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Boehner pushing for Alaska drilling
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
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House Republican Leader John Boehner called Thursday for Democrats to allow a vote on a GOP-crafted energy bill that would, among other things, open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. Boehner underscored the push last weekend by taking...
Tags: The House of Representatives, Senate Democrats, million barrels, Congress, gasoline prices, house republican, gop kills, released oil, democrats fail, gas prices
Delegation fighting offshore drilling
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Rep. Christopher Shays continued this week to shun his party's love affair with big oil by voting with Democrats to block drilling in environmentally sensitive areas. Shays, R-4, was one of 26 House Republicans who crossed party lines Thursday to support...
GOP uses gas prices to attract voters
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Battered by poor poll numbers and rampant retirements in their ranks, congressional Republicans are pounding Democrats over record gas prices to try to win back voters in the November election. GOP leaders attack the Democrat-led House and Senate daily...
Tags: Senate GOP, Arctic Alaska, R-Alaska, house republican, gas prices, John Boehner
Democrats Open Door to Offshore Drilling
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Faced with mounting pressure from voters to respond to record gasoline prices, some senior Democratic lawmakers Tuesday opened the door to a compromise with Republicans that would open more land on and offshore to oil and gas exploration and production.
Tags: Pelosi Urges Bush, Nancy Pelosi, George W. Bush, release oil, White House, house speaker, House Republican, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, speaker nancy
Republican jitters heighten after three straight losses
Davis :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility But after losing their third seat this year in a special election, House Republicans faced the possibility Wednesday of another rough November. A Democratic pickup streak that started with Rep. Bill Foster's upset victory in the March election to replace...
Tags: obama, GOP Avoid Election Disaster, House, house republican, National Republican Congressional Committee, gop leaders, elections losses, Travis Childers, congressional races
GOP stalls House action on housing bailout
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Miller May 8, 2008 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, said that Americans "deserve the House's bipartisan housing plan," not a veto threat from the president. (United Press International) House Republicans dragged the chamber to a standstill...
Tags: Bush, Congress, House Republican, George W. Bush, House Democratic, House Democrats, housing crisis, housing bills, broad housing, reward speculators
Bush threatens to veto housing rescue plan
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The White House on Tuesday threatened a veto of Democrats' broad housing rescue plan, calling it a burdensome bailout that would open taxpayers to too much risk. The threat came as the House prepares to vote Wednesday on the package, which is aimed at...
Tags: White House, House Republican, Republican House, Bush, House of Representatives, white housing, housing rescue, FHA, Veto Housing-Relief Bill, Congress
Bill to crimp payday lenders
Springfield :: OH :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Ohio House passed one of the toughest payday-lending bills in the nation Wednesday despite last-minute political jockeying that nearly derailed it. The state legislation would set a 28 percent cap on annual interest and fees on payday loans, blamed...
Tags: Ohio House, House Republican, House Financial Institutions Committee
Boehner: âWe are going to gain seats this yearâ
Tripoli :: Libya | about 1 year ago
Credibility And they did, Boehner said Thursday during a Christian Science Monitor luncheon. “[Rep.] Ron Paul [R-Texas] wrote us a check for the first time ever,” he said. Paul’s campaign office did not immediately return a call for comment...Doug Thornell
Tags: House Republican
House leaders decide to support both dueling tax plans
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility House Republican leaders say they've found a way to settle the debate between two dueling tax plans: Adopt them both. House Speaker Glenn Richardson unveiled new versions of the two competing plans Tuesday which would ultimately cost the state
Tags: House Republican, tax plans
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