statement. "Last night, President Obama bragged about...
...time - has said that he expects to hold hearings in the spring. By all accounts, the bill will go through the usual committee process in an effort to draw as much bipartisan support as possible. Democrats control the Senate with 58 votes - two votes short of preventing a Republican filibuster, so at least some GOP support must be drawn. There has been concern among the stakeholders that the Republicans have not been in any of the meetings thus far; one person involved in the talks said they have been invited but have declined to attend, though several participants have said...