Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1930 politics Politics - Republican Party en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:06:39 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1930 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090704/ts_nm/us_usa_politics_palin nm/20090704/us_usa_politics_palin Reuters topstories Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:06:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090704/ts_nm/us_usa_politics_palin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090704/i/r222586353.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=w1.e2vT2RF532wL3HLx_Aw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A video frame grab shows former U.S. Republican Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announcing that she will resign this month and will not run for re-election as governor in Wasilla, Alaska, July 3, 2009. REUTERS/KTUU-TV" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Republican Senator John McCain expressed support for his former presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, on Saturday as Washington speculated about why the Alaska governor abruptly announced her resignation.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090704/ts_nm/us_usa_politics_palin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090704/i/r222586353.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=w1.e2vT2RF532wL3HLx_Aw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="A video frame grab shows former U.S. Republican Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announcing that she will resign this month and will not run for re-election as governor in Wasilla, Alaska, July 3, 2009. REUTERS/KTUU-TV" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090704/pl_nm/us_palin_mccain nm/20090704/us_palin_mccain Reuters politics Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:08:03 GMT Reuters - Republican Senator John McCain issued a statement of support for resigning Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Saturday, saying she will play a leadership role in the Republican Party and in America. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_resigning ap/20090704/us_palin_resigning AP us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:01:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_resigning"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090704/capt.2d802fd81a7b49a5bcc10ff8d94ec63a.palin_resigning_ny130.jpg?x=130&y=104&q=85&sig=u41l0uWkUZMLcM7akI7TwA--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2008 file photo, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, left, is joined by Republican presidential candidate John McCain, right, and daughter Piper at the end of her speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday, July 3, 2009 she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)" border="0" /></a>AP - Where is Sarah Palin? A day after surprising even her closest friends by announcing she would step down as Alaska governor more than a year before her term was up, the controversial hockey mom was keeping a low profile. Her spokesman, David Murrow, said Palin told him she was flying to Juneau, the state capital, for the Fourth of July weekend, but he wasn't sure what activities she planned to attend.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_resigning"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090704/capt.2d802fd81a7b49a5bcc10ff8d94ec63a.palin_resigning_ny130.jpg?x=130&y=104&q=85&sig=u41l0uWkUZMLcM7akI7TwA--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2008 file photo, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, left, is joined by Republican presidential candidate John McCain, right, and daughter Piper at the end of her speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday, July 3, 2009 she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_documents ap/20090704/us_sotomayor_documents AP politics Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:57:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_documents"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090704/capt.64c152e7546b45c5a057f8af0166ee6c.sotomayor_documents_dccd102.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=j829E.BmPdxKKMx0UNKAVQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="In this Monday, June 1, 2009 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with members of the White House Counsel's office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House Complex in Washington. A civil rights group advised by Sotomayor in the 1980's brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored highly enough, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A civil rights group on whose board Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor served filed racial bias lawsuits over employment examinations that resemble a Connecticut case in which she ruled against white firefighters, documents released by the Senate show.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_documents"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090704/capt.64c152e7546b45c5a057f8af0166ee6c.sotomayor_documents_dccd102.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=j829E.BmPdxKKMx0UNKAVQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Monday, June 1, 2009 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with members of the White House Counsel's office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House Complex in Washington. A civil rights group advised by Sotomayor in the 1980's brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored highly enough, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_su_co/sotomayor_leahy ap/20090702/sotomayor_leahy AP politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:47:18 GMT AP - The chairman of the Senate's upcoming Supreme Court hearings says Republicans told him they would have objected no matter whom President Barack Obama nominated to the high court. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090702/pl_cq_politics/politics3158243 cq/20090702/politics3158243 CQPolitics.com politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:38:19 GMT CQPolitics.com - The White House on Friday pushed back against a GOP effort to tie Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to the work of a Puerto Rican legal advocacy group. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_el_gu/us_minnesota_senate_coleman ap/20090702/us_minnesota_senate_coleman AP Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:21:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_el_gu/us_minnesota_senate_coleman"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.400104fdde1f45a699d2a6975012e4c2.minnesota_senate__mnjm107.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=miT7jwe8_yZPvtsdZKNtOw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman laughed at a question as he addressed the media Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at his St. Paul, Minn., home after the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Democrat Al Franken won the contested U.S. Senate race in Minnesota. At left is his daughter Sarah. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)" border="0" /></a>AP - The man who lost the 1998 Minnesota governor's race to pro wrestler Jesse Ventura now holds the distinction of losing his U.S. Senate seat to former "Saturday Night Live" comedian Al Franken.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_el_gu/us_minnesota_senate_coleman"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.400104fdde1f45a699d2a6975012e4c2.minnesota_senate__mnjm107.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=miT7jwe8_yZPvtsdZKNtOw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="Former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman laughed at a question as he addressed the media Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at his St. Paul, Minn., home after the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Democrat Al Franken won the contested U.S. Senate race in Minnesota. At left is his daughter Sarah. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090702/pl_cq_politics/politics3157796 cq/20090702/politics3157796 CQPolitics.com politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:02:36 GMT CQPolitics.com - Republicans say Democrat Al Franken's victory in the long-contested Minnesota Senate race opens a new line of attack against Democrats for 2010. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/pl_nm/us_newyorkstate_senate nm/20090701/us_newyorkstate_senate Reuters politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:57:02 GMT Reuters - New York senators must stay in Albany over the U.S. Independence Day holiday for extraordinary sessions, according to a decision on Wednesday by the governor, trying again to get warring lawmakers to pick a leader and finally enact bills. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_go_co/us_jewish_senators ap/20090701/us_jewish_senators AP politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:50:39 GMT AP - The defeat of incumbent Norm Coleman in the drawn-out Minnesota Senate race leaves Republicans without a Jewish senator for the first time in half a century. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_odd_dueling_logos ap/20090701/us_odd_dueling_logos AP us Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:47:29 GMT AP - O, boy. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090701/pl_cq_politics/politics3157539 cq/20090701/politics3157539 CQPolitics.com politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:22:19 GMT CQPolitics.com - Tom Reed, the mayor of the small upstate New York city of Corning, announced Wednesday that he is challenging freshman Democratic Rep. Eric Massa for the state's 29th District seat. Reed's decision to run gives Republican strategists their preferred candidate for one of their priority races in the 2010 national House campaign. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_el_se/us_minnesota_senate ap/20090630/us_minnesota_senate AP Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:45:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_el_se/us_minnesota_senate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.989b07e5f5344783a8baa2936db958b8.al_franken_mnak107.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=Af0abZhVz.UPMJXkbkZb2w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Democrat Al Franken, right, with his wife Frannie Franken smile as they meet the media at their house in MInneapolis Tuesday June 30, 2009 after the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Democrat in the Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman. (AP Photo/Andy King)" border="0" /></a>AP - Al Franken ascended Tuesday from the ranks of former "Saturday Night Live" comedians to an even more exclusive club, outlasting Republican Norm Coleman in an eight-month recount and courtroom saga to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_el_se/us_minnesota_senate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.989b07e5f5344783a8baa2936db958b8.al_franken_mnak107.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=Af0abZhVz.UPMJXkbkZb2w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Democrat Al Franken, right, with his wife Frannie Franken smile as they meet the media at their house in MInneapolis Tuesday June 30, 2009 after the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Democrat in the Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman. (AP Photo/Andy King)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_go_co/us_minnesota_senate_reid ap/20090630/us_minnesota_senate_reid AP politics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:48:00 GMT AP - Senate Democrats are urging Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to certify Democrat Al Franken's election to the Senate following the state Supreme Court's ruling that the former Saturday Night Live comedian defeated GOP incumbent Norm Coleman. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_us/us_budget_crisis_arizona ap/20090630/us_budget_crisis_arizona AP us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:27:04 GMT AP - Arizona's budget battle is going down to the wire, with an intraparty struggle between the Republican governor and the GOP-led Legislature creating the possibility of a state government shutdown starting Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_go_co/us_national_service_inspector_general ap/20090629/us_national_service_inspector_general AP politics Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:11:38 GMT AP - Two Republican senators asked Monday for a congressional hearing to look at whether President Barack Obama acted appropriately when he fired the national service agency's inspector general earlier this month. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_go_co/us_democrats_health_care ap/20090629/us_democrats_health_care AP politics Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:35:28 GMT AP - Mainstream Democrats close to Barack Obama are warning Republicans about insisting on too many changes to the president's health care overhaul, saying the Democratic-controlled Congress will move ahead without GOP input if they do. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_go_co/us_mcconnell_sotomayor ap/20090628/us_mcconnell_sotomayor AP politics Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:55:31 GMT AP - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the committee preparing for hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor needs time to review 300 boxes of records that recently turned up in connection with her work for a legal advocacy group. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_el_pr/us_gop_s_future ap/20090628/us_gop_s_future AP Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:31:16 GMT AP - A potential White House contender in 2012 staked a claim Sunday to rehabilitating the Republican Party in the wake of extramarital affairs by two leading Republicans that have damaged the GOP's family-values image. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_climate_bill ap/20090628/us_obama_climate_bill AP politics Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:38:36 GMT AP - One of President Barack Obama's top advisers says Republicans are using inaction as a political strategy.