Luis Fortuño, governor of Puerto Rico, was asked by the Examiner whether he will withdraw his endorsement of Florida Governor Charlie Crist if he leaves the GOP to run for Senate.
His answer? “Definitely.”
Crist is widely expected to announce an independent bid for Senate later today.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., just put out a statement saying he has received “assurances” that changes will be made to the Democrats’ financial regulatory reform bill that will ensure that it does not perpetuate big bank bailouts.
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When Senate leaders went to the White House Wednesday morning to discuss the Supreme Court opening, the meeting was attended by President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and ranking member Patrick Leahy and Jeff Sessions, and Senate majority and minority leaders Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell.
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Republican lawmakers are denying a charge made by top White House counterterrorism official John Brennan that they were briefed about -- and did not object to -- the decision to offer full American constitutional rights to accused Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
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UPDATE: All GOP officials lawmakers deny Brennan's charge; see details here.
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If national GOP leaders ever could grasp what Scott Ott is saying in his "The Contradiction of being a Republcan" post, they could inspire a national grassroots movement the likes of which hasn't been seen in this country for decades. Here's just a taste of a thoughtful and concise take on the attitude needed from top to bottom:
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Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken won his seat by 312 votes out of nearly 3 million cast, which means that if just 157 Franken voters had chosen Republican Norm Coleman instead, Franken would not be in the Senate.
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Some commentators have accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of caving to Democratic pressure by agreeing to hold the vote on final passage of the national health care bill on Christmas Eve morning as opposed to the originally-planned 7 p.m. "Mitch McConnell Surrenders," reads one blog headline.
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A federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has been filed by a citizens activist group seeking the rest of the story behind the recent gag order issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services against health insurance companies to prevent them from providing customers with information about Obamacare.
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That much-ballyhooed Baucus version of Obamacare is irrelevant, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will write the real Senate version of Obamacare and he will do it in secret.
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