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CONCORD, N.H. A Republican Senatorial candidate from New Hampshire has rejectedhis partys recent adoption of a pro-life platform that expressed the personhood and subsequent right to life of unborn children, and is instead declaring his support for a womans right to choose.

Scott Brown, a former Massachusetts senator who now resides in New Hampshire, is running against Democrat Jeanne Shaheen to represent the people of the state before Congress. Last weekend, the New Hampshire Republican Party adopted a platform outlining its belief inthe pre-born childs fundamental right to life and personhood under the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as its support for the Life at Conception Act.

Shaheen blasted Brown and the party for the language used in the platform, calling it disturbing.

The message from Scott Brown and his Republican Party is disturbing, alarming and clear: they believe they should make the decisions about birth control and health care for women in New Hampshire and around the country, she wrote in a statement. They are dangerously wrong, and by signing on with Tea Party extremists, theyre showing just how irresponsibly out of touch they are with the needs and rights of women.

But Brown and spokespersons for Browns office quickly distanced themselves from the partys beliefs on the right to life.

Im a pro-choice, independent Republican, Brown stated Monday before an audience at theRudman Center at the UNH School of Law.So I dont agree with that particular part of the platform, however I have always felt that we are a big tent party, we have the opportunity to agree or disagree.

Scott Brown is pro-choice and will protect a womans right to choose, Brown spokeswoman Elizabeth Guyton later reiterated to reporters.

Keith Mason of Personhood USA expressed his disappointment in Brown on Thursday, classifying Browns stance as extreme opposition to the state party platform.

Can you imagine a Democratic Senate candidate doubling down on his unqualified hostility for the Democratic Party platform on such an important issue? he asked. Theres no way the Democratic party bosses would allow it to happen. This is a clarion call for the Republican Party to stand up to poseurs in its own party who undermine principles of human rights and dignity.

Scott Brown has staked out an extreme position on abortion that contradicts the conservative values of his electorate, Mason continued. I commend the New Hampshire Republican Party for following in the steps of President Reagan by taking this principled stand on the most important human rights issue facing our nation.

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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. Republican Jeff Bell spent three decades in Washington working on policy and wrote a book promoting all aspects of social conservatism. But so far his campaign for the U.S. Senate has centered on just one issue: returning the United States to the gold standard.

It's an idea that his opponent, Democratic incumbent Cory Booker, dismisses as "defunct and debunked," which is pretty much how most economists seem to see it.

But a group of conservative thinkers pushing for the change is undaunted.

"It wouldn't be the first time that the majority of Ph.D. economists were on one side and Jeff was on the other and he turned out to be right," said John Mueller, who runs the economics and ethics program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, referring to the idea that Bell advanced in the 1970s that cutting taxes could stimulate the economy.

Under the gold standard, the value of the dollar would be fixed to a certain amount of gold.

Through much of the U.S. history, that was the case. But since 1971, the U.S. has had fiat money that is not backed by gold or anything else.

Bell and other supporters of the gold standard say it would be a way to keep prices stable. He says the current means of controlling prices near-zero interest rates from the Federal Reserve is making it hard for small businesses to get loans and expand. Bell says that's a major reason that the economy is growing slowly years after the Great Recession.

"We are in a situation of stagnation," Bell said earlier this month in a speech to a real estate conference in New Brunswick. "Why don't they let market interest rates return to our economy?"

Like other supporters of the gold standard, Bell is an acolyte of Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp, the late congressman, secretary of housing and urban development and vice presidential nominee who made the call for cutting taxes to stimulate the economy part of a national debate in the late 1970s. Bell, now 70, won the Republican nomination for a New Jersey U.S. Senate seat in 1978 largely by advocating the kind of Reagan-era tax cuts some credit with spurring the economy.

Back in 2012, IGM Forum, which surveys academic economists from U.S. institutions including Yale, the University of Chicago and Stanford, asked panelists whether they agree that the gold standard would mean more employment opportunities and price stability for average Americans. Every member who answered the question disagreed or strongly disagreed with the notion.

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Published September 29, 2014

The simmering bipartisan battle over whether the Senate will try to swiftly replace retiring Attorney General Eric Holder heated up Sunday, with a top Senate Republican saying such a move would show the desperation Democrats feel about possibly losing control next month of the upper chamber.

It does need to wait, Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, chairman of the Senates Republican Policy Committee, told Fox News Sunday." I am opposed to any successor during the lame-duck session.

Political analysts essentially give Republicans a slightly more than 50 percent chance of winning a net total of six seats on Nov. 4 to take control of the Senate. However, the GOP would not officially take over the chamber until January.

Barrasso said if the Democrat-controlled Senate appoints a President Obama nominee it will mark the first time since the Civil War that an attorney general has been appointed in a so-called lame duck session -- the period between when new senators are elected and the other party takes control of the chamber.

Though Republicans are no fans of Holder, Barrasso said any attempt by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to swiftly replace him would be the final act is his failed leadership of the chamber.

Holder, who resigned on Thursday, is the countrys first black attorney general and is considered an unflinching champion of civil rights in enforcing the nation's laws.

He led the Justice Department since the first days of Obama's presidency and is the fourth-longest serving attorney general in U.S. history.

However, he has faced strong criticism during his tenure -- at times bipartisan -- for a succession of controversies including a failed plan to try terrorism suspects in New York City, the botched gun-running probe along the Southwest border that prompted Republican calls for his resignation, and what was seen as a failure to hold Wall Street accountable for the financial system's near-meltdown.

The Republican-controlled House voted two years ago to make Holder the first sitting Cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress -- for refusing to turn over documents in the gun-running operation known as Operation Fast and Furious. The administration is still fighting in court to keep the documents confidential.

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