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A super PAC backing House Republicans has committed to spending $ 900,000 against Democrat Anna Throne - Holst as she tries to unseat Rep. Lee Zeldin (R - Shirley), the group announced Tuesday.

A super PAC backing House Republicans has committed to spending $ 900,000 against Democrat Anna Throne - Holst as she tries to unseat Rep. Lee Zeldin in NY - 1.

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Cambridge Analytica was created around 2013 initially with a focus on U.S. elections, with $ 15 million in backing from billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer and a name chosen by future Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, the New York Times reported.

Flanked by conservative colleagues, Rep. Jim Jordan, R - Ohio, told reporters he could not back the Boehner proposal and said it doesn't have the votes to pass in the Republican - controlled House.

After months (well, technically, closer to a decade) of wait for an official Republican plan to replace Obamacare, the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees unleashed legislation dubbed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday that would nix the existing health law's unpopular mandate to buy insurance and pare back its far more popular expansion of Medicaid for the working poor, among other provisions.

Only one in five Americans approve of the Republican - backed health care bill that the House of Representatives passed last week, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

And House Republicans are pushing to pare - back food stamp spending even further.

Ben Carson, a former Republican presidential hopeful who dropped out of the 2016 race and backed Trump, has been offered the post of secretary of housing and urban development, Carson spokesman Armstrong Williams said.

The fundraising numbers help explain why more Republicans — particularly those facing re-election next year — aren't openly distancing themselves from a president whose approval rating hovers below 40 percent and whose White House has been wracked by public back - biting and legislative stumbles.

Republicans balked at renewing elements of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act in 2015 and the House of Representatives introduced legislation that critics say would dial back access to the program.

(Bloomberg)-- The White House is scaling back its plan to seek cuts from already - passed spending bills in the face of resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and spending panel Republicans, two GOP congressional aides briefed on the plan said Thursday.

Those votes highlighted the fervent free - market ideology that has made Hensarling, now chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, the proud leader of the drive by congressional Republicans to roll back tougher federal oversight of the financial system.

But a Republican operative with close ties to the White House pushed back against the notion that this administration needs to repair its relationship with the press.

The White House and Republican leaders in Congress are discussing ways to jointly push through an overhaul of the tax code in the remainder of 2017 that cuts taxes and allows corporations to bring back trillions of dollars in overseas earnings to the United States.

Democrats sense a growing opportunity to unseat Republicans as part of a national wave that could put the House speaker's gavel back in their party's hands.

More importantly for today's Republican leaders of the House and Senate, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, respectively, the story of how Cleveland winged himself back into office presents a cautionary tale that should dissuade their embrace of the current president's more protectionist proclivities.

The White House later said the president backed the legislation, even as some conservative Republicans balked at the size of the spending increases and the rush to pass the bill.

House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee voted to declassify the memo on Monday, giving the White House five days to either release the memo or object, which would have sent the memo back to the House for a full vote on its release.

The Tanner gang is back on television screens for the first time in 20 years, as Netflix debuted the Full House reboot Fuller House late Thursday night — and the show wasted practically no time going after Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump with a pair of jabs.

House Republicans advanced a bill to roll back longstanding «joint employer» protections for workers contracted by big companies.

Cambridge Analytica was created around 2013 initially with a focus on US elections, with $ 15 million in backing from billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer and a name chosen by future Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, the New York Times reported.

Republicans are back in control of the House of Representatives and many social conservatives are heading to the US Senate.

Liberal groups accuse Republicans in Washington of pulling a bait and switch on social issues, saying the GOP took back the House last November by campaigning on fiscal issues, turning to hot buttons like abortion only after taking office.

Once any party gains total power (like we had with the Dems before the Republican's took the House) they inevitably go too far, and then we have the culture wars to bring us back in the middle where we belong.

The Republicans used the fear, hatred and bigotry of the Tea Partiers against Obama to win the House, and this year, they will use them to try to win back the White house and the SeHouse, and this year, they will use them to try to win back the White house and the Sehouse and the Senate.

Numerous rank - and - file Democrats urged the White House not to back away from its support for the rule, while Republicans demanded a full retreat.

It's apparent that the republicans have no desire to win the White House by the people that have the parties backing, if they were to win all three branches then the circus would be over and our government would have to do something.

Republicans fighting to take back the House of Representatives have focused on seats currently held by moderate, pro-life Democrats.

Back in 2014, I noted that many House Republicans were decrying the inability of schools to sell hard - boiled eggs (banned under Smart Snacks because of their fat content) as a prime example of federal «nanny state» overreach.

In other words, House Republicans» distaste for federal interference in school food programs suited the SNA perfectly when it came to rolling back nutrition standards — but now that conservatism has gone too far for the SNA to stomach.

Ever since the School Nutrition Association (SNA) stunned child health advocates with its flip - flop on school nutrition (supporting strong standards in 2010, then urging their roll - back two years later), the organization of 55,000 school food professionals has thrown itself into the arms of House Republicans in hopes of pushing through its new agenda.

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition... [Continue reading]

That change — or any other — would kick the bill back to the Senate for a new vote — possibly during the next Congress, when Republicans will control the House.

Keep in mind that in writing this kind of editorial (and in making her White House statement on Monday), the First Lady is engaging in an unusually political discourse, in that she's specifically taking issue with Republican - backed efforts to gut the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three states.

Republicans balked at renewing elements of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act in 2015 and the House of Representatives introduced legislation that critics say would dial back access to the program.

Last night, Gibson refused to commit to backing House Minority Leader John Boehner, even though the Ohio Republican made a special trip to Saratoga last month to help the neophyte candidate raise campaign cash.

Cuomo trained his crosshairs on seven New York Republican House members over the gun issue as Trump rolled out a school - safety plan long on NRA ideas like arming teachers and short on Democratic - backed proposals like universal background checks.

Seven New York Republicans in the House of Representatives last week voted against the Republican - backed budget plan, with several citing concerns over the end to deductions.

President Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs said there's «no doubt» the Republicans could take back the House this fall.

Cuomo has vowed to unseat Republicans House members from New York who have backed the legislation, chiefly Reps. Chris Collins and John Faso.

President Trump backed the effort from Republican Senators David Perdue and Tom Cotton in a speech at the White House.

A majority of New York voters opposed the passage of the American Health Care Act, the Republican - backed measure that failed to gain enough votes for passage last week in the House of Representatives, according to a Siena College poll released on Monday.

In some cases, Slaughter's unwillingness to «back down» has lead to some eyebrow raising attacks against her Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives.

Trump declared war on the conservatives of the House Freedom Caucus, suggesting Republicans should «fight them» in the 2018 midterm elections if they do not back his agenda.

Trump insisted that he's «not backing down» on his plan to impose stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminum despite anxious warnings from House Speaker Paul Ryan and other congressional Republicans of a possible trade war.

Gerrymandering, which can be traced back to at least 1788, has resulted in 69 of 99 state legislatures and both houses in 35 states to be controlled by Republicans in a country in which both parties are pretty evenly represented, with Democrats slightly ahead.

The reason that our legislative agenda came to an abrupt halt in 2010, is because Republicans took back control of the House of Representatives.

But only two of of New York's House Republicans ended up backing Trump.

«It would be a serious mistake for House Republicans to pass a Continuing Resolution that would ensure that Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats would come back to Washington, after many of them will have likely lost their seats, for a no - holds barred lame duck session where they will be free to pass legislation that the American people will never be able to hold them responsible for,» the Texas Republican said in a statement provided to CQ Roll Call.