Republican Party (US)

Type: Organization

Name: Republican Party (US) (GOP, Republicans, Grand Old Party)

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for Republican Party (US)

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 8 reports

Rep. Robin Kelly votes against GOP bill hiking interest rates on student loans

Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02) voted today to keep college within reach for Illinois students by voting against H.R.1911, also known as the Smarter Solutions for Students Act. The bill would force students into loans with skyrocketing interest rates, ... [Published Examiner.com - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Robin Kelly, Republican Party (US), student loan, Encumbrance

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 6 reports

Bob Goodlatte

Immigration reform is stuck in House, but 'gang' is resolute

Bipartisan immigration reformers in the House haven’t yet managed to clinch a deal, missing their self-imposed deadline, but neither has the group called it quits.The group of four Democrats and four Republicans has been working for months on a fix to ... [Published Yahoo! News - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Immigration, Immigration Reform, Bob Goodlatte

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 11 reports

Republican Party (US)

Tea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate rift

A long-simmering feud between establishment Republicans and tea partyers broke into full view Thursday, with Sen. John McCain accusing younger colleagues of overplaying their hands and tempting Democr ... [Published Herald-Palladium - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Tea Party Movement, John McCain

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 4 hours ago - 9 reports

John McCain

Cruz tells McCain: There are 'more wacko birds in the Senate than suspected'

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in a challenge to fellow Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), said Thursday there are “more wacko birds in the Senate than suspected.” Speaking Thursday on the Senate floor, Cruz dismissed warnings from McCain about the dangers ... [Published The Hill - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Ted Cruz, John McCain, Rand Paul, Debt Ceiling, Republican Party (US)

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 5 reports

John Boehner

House GOP leaders pledge action on immigration

WASHINGTON - The Republican leaders of the House of Representatives are pledging to act to fix the nation's immigration system but making clear that they will not simply select legislation passed by the Senate.Republican House Speaker John Boehner of ... [Published The Oregon Herald - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Immigration, Republican Party (US), John Boehner

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 3 reports

Republicans chafe over financial statement request

Topics: GOP, republican, party, democrats, auditor, financial, statements, protestBATON ROUGE - Louisiana's Republican Party is blasting the legislative auditor's office after both the GOP and the state Democratic Party were asked to turn over financial ... [Published WBRZ-TV - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Financial Statement, Corroboration, Baton Rouge (United States)

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 7 hours ago - 12 reports

House Passes Bill to Speed Keystone Approval

House Republicans attempted to push through approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, passing a bill that would circumvent the need for a special permit from President Obama. ... [Published WSJ.com: What's News US - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Keystone XL Pipeline, Oil Pipeline, Republican Party (US)

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 7 hours ago - 10 reports

Boehner: House won’t pass Senate immigration bill

House Speaker John A. Boehner on Thursday flatly ruled out chances of the House passing the Senate?s immigration bill, saying his chamber will debate its own bill instead. Mr. Boehner and his top GOP lieutenants issued a joint statement that seemed designed ... [Published Washington Times - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Immigration, Republican Party (US), Nancy Pelosi, Illegal Immigrants, US Department of Homeland Security

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 4 reports

House passes GOP student loan bill, sets up Obama showdown

The House on Thursday passed a Republican bill that would permanently peg federal student loan interest rates to government interest rates, defying a veto threat from President Obama. Members passed the Smarter Solutions for Students Act, H.R. 1911, in ... [Published The Hill - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Republican Party (US), student loan, Barack Obama, George Miller, John Kline

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 10 reports

The U.S. House of Representatives should reject GOP student loan bill

U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene’s bill would extend current low student loan interest rates.(Photo by Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times)The House of Representatives should reject a plan by Congressional Republicans to avert a scheduled doubling of student loan interest ... [Published Seattle Times - 9 hours ago]

Entities: student loan, Republican Party (US), Suzan DelBene, US House of Representatives

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 18 hours ago - 9 reports

Flashback: GOP has a history of blocking disaster aid

Oklahoma lawmakers seeking federal funds to help their tornado-ravaged state find themselves in a tough position, as the aid likely coming their way comes from a source they opposed in September 2011.Both Republican Sens. Tom Coburn and James Inhofe voted ... [Published Newsvine - May 22 2013]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Disaster, Eric Cantor

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 17 reports

Immigration vote shows strength of deal, pitfalls ahead

The SenateJudiciary Committee?s 13-5 vote Tuesday to send the immigration bill to the full chamber floor exposed some of the fractures in the coalition but also highlighted surprising resilience and showed just how far Democrats and their interest group ... [Published Washington Times - May 22 2013]

Entities: Immigration, Orrin Hatch, Biometrics

Quotes

"It's ridiculous that students are being charged 6.8 percent interest, when you can get a mortgage on a house for 3.5 percent" said Zach Nostdal, a 28-year-old graduate student at Seattle's University of...

House Backs Variable Rate Student Loans [Published Lakeland Ledger - 28 mins ago]

"This is really bad tax policy," said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka. "I cant participate in tax policy that is just going to take this state down the road to ruin" he said

Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax [Published Lawrence Journal-World - 51 mins ago]

...It will change every year, just like predatory adjustable rate mortgages. Congresswoman Kelly says that passage of the GOP bill "raising the interest rate on student loans would be pricing Illinois students out of the American Dream."

Rep. Robin Kelly votes against GOP bill hiking interest rates on student loans [Published Examiner.com - 1 hour ago]

The rich and super-rich who call the shots in Washington are not elected members of what Abraham Lincoln called our "government of the people, by the people, for the people." They have not taken an oath to preserve and defend the Constitution...

John D'Amico [Published Press of Atlantic City - 1 hour ago]

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Senate GOP bill opens way for another casino in... [Published Buffalo News - 21 mins ago]
Bipartisan Legislation to Reform TSCA Introduce... [Published Baker & Daniels - 26 mins ago]
Casino Bill Introduced [Published WICZ - 28 mins ago]
NYS Senate Bill Proposes Five Upstate Casinos [Published WICZ - 28 mins ago]
House Backs Variable Rate Student Loans [Published Lakeland Ledger - 28 mins ago]
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Does GOP want to go there? [Published Bladen Journal - 34 mins ago]
Engineer at Elite Army Weapons Lab Tied to Raci... [Published Newsvine - 36 mins ago]
REP. AKIN: GOP'needs to stopeating its own' [Published WorldNetDaily - 38 mins ago]
Commentary: Colleges say 'no' to conservatives [Published Savannah Morning News - 42 mins ago]
With an eye to '14 campaign, Democrats back min... [Published The Connecticut Mirror - 46 mins ago]
Senate Dems fail to overturn ‘Monsanto Protec... [Published New York Daily News - 51 mins ago]
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IRS official on leave refusedto resign, says GO... [Published Lucianne.com - 1 hour ago]
Obama nominates Benghazi talking points redacto... [Published The Hill - 1 hour ago]
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Penn Hills incumbents secure nominations; schoo... [Published Pittsburgh Tribune Review - 1 hour ago]
Rep. Robin Kelly votes against GOP bill hiking ... [Published Examiner.com - 1 hour ago]
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Kirsten Powers: Don't blame liberalism for Whit... [Published Indianapolis Star - 1 hour ago]
John D'Amico [Published Press of Atlantic City - 1 hour ago]
Obama Nominates Benghazi Scapegoat for Promotion [Published Kevin Drum Feed \| Mother Jones - 1 hour ago]
More anti-women, anti-gay GOP candidates [Published Democratic Party - 1 hour ago]
Obama: U.S. at ‘crossroads’ in fight against te... [Published Washington Post - 1 hour ago]
Clinton 2016 – potentially huge if/then statement [Published Thomasville Times-Enterprise - 1 hour ago]
IRS, EPA and HUD will close Friday [Published Washington Post - 1 hour ago]
Impeachment: Rush is wrong this time [Published WorldNetDaily - 1 hour ago]

Blogs

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Obama Nominates Benghazi Scapegoat for Promotion [Published Kevin Drum Feed \| Mother Jones - 1 hour ago] Oh yeah, this is going to be fun: The State Department spokeswoman who earlier this month found herself in the middle of the controversy surrounding key revisions to the Benghazi talking points appears to be in line for a promotion. The White House ...
Heilemann Calls Out Priebus for Trying to Invol... [Published Crooks and Liars - 2 hours ago] Click here to view this media Hey what do you know -- someone on Morning Joe got to call out a Republican for pulling factoids out of their posterior without Scarborough there screaming over them and interrupting. I guess he was taking a break during ...
Republican Job Creation Score= 0 [Published Stubborn Liberal - 2 hours ago] No matter how hard the Republicans try, they just can't get a scandal investigation going that would impeach President Obama. The public is clearly becoming upset with the Boehner-Cantor-McConnell-Paul Ryan GOP leadership and their conservative enablers. ...
Day 3: McCain vs. tea party senators [Published CNN Political Ticker - 3 hours ago] Washington (CNN) - Republican ideologies clashed on the Senate floor for the third straight day Thursday as a group of tea party insurgents took on one of the GOP's most senior and established members in an acrimonious dispute over how to move forward ...
Greenwald Responds to BRAD BLOG Commenter Charg... [Published The BRAD BLOG - 3 hours ago] Yesterday, we ran a very short piece arguing that "Fox 'News' and Republicans Were For Prosecuting Journalists Before They Were Against It" . In it, we briefly documented the Obama DoJ's attack on journalists and journalism, as most recently highlighted ...

Audio/Video

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Republicans to Speaker Boehner: It's time to pa... [Published Nancy Pelosi - YouTube - May 22 2013]
Threat of Nuclear Option Is Really a Pretext fo... [Published Senator Mitch McConnell - YouTube Channel - May 22 2013]
Secretary Duncan Joins House GOP in Support for... [Published Education and Labor Republicans - YouTube Channel - May 21 2013]
McConnell Calls for Lifting Import Sanctions Ag... [Published Senator Mitch McConnell - YouTube Channel - May 21 2013]
5/21 GOP Leadership Press Conference [Published Rep. John Boehner - YouTube Channel - May 21 2013]

Press Releases

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Marketplace Fairness Act Facing Congressional O... [Published Financial Services - May 21 2013]
Investigate the Investigators of Bucks County S... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - May 16 2013]
CI Games Unveils Lords of the Fallen for Next-G... [Published Business Wire Technology News - May 16 2013]
CI Games Unveils Lords of the Fallen for Next-G... [Published Business Wire Photo/Multimedia News - May 16 2013]
Fear of a Black Republican Gets New York City P... [Published PR.com Press Releases - May 14 2013]