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Google to Help Congress Become More Efficient?

Tech giant honcho Eric Schmidt met with GOP transition head

(Newser) - Google’s CEO made a stop at the House Republican transition office days after the election—but not to talk politics. In a discussion centered around upping Congressional efficiency, Eric Schmidt spoke with GOP transition head Greg Walden, explaining how Google could help Congress by making it possible to edit...

Bachmann Drops Bid for GOP Brass

That huge sigh of relief? John Boehner

(Newser) - Michele Bachmann may rule the House wingnuts index, but she won't be ruling the House GOP in any form. The outspoken Minnesota rep and Tea Partier announced last night that she's ending her bid for the GOP's No. 4 House leadership position, reports the New York Times, which notes...

GOP Demands End to Expired Program
GOP Demands End to Expired Program
Nov 10, 2010 12:13 PM CST

GOP Demands End to Expired Program

Panel blasts $2.5B welfare initiative that no longer exists

(Newser) - In a drive to cut the deficit, a GOP committee called for an end to a $2.5 billion dollar welfare program this week—which might have been a clever move if the program hadn’t already expired, notes Arthur Delaney at the Huffington Post . The committee’s leader slammed...

New Republicans Talk Up Term Limits

Half say they'll limit terms, support term limit legislation

(Newser) - In the first boost to the term limit movement in years, a host of new Republican lawmakers are promising not to overstay their welcomes. Roughly half of the more than 80 new GOP House members have promised to limit their tenures, as have several new senators, Politico reports; their targets...

No. of Feds Making Over $150K Soars

GOP to attack government pay in lame-duck Congress

(Newser) - The number of federal government employees making at least $150,000 a year is 10 times what it was five years ago, and it has doubled since President Obama’s inauguration, says a study by USA Today . House GOP members are hoping to pounce on the issue as the lame-duck...

John Boehner, GOP Will Fail
 John Boehner, 
 GOP Will Fail 
OPINION
Nov 8, 2010 10:36 AM CST

John Boehner, GOP Will Fail

This was no endorsement of the Republican agenda

(Newser) - Republicans crowing from the rooftops about the mandate they got on Election Day can cork it and come back down to Earth to face the music, writes Markos Moulitsas Zuniga in the Christian Science Monitor —because John Boehner and Co. are doomed. Tuesday wasn't an embrace of a GOP...

Republicans Look to Hobble Health Reform

May force partisan standoff

(Newser) - The GOP may not have the votes to repeal health care reform, but they're still setting their sights on it. Incoming Republicans say they plan to curtail the controversial law by finding creative ways to hobble it, finds the New York Times . They may, for instance, cut funding and personnel...

Bachmann Battling for Leadership Spot

But GOP leadership is strongly against it

(Newser) - Michele Bachmann is campaigning hard for a Republican leadership position—much to the chagrin of the House’s top Republicans. Bachmann wants to chair the House Republican Conference, a major position that would make her the fourth-ranked Republican in the chamber. The only problem, in the words of Salon ’...

GOP Beats Incumbents in Virginia, Florida

 GOP Will 
 Take Over 
 House 
the house
Nov 2, 2010 8:52 PM CDT

GOP Will Take Over House

Perriello loses in Virginia, Grayson in Florida

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi's reign as House speaker will soon be over. Republicans will easily take control of the House of Representatives by night's end, say both CNN and NBC . The GOP entered the evening needing to gain 39 seats, and they'll likely end up with about 60, a development that will...

Boehner's Wall-Street Cash Bolsters Tea Party Hopefuls

House Minority Leader spreads business-backed wealth

(Newser) - John Boehner typically gets a healthy dose of campaign cash from Wall Street and blue-chip corporations, and this election season, he’s doling it out to tea party-backed hopefuls. The House Minority Leader has distributed $320,000 to 39 such candidates, suggesting a GOP “stamp of approval” for a...

GOP Holds Lead in Home Stretch
 GOP Holds Lead 
 in Home Stretch 
Scoreboard Update
Oct 20, 2010 8:44 AM CDT

GOP Holds Lead in Home Stretch

Enthusiasm gap leaves Democrats trailing in likely voters

(Newser) - Republicans are in the driver’s seat as the 2010 election winds down, despite a vigorous last-ditch push from Democrats, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll. Overall, registered voters narrowly prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress to a Republican-controlled one, but among likely voters, Republicans hold a 50%-43% edge. In...

Republicans Now Waging 'War on Arithmetic'
Republicans Now Waging
'War on Arithmetic'
Paul Krugman
Sep 24, 2010 12:39 PM CDT

Republicans Now Waging 'War on Arithmetic'

Paul Krugman: The new 'pledge' will bring us a 'banana republic'

(Newser) - Republicans have outdone themselves with their Pledge to America , writes Paul Krugman. The manifesto complains over and over about the national debt, but its main policy idea is to extend all the Bush tax breaks—while offering relatively few spending cuts. "Never mind the war on terror, the party’...

Pundits Pan 'Pledge to America'
 Pundits Pan 'Pledge to America' 
OPINION ROUNDUP
Sep 23, 2010 1:52 PM CDT

Pundits Pan 'Pledge to America'

Well, except the 'National Review'

(Newser) - The reviews are in for House Republicans' new " Pledge to America ," and mostly they ain't pretty. Here's what people are saying:
  • Erick Erickson of RedState hates it, calling it “a series of compromises and milquetoast rhetorical flourishes in search of unanimity among House Republicans. … It is
...

GOP 'Pledge': We'll Repeal Health Care Law

House Republicans roll out their manifesto tomorrow

(Newser) - House Republicans will head to a hardware store in Virginia tomorrow to unveil their Pledge to America, billed as a comprehensive set of reforms along the lines of Newt Gingrich's Contract With America in 1994. Democrats already say it's the same-old, same-old. Politico and the Wall Street Journal hit some...

What GOP Will Do With a House Majority

Republicans will cut off cash to key Dem initiatives

(Newser) - If Republicans win the House in November, they’ll highlight their differences with Democrats by starving signature policies—like health care—of cash, the Wall Street Journal reports. Although the GOP hopes to repeal the health care bill in the House, such a measure would likely fail in the Senate,...

Drumbeat of Bad News Continues for Dems

Forecast sees GOP takeover of House

(Newser) - Democrats better fasten their rally caps. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has for the first time in this election cycle projected a GOP takeover of the House, notes Taegan Goddard's Political Wire blog . "We are revising our House forecast to a Republican gain of at least 40 seats, the...

GOP's Policies Are Cheap, Incoherent

 GOP's 
 Policies 
 Are Cheap, 
 Incoherent 
Ruth Marcus
Aug 25, 2010 11:03 AM CDT

GOP's Policies Are Cheap, Incoherent

John Boehner isn't the kind of opposition leader we need

(Newser) - Sometimes, Ruth Marcus thinks it would be nice if the country had a divided government. It would force the GOP to quit posturing and start governing, and allow Democrats to make hard choices on entitlement spending. “That’s the theory. Then there’s John Boehner,” she laments in...

Boehner: Raise Retirement Age to 70
Boehner: Raise Retirement Age to 70
Jun 29, 2010 3:18 PM CDT

Boehner: Raise Retirement Age to 70

American people need to know 'we're broke'

(Newser) - House Republican leader John Boehner thinks the retirement age should be raised to 70 for those who still have at least 20 years to go in the work force. "We need to look at the American people and explain to them that we're broke," he tells the Pittsburgh ...

GOP Leaders Ordered Barton to Apologize, 'Immediately'

Boehner, Cantor laid down the law

(Newser) - So what prompted Joe Barton's quick retraction of his apology to BP ? A sincere change of heart, maybe. Or it could have been the meeting with House GOP leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor, who told him, "Apologize, immediately. Or you will lose your (committee) position, immediately,"...

Capitol Hill's Favorite New Book: The Big Short

Lawmakers love how it explains meltdown

(Newser) - Listen to debate over financial reform on Capitol Hill for any length of time and you might think lawmakers were being paid to plug The Big Short, by Michael Lewis. They're not; they just love the way the book explains the financial meltdown and how a handful of investors made...

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