GOP Offensive Targets Critics of Bond Package
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By Michael Sluss mike.sluss@roanoke.com (804) 697-1585  Virginia Republicans are mounting an aggressive public relations effort to build support for a $2.5 billion transportation bond package and accusing critics -- including Gov.
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Faced with fending off the backlash from the Mark Foley scandal, House Republicans took the offensive Friday, asking Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other rivals to testify about whether they engaged in partisan trickery by releasing Foley's messages weeks before the midterm elections.
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Democrats and at least some Republicans are seeking political gain by attacking the defense secretary.
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Leading members of President Bush's  Republican Party on Sunday criticized mistakes and  "incompetence" in his Iraq policy and called for an urgent  ground offensive to retake insurgent sanctuaries.
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E-mail records show Air Force Secretary James G. Roche put pressure on opponents of a plan to lease Boeing 767 tanker aircraft.
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Republicans determined to win in November are up against a troublesome trend &#151; growing opposition to President Bush.
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The bill, which would establish the post of national intelligence director, has powerful critics in both parties.
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As Republican presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter has staked out the U.S.-Mexico border fence as one of this top priorities, he has repeatedly criticized the Department of Homeland Security for planning to build only half of the 700 miles of border fence authorized by Congress last year and acting too slowly to do even that.
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Investor's Business Daily - Hoping to stem a Democratic tide in November's midterm elections, Republicans in Congress are promising an "aggressive" agenda focused on their usual strong suit -- national security.
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President Bush and Republicans have gained some ground in their bid to hold onto Congress as a sustained GOP effort to portray Democrats and Iraq war critics as appeasing terrorists has swayed voters.
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The case of Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho, who pleaded guilty to trying to solicit sex at an airport, is the latest challenge to the Republican Party.
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During a packed hearing on Fannie Mae&#39;s accounting practices last week, Rep. Richard H. Baker (R-La.), a leading critic of the District-based mortgage finance company, displayed a poster
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Two leading U.S. Senate critics of  China's currency policy pressed on Thursday for action on a  bill that would threaten steep tariffs, in a show of  frustration days before Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is to  make his first official visit to China.
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A broad bipartisan immigration deal was threatened Tuesday as the Senate prepared to vote on a Republican proposal to make it harder for millions of illegal immigrants to qualify for green cards.
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Republicans on Monday laid the groundwork to contest the gubernatorial election, airing a litany of allegations and concerns over the way the election and its three counts were administered, particularly in King County.
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The presidentÂs call for creating military tribunals to try terror suspects has erupted into a clash with some of the best-known Republican Party warriors.
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Senate Democrats on Monday attacked the House Republican plan to address the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations, with one senator calling its proposal for a national intelligence director "too weak."