Republicans have pro-growth ideas - tax reform, health care, reining in red tape.
Congressman Kevin Brady appeared on C-SPAN #39;s Newsmakers with host Susan Swain and reporters Tim Alberta with National Journal and Erik Wasson with The Hill. ...
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CPAC: Which Republicans should run in 2016?
Attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., share which possible candidates th.
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Patrick the Pit Bull Inducted into NJVMA Animal Hall of Fame
Patrick the Pit Bull, the inspiration for Patrick #39;s Law sponsored by Senator Tom Kean (R-Union, Somerset, Morris), was inducted into the New Jersey Veterinar...
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The Republican Party, also commonly called the GOP (for "Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854, it dominated politics nationally for most of the period from 1860 to 1932. There have been 18 Republican presidents, the first being Abraham Lincoln, serving from 1861 to 1865, and the most recent being George W. Bush, serving from 2001 to 2009. The most recent Republican presidential nominee was former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
The party's platform is generally based upon American conservatism,[7][8][9] in contrast to the Democratic Party, whose members endorse more liberal policies. American conservatism of the Republican Party is not wholly based upon rejection of the political ideology of liberalism; some principles of American conservatism are based on classical liberalism.[10] Rather, the Republican Party's conservatism is largely based upon its support of classical principles against the social liberalism of the Democratic Party that is considered American liberalism in contemporary American political discourse.[10]
In the 113th Congress, elected in 2012, the Republican Party holds a majority of seats in the United States House of Representatives and a minority of seats in the United States Senate. The party holds the majority of governorships as well as the majority of state legislatures.
Founded in the Northern states in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers, the Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant Southern Democratic Party and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party. The main cause was opposition to the KansasNebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil. The first public meeting where the name "Republican" was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20, 1854 in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin.[11]
The first official party convention was held on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Michigan. By 1858, the Republicans dominated nearly all Northern states. The Republican Party first came to power in 1860 with the election of Lincoln to the Presidency and Republicans in control of Congress and again, the Northern states. It oversaw the saving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 18611877.[12]
The Republicans' initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest. With the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of JohnC. Fremont in the 1856 Presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states.
Early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan "free labor, free land, free men", which had been coined by SalmonP. Chase, a Senator from Ohio (and future Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the United States).[13] "Free labor" referred to the Republican opposition to slave labor and belief in independent artisans and businessmen. "Free land" referred to Republican opposition to plantation system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land, leaving the yeoman independent farmers the leftovers. The Party strived to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power and the expansion of freedom.[14]
Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency. The party took on the mission of saving the Union and destroying slavery during the American Civil War and over Reconstruction. In the election of 1864, it united with War Democrats to nominate Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket.
The party's success created factionalism within the party in the 1870s. Those who felt that Reconstruction had been accomplished and was continued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President Ulysses S. Grant ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and the spoils system; the Half-Breeds pushed for reform of the civil service.
The GOP supported business generally, hard money (i.e.,the gold standard), high tariffs to promote economic growth, high wages and high profits, generous pensions for Union veterans, and (after1893) the annexation of Hawaii. The Republicans supported the pietistic Protestants who demanded Prohibition. As the northern post-bellum economy boomed with heavy and light industry, railroads, mines, fast-growing cities and prosperous agriculture, the Republicans took credit and promoted policies to sustain the fast growth.
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GOP Rep. Paul Ryan, by all indications, really does want to see immigration reform happen.Perhapshe sees it as crucial to repairing the partys Latino problem before the 2016 presidential race (which he may or may not enter). Or perhaps his reputed wonky side sees thestatus quoas untenable. Either way he does seem to want to get to Yes.
And despite what youve heard about GOP leaders killing reform for the year, Ryan insisted in an interview with a local Wisconsin newspaper that Republicans continue to debate the issue among themselves as we speak. But, he says, we dont have the votes right now.
The longer we delay, the worse these [immigration] problems become, Ryan said, but congressional forces on the Right and the Left are holding things up.
Right now, were working hard to find where that consensus lies, he said.
If its true that House Republicans are still trying to find some kind of consensus solution on the 11 million that they can support which is the necessary first step towards anything happening thats genuinely good news. But its obvious nothing is moving forward anytime soon. As Ryan suggests, theres no consensus behind any solution to the problem Ryan himself says must be solved.
But dont let it be said Republicans arent acting on immigration at all.
TodayHouse Republicans aredebating two measuresthat arepartly related to immigration but neither, of course, would do anything about the 11 million. Instead, both appear to be partly designed to prevent #Obummer from throwing open the borders, or pursuing amnesty, or whatever other scheme hes hatching. (I propose Obamnesty as shorthand.)
One of the measures is called the Faithful Execution of the Law Act, and it would require all federal officials who implement policy to report to Congress on any reason for non-enforcement. The other is called the ENFORCE the Law Act, which would expedite lawsuits against the Executive Branch for failing to execute the laws. The release describing the two measures cites Obamas willingness to flout immigration laws as a rationale.
With Obama under pressure touse executiveauthorityto ease deportations, House Republicansdont want Obama tomove unilaterally on immigration.As todaysmaneuvers show, theyllact on their distrust of Obama. But they wont allow Congress to act to solve the underlying immigration problem. Because they dont trust Obama.
Meanwhile, yesterdaysGOP winin Floridas 13th district whichis more evidence thatObamacare will deliver a glorious Republican triumph this fall, and thatthe current political dynamic must not bescrambled by any policy-making or problem-solving makes any action on immigration less likely still. Even if Paul Ryan actually does want it.
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