Sunday, April 22, 2012

Gop freshmen

  • In 1790 the first Congress, assembled in New York's Federal Hall, was consumed with the young nation's $54.1 million debt accumulated in the Revolutionary War. Rep.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Time and again last year, House Republican leaders faced a nearly in­trac­table opponent: the very freshman class that propelled them into the majority with the historic 2010 midterm elections.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Republican Representative Michael Grimms office was filled with conservative Tea Party activists one day last month and they werent happy. Why, they asked, hadnt the first-term lawmaker done more to slash U.S.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • National Journals Dan Friedman talked to freshman Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., who said he does not know if he will vote for Obama or presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney in November. Ill look at the options, Manchin said.
  • (NewsHour)
  • BOSTON - Marc Lombardo says he didnt come to Beacon Hill to go along and get along.
  • (Sentinel & Enterprise)
  • The odds are very slim of the Democrats taking the House back. The wave of GOP freshman elected in 2010 from Florida, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania put the redistricting levers of power in key swing states into the hands of Republicans.
  • (United Press International)
  • Rising GOP star Sen.
  • (Record Searchlight)
  • Don Manzullo (Ill.) in his GOP primary against freshman Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.). The two ended up in the same district after redistricting. Cantor said he donated at the request of Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The House Republican freshmen — raucous, unpredictable, unmanageable and hell-bent on changing Washington — are about to face their biggest test: becoming sophomores.
  • (Politico.com)

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