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Reuters - Chances dimmed that a last-minute plan being crafted by Republican senators, with White House support, to provide $25 billion to bail out U.S. automakers would receive enough backing from Democrats to pass before the end of this week.
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CQPolitics.com - Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked Democratic efforts to tap the $700 billion financial bailout package to provide emergency aid to the U.S. auto industry, and Democrats refused to permit a GOP compromise to advance.
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Time.com - The Republican nominee wants to recultivate his reformist, maverick image, and the President-elect needs McCain’s help to get his agenda passed through Congress
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CQPolitics.com - The 2008 campaign chief for Senate Republicans said Wednesday that he is resigned to having lost Alaska but is optimistic about hanging on to Senate seats in Minnesota and Georgia.
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AP - House Republicans on Wednesday re-elected John Boehner as leader of their depleted ranks while putting together a more conservative team to represent them in the next, Democratic-controlled, Congress.
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AP - Gov. Sarah Palin, heralded by some conservatives as the future of the Republican Party, faces some cold political realities in present-day Alaska.
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AP - A grand jury is investigating whether Pennsylvania House Republican leaders illegally used a taxpayer-funded database as a campaign tool to better focus their messages to voters.
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CQPolitics.com - Unease among GOP lawmakers over the prospect of ejecting convicted felon Alaska Senator Ted Stevens from their caucus may forestall any action against him Tuesday.
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CQPolitics.com - The Senate’s longest-serving Republican, Ted Stevens of Alaska, escaped a rebuke from his colleagues Tuesday, but not, apparently, from the voters he has represented for 40 years.
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Reuters - Ohio Republican Rep. John Boehner survived a challenge on Wednesday to remain leader of his party’s shrinking minority in the U.S. House of Representatives, party aides said.
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