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For Republicans like Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, political fortunes reached low ebb on Election Day 2008, when Democrats won the White House and expanded their majorities in both houses of Congress.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn , R-Tenn., will give the Republican response following President Barack Obama 's weekly radio address on Saturday.A vocal opponent of climate-change remedies including the cap-and-trade legislation that passed the House in June, Blackburn is expected to talk about the climate negotiations under way in Copenhagen on Saturday, then travel to the talks, her ...
Guests on today’s TV news shows: • ABC’s “This Week,” 9:30 a.m. — Guests: Lawrence Summers, director of the White House ’s National Economic Council; Rep. Eric Cantor , Virginia Republican.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as he prepares to argue for action at the international climate conference, President Barack Obama is getting some reminders of the domestic political divide — and anxiety — over climate change.
By The Associated PressGuest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:------ABC's "This Week" -- Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council; Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.------CBS' "Face the Nation" -- Sens.
ABC's "This Week" | Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council; Rep. Eric Cantor , R-Va.
Senate Republicans say they want to “smoke out” Democratic senators who could help them bring down the health care bill, and so far, they think they’ve found one in Sen. Jim Webb.
By electing governors of Virginia and New Jersey, Republicans have demonstrated that two trends suggested in recent opinion polls are for real. The first is that Republicans have pulled off a remarkable comeback after disastrous election defeats in 2006 and 2008. The second is that they now have a realistic shot at capturing the House and gaining Senate seats in the 2010 midterm election.
Col. Van T. Barfoot has gained another powerful ally in his fight to keep flying the American flag from a front-yard pole.U.S. Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-7th., today introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives resolving that any recipient of the Medal of Honor be permitted to “properly display” the flag from the recipient’s property.While the resolution notes that Barfoot, who lives in ...
In asking Congress for a second major stimulus effort in a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, President Obama showed a new partisan edge
Congressman Brett Guthrie joined a handful of Republican representatives for a GOP press conference on job growth.
Executives from almost a dozen top banks arrived at the White House - ready read more
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Republican officials in the U.S. House of Representatives said Friday that U.S. President Barack Obama should support three struggling trade pacts.
The Great Flagpole Dispute of 2009 started last summer when Van T. Barfoot, a retired Army colonel who single-handedly took on three Nazi tanks in World War II, moved to the Sussex Square neighborhood near Richmond to be closer to his daughter. Barfoot believes in flying the colors of the nation he...
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer on Monday said Republicans have failed the test of leadership by refusing to come to the table on the big issues facing the country, offering a preview of a line of attack in next year's campaigns. The Maryland Democrat, in a speech to the Center for American Progress Action Fund, said Republicans are making all of Congress less effective by deadlocking on ...
The voters have spoken: they would like 8 million jobs created now, please
