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GOP Cash Woes Threaten House Bids

Politico | BEN SMITH & JOSH KRAUSHAAR | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics

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With the Republican Party on the cusp of major gains in the House next year and with the dream of retaking the House appearing to be a real, if improb...

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Pete Sessions Spokesman Defends 'I Love You' Email To Allen Stanford

Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics

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The Miami Herald reported on Sunday that Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.) once penned a love note of sorts to jailed financier Allen Stanford. "I love yo...

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Pete Sessions To Allen Stanford: 'I Love You'

Miami Herald | By MICHAEL SALLAH and ROB BARRY | Posted 12.27.2009 | Politics

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Just hours after federal agents charged banker Allen Stanford with fleecing investors of $7 billion, the disgraced financier received a message from o...

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Pete Sessions Blasted By Dems For Comparing Women To Smokers

POLITICO | Glenn Thrush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), the head of the Republicans campaign committee, caused a stir at last night's Rules Committee meeting when he suggested t...

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GOP Leadership Worried About Damage To Party's Reputation From Base

POLITICO | Glenn Thrush | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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"I would point out that the greatest anxiety about the president's policies tends to come from independents," he said. Long before the tea parties or...

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Earmark Critic Pete Sessions Steered Money To Aide, Blimp

Politico | JOHN BRESNAHAN | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Pete Sessions -- the chief of the Republicans' campaign arm in the House -- says on his website that earmarks have become "a symbol of a broken W...

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Sessions Worked Behind Scenes To Get Palin Reinvited To GOP Fundraiser

The Plum Line | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

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In another sign of the sway that Sarah Palin and her supporters in Palin Nation hold over the GOP, NRCC chief Pete Sessions is working behind the scen...

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.16.2009 | Home

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Next week, Adam and Kris duke it out to see who will be the next American Idol. This week, Republicans duked it out to see who would be the next American Idiot. Sen. Jeff Sessions argued for keeping Guantanamo open by pointing to the "tropical breezes blowing through" the prison. Rep. Pete Sessions claimed President Obama is intentionally driving up unemployment and diminishing stock prices to "inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system." And Kim Hendren, a Republican Senate candidate from Arkansas, referred to Chuck Schumer at a campaign event as "that Jew," then dug himself deeper: "I was attempting to explain that unlike Sen. Schumer, I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on The Andy Griffith Show." I guessed he missed the episode about Goober's bar mitzvah. The Grand Oy Party.

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Ryan Grim

Pete Sessions: Obama Hurting Economy To Consolidate Power

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Pete Sessions, head of the House Republican committee tasked with electing more GOP members, has a unique theory as to why unemployment continues...

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Pete Sessions, Republican Campaign Chief, Held Fundraiser At Risque Vegas Nightclub

The Washington Post | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

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Democrats are waving the hypocrisy flag on Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the fundraiser in chief for House Republicans whose leadership role is to rec...

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Dems Target 12 Republicans On Stimulus

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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CNN reports that a dozen House Republicans are targeted in a new House Democratic political campaign that criticizes them for opposing the $787 billio...

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McCain Took $28K From Fraud Suspect R. Allen Stanford

Opensecrets | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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Money manager Robert Allen Stanford now has two things in common with embattled investment manager Bernard Madoff: both have come under scrutiny for a...

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Those Republicans Know How to Throw a Party

Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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Rick Horowitz

Is it curious that the Republicans suddenly remembered that they're against government spending at the same moment that a guy with a "D" after his name moved into the White House?

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Obama to Speak Monday Night on Stimulus While Rep. Pete Sessions Says Republicans Are the New Taliban

John Amato | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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John Amato

If the media hadn't acted so irresponsibly the past two weeks and President Obama hadn't tried to be so bipartisan, he might not have had to take to the airwaves, but that's not the case anymore.

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Jason Linkins

GOP Lawmaker Describes Party's Strategy As Talibanesque

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

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Ah, so, GOP Representative Pete Sessions is a visionary, or something. He's got a clear idea of how House Republicans are going to operate in this ne...

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GOP Rep: We Might Need A Taliban-Like "Insurgency"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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In an interview with National Journal's Hotline, Republican Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas suggested his party could follow the model of the Taliban in i...

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Rachel Weiner

Sessions' Burlesque Club Fundraiser: Nothing To See Here

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) says the Las Vegas venue where he held a fundraiser was absolutely not a strip club: It is what I would call a burlesque s...

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