GOP Shuns Talking Contract With America
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Instead of a birthday cake for the Contract With America's 10th anniversary, Republicans at their national convention have given it a cold shoulder.
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Republican US Senate candidate Alan Keyes wasn&#39;t invited to speak Sunday at a dinner sponsored by the New Trier Township Republican Organization, but he showed up anyway.
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The White House is rejecting as premature a plan by two senior Republican senators to restrict the mission of U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a plan to give U.S. troops in Iraq more leave time, defeating a proposal widely considered the Democrat's best near-term chance to change President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, ignored a call by a conservative Washington newspaper for him to resign as fallout continued from the political scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley and his explicit instant messages.
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Republican congressional leaders struggled Wednesday to sidetrack legislation allowing prescription drugs to be imported, a pre-election controversy threatening to delay billion of dollars for homeland security.
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The fate of rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate Republicans blocked a bid to add $44 billion to the House-passed economic aid package
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President Bush's choice to head the Food and Drug Administration is refusing to give Congress all the information it seeks about a controversial antibiotic, setting up further confrontations with a Republican senator blocking his nomination.
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The House on Friday rejected a timetable for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq after a ferociously partisan debate, forcing lawmakers in both parties to go on record on a major issue in re-election campaigns nationwide.
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Democrats and Republicans both came out with tough talk on Bush's plan, but conditions exist for a compromise.
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Plans for the U.S. Congress to  approve a landmark deal that would allow India to buy U.S.  nuclear fuel and reactors hit a snag on Wednesday when  Republican leaders in the House of Representatives halted  action on the legislation, congressional sources said.
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An agreement reached on Saturday by congressional negotiators on post-Sept. 11 intelligence reforms was thrown into doubt by resistance by some Republicans in the House of Representatives.
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House Republicans are changing party rules to protect their leader, native Texan, Tom DeLay. The GOP is trying to help DeLay keep his job, even if he`s indicted by a Texas grand jury.
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The United States on Friday rejected  North Korea's demands for direct talks over its nuclear weapons  program and insisted on six-party negotiations.
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Republicans blocked the U.S. Senate on Saturday from considering a rebuke to President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup, but lawmakers vowed to continue waging a bitter struggle over war policy.
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Republicans blocked a debate on the Iraq war in the U.S. Senate on Monday, dealing a setback to critics of President George W. Bush's plan to send in thousands more troops, but Democrats warned they would not give up trying to force Bush to change course.
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Some quotes from Saturday's Republican presidential candidate debate in Manchester, N.H. Organizers excluded California Rep. Duncan Hunter.