Jan 19 GOP divided over using budget process to derail Obamacare By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Republicans running Congress have promised to use every weapon in their arsenal to take down President Barack Obama's health care law. Continue reading
Sep 26 Watch Tea party Senate challenge in Mississippi shows rift in the GOP By PBS News Hour The intense primary battle between veteran Republican Sen. Thad Cochran and state senator Chris McDaniel in Mississippi shows that the rift between the populist tea party and the establishment wing of the GOP is not yet healed. And the general… Continue watching
Aug 05 Kansas GOP Sen. Roberts faces tea party challenge By Donna Cassata, Associated Press Establishment conservatives look to beat down the latest tea party upstart as three-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts faces a challenge from Milton Wolf in Tuesday's primary in Kansas, one of four states kicking off a busy month of contests to… Continue reading
Jul 14 Five lessons from this election season so far By Domenico Montanaro, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Today in the Morning Line: The establishment has had a good season … Incumbents are tough to beat … Democrats’ chances could rest with their Marks … Money can’t buy you tea party love … and ObamaCare fades as… Continue reading
Jun 27 Watch Shields and Ponnuru on House GOP vs. Obama, missing IRS emails By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s top news, including how incumbents held their ground against the tea party in last Tuesday’s primaries, Rep. John Boehner’s threat to sue President… Continue watching
Jun 27 Questions surround death of tea party official By Jeff Amy, Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press RIDGELAND, Miss. — A tea party official charged with conspiring to take photos of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's wife inside a nursing home apparently committed suicide Friday, police said, days after Cochran won a nasty Republican primary. Continue reading
Jun 25 Watch After Cantor’s upset, incumbents hold their ground in close primary races By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 25 Establishment order restored in midterm elections By Domenico Montanaro, Terence Burlij, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Today in the Morning Line: Cochran, the new “Comeback Kid” Cantor loss looks more like an aberration than a trend Hillary Clinton talks with NewsHour’s Gwen Ifill Cochran survives runoff against McDaniel: They say lightning never strikes the same… Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch Missing IRS emails prompt cover-up allegations from Republican lawmakers By PBS News Hour A political fight over the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service escalated when the IRS said it had lost thousands of emails when a former official’s computer crashed. Jeffrey Brown talks to Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., and… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch After Cantor’s loss, incumbents brace for primary challenges By Ariel Min Voters in seven states will head to the polls Tuesday for another set of primary elections. Since House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s loss in Virginia’s Republican primary two weeks ago, incumbents all over the country are scrambling to secure victories. Continue watching