U.S. Republican Party

U.S. Republican Party
  • CYPRESS, TX - FEBRUARY 7: Texas Gov. Rick Perry comments during a campaign rally for February 7, 2010 in Cypress, Texas. Perry is running against Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Debra Medina for the Republican gubernatorial candidacy.

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  • Construction group lobbies for Long Island projects

    One of the industries hardest hit on Long Island by this wrenching recession is construction, where unemployment is now at about 35 percent, and some 11,100 jobs have been lost in the last year alone.The state of the industry on the Island was one of |more

  • Zoning plan expected to force Lighthouse to scale down

    ...and champion of the Lighthouse project, signed a new sublease with Wang before he left office in December, Mangano, a Republican , blasted the move.One source familiar with the situation said Mangano was still angry about the way the sublease, which gives... |more

  • Palin says 'absurd' not to consider presidential bid

    ...that she could see Russia from some island in the Bering Sea."Palin is scheduled to campaign for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican facing a primary challenge from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. She has been employed as a contributor at Fox News, owned by New... |more

  • Palin critiques Obama during Tea Party keynote speech

    NASHVILLE - The burgeoning tea party movement should remain leaderless and decentralized, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said yesterday, calling the effort "bigger than any king or queen of the tea party.""Put your faith in |more

  • Assembly candidates divided on third track project

    ...in a district with 35,158 registered Republicans and 27,109 enrolled Democrats. There are also 20,805 voters who do not state a party preference, and Meng he said thinks those voters might be enough to swing the election in his favor.A map of the district... |more

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  • Senate Republicans Block Obama Labor Board Pick

    Senate Republicans have succeeded in blocking President Barack Obama's choice of a union lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board. The 52-33 vote to move forward with the nomination of Craig Becker fell short of the 60 needed to overcome a GOP |more

  • Obama's healthcare summit sets stage for end-game

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's call for a healthcare summit including both his fellow Democrats and Republicans sets the stage for a final push to get stalled legislation through Congress, but skeptical Republicans said on Monday the |more

  • Rhetoric threatens Obama's health care offer to GOP

    ...Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Hoyer, to discuss the 2010 legislative agenda. Republicans say they were notified by the White House on Sunday, a couple of hours before a CBS News interview in which Obama floated the... |more

  • Obama meets with GOP, says can spur job growth

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Appealing for bipartisanship in a town where it's hard to find, President Barack Obama sat down with Democrats and Republicans Tuesday to spur cooperation on job creation, deficit reduction and health care overhaul. He promised to do |more

  • GOP wary of pitfalls in Obama's health care summit

    ...appearing insincere if he convenes the bipartisan gathering without showing greater willingness to shelve or greatly change his party's proposals. It's a gamble Democrats appear willing to take. "I think the greatest risk for Democrats is passing nothing,"... |more

About U.S. Republican Party

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP. Founded in Jackson, Michigan, in 1854 by anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers, the Republican Party quickly surpassed the Whig Party as the principal opposition to the Democratic Party. It first came to power in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency and presided over the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Today, the party supports a conservative and/or center-right platform, with further foundations in supply-side fiscal policies and social conservatism.

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