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...through murmuring on the House floor after newly elected Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., broke with fellow members of the Republican caucus by voting for Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., instead of Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, for Speaker of...
...the effort to develop solutions that will work for Alaska.Finally, the addition of Stedman and Stevens to the Republican caucus adds some balance to what had looked like a near-exclusive enclave of Railbelt legislators.A caucus without representation...
...includes the three men who Fairbanks voters chose to serve in the Senate: Coghill, Kelly and Click Bishop.The Republican caucus has improved prospects for the governor's oil tax ambitions. However, victory still is not certain.For one...
...the Los Angeles Times:Before Tuesday's Iowa Republican caucuses, predictions were that the top three finishers...campaigns have to start somewhere, and Iowa's Republican caucus-goers are more reflective of the GOP electorate...
...House in 2000. Young has clashed with fellow Republicans in Congress, and has been stripped of his seniority by the Republican caucus, in part over accusations of ethical transgressions. Crawford said that eliminates the argument for keeping Young...
...has the power to do by himself. "It's not something that Mitch McConnell can do on his own, its up to the (Republican) caucus as a whole," said Robert Dillon, Republican Press Secretary for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee...
...leadership role in the GOP caucus and could lose her Energy Committee position as soon as Wednesday if the 41-member Republican caucus votes to remove her in a secret ballot. The events marked a swift downfall for Murkowski, who in her first full...
...Leader Ethan Berkowitz of Anchorage said that in the Legislature there are donkeys, elephants and, in the Senate Republican caucus, ostriches. "They're very good at doing nothing, so they keep on doing nothing," Berkowitz said. Rep. Bill...
...two-thirds vote, he said. "In some ways she is liberated completely from some of the craziness that goes on in the Republican caucus," Berkowitz said. Harris said the Democrats also have a history of tightening their grip on their members. Berkowitz...
...machine politics," Knowles predicted. Meanwhile, on funding for the Pioneers' and Veterans' Homes, the House Republican caucus apparently doesn't plan to grant the governor's request for $2.6 million. The money would be used to fill...