GOP's family feud over spending
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The Christian Science Monitor - Just 35 hours after they passed a $2.8 trillion budget for FY 2007 with zero Democratic votes, House Republicans ran into a wall: the division between appropriators and fiscal hawks in their own ranks.
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Facts and figures on spending in the presidential race:
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The Republicans' senatorial campaign arm, which lagged behind other national party committees in fundraising the past two years, emerged from the Nov. 7 election in debt and is soliciting donations to get out of the red.
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Partisan sniping over Congress' targeted spending escalated Monday as a House committee chairman threatened to kill all pet projects if Republican leaders "demagogue" the issue.
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A Maryland family caught in the partisan crossfire over a children's health-care bill in Congress is now stepping back into the divisive debate, advocating this time for state legislation that would expand coverage for adults.
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Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul on Sunday defended his efforts in Congress to bring home money to his Texas district, despite his long-held aversion to big government and congressional votes to reign in federal spending.
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As negotiations begin on an economic stimulus package, the big fight will be over whether to put extra money in the hands of low-income families who paid little or no income tax last year.
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The big fight on economic stimulus will be over whether to put more money in the hands of low-income families who paid little or no income tax last year.
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Mitt Romney and John McCain sparred Sunday over their tax and spending records and who was a better agent for change, in the second Republican debate in as many days as the clock wound down to the New Hampshire primary.
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There are plenty of signs that Republicans are hunkering down against an aggressive and well-financed Democratic effort to reclaim the House majority it lost in 1994 Ã¢ÂÂ including the $12.5 million in Ã¢ÂÂindependent expendituresÃ¢ÂÂ that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) reported making in September.
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Candidates from both parties are getting help from their family members on the presidential campaign trail. A sampling:
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Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said.
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With the Senate poised for a showdown on Iraq today, Republicans along the campaign trail and on Capitol Hill appear trapped between their loyalty to President Bush and growing fears about the war's impact on the party's political fortunes.
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Some critics question proposed federal spending hikes for nuclear research.
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Many Democrats complained during the debate Thursday that majority Republicans who control Congress should have offset the lost revenue to keep the nation&#39;s soaring deficits from getting worse.
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Tempers flare over Va. Republicans' handling of controversial collective bargaining measure.
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Former senator is the only Republican who gets heated about entitlement spending.