Cole, Seeking NRCC Debt Relief, Fuels Push for Member Donations
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Making sure that the Republicans, now in the House minority, have enough money for their 2008 comeback effort is a top early priority for Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole in his role as the new chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).
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Some people with thousands of dollars of credit card debt say describing their fiscal intimacies online helps push them to pay it off.
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The head of the Galveston County Democratic Party is publicly asking local State Representative Larry Taylor to return more than $55,000 he received in campaign contributions from a political action committee after the executive director of the committee
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A local committee helping the Republican National Committee hold its New York convention raised roughly &#36;60 million to &#36;70 million in private money for the event. Corporate donors include:
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Millionaire tells Commons committee about being asked for a loan
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Bill that would speed rebates of $600 to most taxpayers heads to Senate with bipartisan appeal to senators not to jeopardize bill with changes.
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The devastation caused by Sunday&#39;s tsunami in South Asia has caused many Fairbanksans to come forward asking how they can contribute to relief efforts, according to a local Red Cross representative.
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With many lawmakers eager to help their own regions, Congress is unlikely to act as quickly on President Bush's latest request for hurricane aid as they did on his first package.
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Minnesota politicians are pressing the state's biggest corporations to help pick up the fundraising pace for the 2008 Republican Convention and offering benefits for major donors, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Groups representing most facets of the nation's health care system are lining up in support of a large spending increase for a popular children's insurance program.
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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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By PHIL DAVIS  ESTERO, Fla. - An unexpected $10 million congressional earmark might seem like money from heaven for a fast-growing county needing billions for transportation improvements. Not when it comes to Coconut Road.
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Most of the nation's charities are attempting to raise additional funds by selling the names of donors to marketing organizations or swapping mailing lists with other nonprofits, a charity watchdog group said yesterday.
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The chief executive of Costco Wholesale, the nation's largest wholesale club, yesterday became the most prominent member of a new organization of business owners and executives pressing Congress to approve an increase in the federal minimum wage.
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Union delegates, asbestos victims and workers are marching from Melbourne&#39;s Trades Hall to the Stock Exchange, calling on James Hardie to provide sufficient funds for asbestos victims.
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Three dozen farm and banking groups  called on Tuesday for Congress to pass without delay $6.5  billion in disaster relief for rural America amid signs that  aid might become an election-year issue.
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Club of sovereign lenders next meets on January 20 and it hopes it will free up more funds for reconstruction. The proposal came amid concerns over ballooning costs of reconstruction from the tsunami that killed over 45,000 people in Indonesia.