Tag Archives: Family Research Council

Pence for President?

By:  Katrina Trinko NRO No one has gone straight from the House to the White House since James Garfield. Mike Pence might be the one. He hasn’t held executive office. He isn’t a paid Fox News contributor. He hasn’t written a best-seller or starred in a reality show. So is there any reason Rep. Mike [...]

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Pence Wins Straw Poll

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) won a surprise victory in the Family Research Council’s Values Voter presidential straw poll, narrowly edging out runner-up Mike Huckabee by 11 votes. Pence, the GOP’s Conference Chairman, won 24 percent of the vote, Huckabee 22 percent and Mitt Romney came in a more distant third, taking 13 percent of the [...]

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Bachmann raises for key GOP races

Rep. Michele Bachmann has already raised $4.5 million for her own reelection bid, and now she’s using that fundraising prowess to help Republicans take back the House. In a fundraising pitch sent Friday, the Minnesota Republican’s new Michele PAC implores supporters to “bring the Obama/Pelosi agenda to a screeching halt.” “We are focusing on 30 [...]

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Abortion foes wage war on old allies

By ALEX ISENSTADT Anti-abortion groups [Editor's note: we prefer the term "pro life"] are poised to launch a multimillion-dollar offensive against a collection of former allies — House Democrats who also oppose abortion — in an effort to discredit their credibility with anti-abortion voters and oust them from office. Four separate campaigns are in the [...]

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At CPAC, a New Conservative Order

Since Richard Nixon was president, the Conservative Political Action Conference has provided the American Right with an annual occasion for self-evaluation. On Thursday, when some 10,000 activists gather in Washington for this year’s conference, they will find themselves part of a conservative movement significantly different than it was during the Bush administration, or even in [...]

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Hatch: Healthcare bill ‘rich’ for challenges on constitutionality

By Tony Romm Democrats’ healthcare legislation is a “target-rich environment” for constitutional challenges and legal battles, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wrote on Saturday. The bill’s provisions for an insurance coverage mandate, a manifest Medicaid expansion and new insurance exchange all violate key sections of the country’s guiding legal document, wrote the senator in the Wall [...]

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