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GOP Rep: 'The Greatest Minority Under Assault Today Are Christians. No Doubt About It'

Posted 01.16.2012

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Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) addressed a crowd gathered Monday at a South Carolina Tea Party conference and resolutely concluded that "the greatest minorit...

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Anti-Union Front Group Launches Major Ad Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A D.C.-based front group representing corporate interests will be rolling out a $10 million national advertising campaign next week to p...

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Republicans Introduce Bill Aimed At Crippling Labor Board

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.18.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans introduced a bill Tuesday afternoon aimed directly at scuttling a controversial complaint issued by the National Labor...

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WATCH: GOP Lawmaker Floats Impeachment For Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.05.2011

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WASHINGTON -- While some have asserted that the debt limit might be unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment, and therefore President Obama does not ...

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Fresh Ways To Donate: GOP Frosh Form PACs

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.20.2011

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Keeping Republican Ideas Strong Timely And Inventive. Reinventing A New Direction. Protecting Our Republican Team. American Liberty And Nation. Grassr...

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GOP Using Outcome Of Debt Ceiling Vote To Push Medicare Reforms

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 07.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Republicans are using the lopsided outcome of Tuesday's failed debt ceiling vote as a means to push through Medicare reforms. Not eve...

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Obama, Boehner Tell Different Stories On Budget Negotiations

AP | By DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.01.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A bullish President Barack Obama said Friday that compromise is close with Republicans on $33 billion in budget cuts, and he warned that...

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Local Demands Testing Spending Issue Rhetoric

AP | BEN EVANS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — First-term Republican Rep. Tim Scott of Charleston, S.C., says he's looking for "any way in the world" to get federal money to expa...

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Incoming African American Tea Party Favorite Will Not Join Congressional Black Caucus

Politics Daily | December 01,| 11:03 AM | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep.-elect Tim Scott, one of two black Republicans elected to the House in November, has decided not to join the all-Democratic Congressional Black Ca...

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Deep South Elect First Black Republican Congressman Since Reconstruction

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina voters on Tuesday elected the first black Republican to Congress from the Deep South since Reconstructio...

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Tim Scott, Incoming GOP Congressman, Warns Boehner Not To Cave On Raising Debt Ceiling

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Incoming GOP Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) recently warned John Boehner that a move to raise the nation's quickly approaching debt ceiling without first att...

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Newly-Elected Black GOP Congressmen Chart Different Courses On The Issue Of Race

The Hill | Michael O'Brien | Posted 05.25.2011

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Congress's two incoming black Republican members have charted different courses so far on the issue of race -- though neither seems entirely intereste...

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Congressional Black Caucus Extends Membership Offer To Black Republicans

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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GOP Congressmen-elect Allen West (Fla.) and Tim Scott (S.C.), the party's first black House members since Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma retired in 2003,...

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2 Sarah Palin-Endorsed Tea Partiers Given Plum House Positions

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — To help lead the GOP's transition to power in the House, Republicans on Monday tapped two newly elected congressmen who drew tea pa...

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Takeover Takeaways

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Congressional Republicans who think the outcome of this election is a mandate for their view of governance are overstating the case and run the risk of the kind of overreach some say the hurt the Democrats.

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South Carolina Republican Primaries: Whiff Of Change Or Just Good Timing?

AP | SEANNA ADCOX and BRUCE SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHARLESTON, S.C. – South Carolina voters have nominated an Indian-American woman for governor and a black state lawmaker for Congress – de...

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Tim Scott Beats Paul Thurmond In South Carolina GOP Congressional Primary

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Voters in South Carolina nominated a black Republican lawmaker for an open congressional seat Tuesday, rejecting a renowned political name and potenti...

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Tim Scott, Black Congressional Candidate, Looking Likely To Beat Strom Thurmond's Son In South Carolina GOP Primary

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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62 years ago, then-South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond ran for President on a segregationist "Dixiecrat" platform. During his campaign, he made a s...

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Tea Party Appears Split In Utah GOP Senate Primary

AP | LIZ SIDOTI and JIM DAVENPORT | Posted 05.25.2011

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — In a break from the state's racist legacy, South Carolina Republicans overwhelmingly chose Nikki Haley, an Indian-American woma...

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