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  • **FILE** Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican (Associated Press)

    Sen. Lindsey Graham: GOP facing 'demographic death spiral'

    Sen. Lindsey Graham said that the Republican Party needed to pass more pro-immigrant policies — and quickly, because the GOP was facing a "demographic death spiral."


  • Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes was among those awarded Bradley Prizes from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation on Wednesday in the District. (Associated Press)

    Inside the Beltway: Unifying conservatives by 2014

    Organizers behind the bodacious "Road to Majority" conference are determined to wrangle conservatives onto the same page as the 2014 midterm elections loom. The event, virtually ignored so far by the mainstream press, begins Thursday at a hotel just three blocks from the White House.


  • Mitt Romney, here with Jay Leno, hosts "Experts and Enthusiasts" with politicians, tycoons, investors and fancy "thought leaders."
(Mitt Romney photograph)

    Inside the Beltway: Romney's reinvention

    Mitt Romney has returned to public radar: He's no longer the docile guy meandering around the suburbs or grocery shopping in a post-campaign world. He's granting strategic interviews and he's got aggressive notions about the Republican Party, seeking to pull it from a wallow of social issues and combative identity crisis and into a business-minded mode.


  • ** FILE ** Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican

    Rep. Paul Ryan: 'Concept' of Internet tax is solid

    Rep. Paul Ryan said that an Internet tax isn't a bad idea but that the devil was in the details.


  • ** FILE ** Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican

    Rep. Paul Ryan softens, now supports gay adoptions

    Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, said in a town-hall discussion earlier this week that he still opposes gay marriage but that he's softened on the right of same-sex partners to adopt.


  • ** FILE ** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks with reporters following a Democratic strategy session at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Democrats try to shift budget onus to GOP

    After several years of complaining that Congress didn't have a budget, Republicans are now the ones holding up the 2014 budget process.


  • Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 16, 2013, before the House Budget Committee hearing on President Obama's fiscal 2014 federal budget. (Associated Press)

    Spending cuts alone won't save economy, Treasury head says

    Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned Congress on Tuesday against taking drastic austerity measures to lower the nation's ballooning debt, saying the federal government also must spend money on job growth-related programs for the economy to fully recover.


  • President Obama, accompanied by acting Budget Director Jeffrey Zients, speaks April 10, 2013, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington to discuss his proposed fiscal 2014 federal budget. (Associated Press)

    GOP says Obama's budget blows chance of 'grand bargain'

    Top congressional Republicans declared President Obama's tax-laden budget for fiscal 2014 dead on arrival Wednesday, saying its failure to cut deficits destroys any hope of a "grand bargain" to fix the federal government's fiscal crisis


  • ** FILE ** Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican.

    Rep. Paul Ryan: President Obama 'creaking the door open' on entitlements

    He's skeptical about whether President Obama's budget truly will tackle runaway spending, but the House Republicans' budget point man believes the White House has taken a small step forward on the sticky issue of Social Security.


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