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Cantor Facing Criticism On His Right Flank

The Hill | Posted 05.14.2012

The bipartisan efforts of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on a range of issues have attracted grumblings from the right....

Cantor Made Unusual Donation

Roll Call | John Stanton | Posted 04.06.2012

In the waning days of a bruising primary between Illinois GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Don Manzullo, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor donated $25,000...

Zach Carter

Obama's New JOBS Act Friends Leave Longtime Democratic Ally Furious

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 04.05.2012

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will sign the JOBS Act into law Thursday, clinching a rare and hard-fought bipartisan victory for his presidency....

Luke Johnson

Congress Nears Deal On Payroll Tax Cut, Unemployment Extension

HuffingtonPost.com | Luke Johnson | Posted 02.14.2012

WASHINGTON -- Congress was close to a deal to extend a popular payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, according to several reports. The pending...

Congress Taking Action On Questionable Practice

Posted 01.30.2012

By LARRY MARGASAK, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Aware that most Americans would like to dump them all, members of Congress hope to regain so...

Man Who Threatened Eric Cantor Faces Consequences

Posted 12.21.2011

NASHVILLE, Tenn (Tim Ghianni, Reuters) - A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to making threatening drunken profanity-laced telephone calls to U.S. ...

Republicans Reveal Tax Plan

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 01.17.2012

WASHINGTON — Millions of taxpayers who take advantage of deductions for mortgage interest, charitable donations and state and local taxes would ...

Republican Hopefuls Assault GOP Proposal

AP | DAVID ESPO and ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 01.15.2012

WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner publicly blessed a Republican deficit-reduction plan Tuesday that would raise $300 billion in additional...

GOP Leader's Speech Rocked By Protesters

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.10.2012

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was interrupted by protesters Thursday at a speech at Rice University in Houston. "Eric Cantor is not wel...

Republicans Flood The House With God-Related Measures

Roll Call | John Stanton | Posted 01.01.2012

Republicans may be trying to focus their messaging on jobs and the economy -- and hammering President Barack Obama for campaigning -- but they still h...

House Republicans Defend Reduced Schedule

AP | By JIM ABRAMS | Posted 12.27.2011

WASHINGTON -- The House will be in session less than one out of every three days next year, a slight decline from past years. House Republicans say th...

Eric Cantor's America

New York Magazine | Jason Zengerle | Posted 12.03.2011

The House majority leader is trying to stop the U.S. government in its tracks. And so far, he's doing a pretty effective job....

12 Republican Superheroes! (Doug's Dozen VIDEO)

Doug Molitor | Posted 11.08.2011

Doug Molitor

It came at the end of a summer with too many superhero movies and too many Republicans debating each other.

Elise Foley

Eric Cantor: Congress Will Pass Continuing Resolution To Avoid Government Shutdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.07.2011

WASHINGTON -- Congress will take up a continuing resolution to fund the government on the week of Sept. 19, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) ...

Cantor's Plan Won't Create Jobs But Will Endanger Health

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 10.31.2011

Heather Taylor-Miesle

On Monday, Cantor sent a memo to his GOP colleagues about what he called his "jobs agenda." But the memo wasn't about jobs, it was a list of environmental regulations the Tea Party has been targeting all year.

Associated Press: America Is Dead -- Funeral Plans Under Debate

Mark Steinberg | Posted 10.08.2011

Mark Steinberg

It was announced today that the United States of America, also known as the U.S., U.S.A. and the U.S. of A., died during the last week of August 2011 ...

On the Compromiser-in-Chief and Elizabeth Drew's Article

Ari Melber | Posted 09.23.2011

Ari Melber

By fully caving on this stand-off, where the White House is backed by the general public and large swaths of the GOP, Obama would not only fail to impress independent voters, he'd ensure a drubbing on a series of future fights.

Paying Pitts to Pay Pakistan to Pay Pitts -- and Raise the Deficit

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 09.20.2011

Leon T. Hadar

A few days after he had received $2,000 campaign contribution from the Pakistani lobbyists, Rep. Joe Pitts introduced a resolution in 2004 which, reflecting Islamabad's stance, called for a more activist U.S. role in resolving the dispute over Kashmir.

Paul Krugman: The Republican Party Has 'Gone Insane'

The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 09.14.2011

There aren’t many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default. But there has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relie...

GOP Leader Emerges Real Player And Pain In Debt Talks

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 09.13.2011

WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has become both a key player and big pain to more seasoned negotiators in the White House talks o...

GOP Leader's Role In Debt Ceiling Talks Sparks Criticism

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.13.2011

WASHINGTON -- Testy lawmakers pointed fingers at one another and President Barack Obama on Thursday as negotiations over raising the national debt lim...

Breathtaking Republican Hypocrisy on Medicare

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2011

Chris Weigant

To be sure, Republicans have always been against the concept of Medicare. But hypocrisy entered into the discourse last year, when they attempted to position themselves as the ones who were going to "save Medicare."

Sam Stein

GOP Leadership: White House Has Rejected Emergency One-Week Funding Measure

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.05.2011

WASHINGTON -- Congressional GOP leaders said on Tuesday that the Obama administration has informed them that it will oppose a last-ditch stopgap fundi...

The Economist: 'Deficit Hawkery As Farce'

The Economist | M.S. | Posted 05.25.2011

I'M HAVING trouble writing about the GOP effort to reach a compromise over whether to cut $100 billion out of the 2011 budget, or just $50-60 billion....

Nancy Pelosi Declines Eric Cantor's State Of The Union Proposal

Posted 05.25.2011

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has begged off sitting with Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) at Tuesday night's State of the Union Ad...