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GOP nixes vote on border and abortion bills

Facing a rebellion in their own ranks, House Republican leaders scrapped their plans to vote this week on their first border security bill of the new Congress, blaming the weather for the delay but buying themselves time to try to stiffen the bill and make it more palatable to conservatives.

January 26, 2015
Attorney General Eric Holder pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP senators confront Eric Holder on U.S. fugitives in Cuba

A group of Senate Republicans pressed Attorney General Eric H. Holder on Friday to explain the administration's policy for U.S. fugitives in Cuba, including a convicted cop killer, following President Obama's announced normalization of relations with the communist island nation.

January 23, 2015
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., 75, talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, for the first time since he suffered an eye injury and broken ribs on New Year's Day, when a piece of exercise equipment he was using broke and sent him smashing into cabinets at his new home. Reid sais his re-election bid in 2016 is on track even though he's been sidelined by an exercise accident. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Harry Reid returns to Capitol after freak accident

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid returned Thursday to the Capitol with his face bruised and bandaged after a freak exercise accident that crushed his eye socket, vowing to soon return to a full work schedule and run for re-election in two years.

January 22, 2015
"I'm the guy born with the glass half full, and I believe hope springs eternal," said House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican. "The American people want us to find a way to address their concerns. That was the big message out of the election. You hear it from our members on both sides of the Capitol. I'm hopeful the president heard the same message." (Associated Press)

Republicans doubt Obama willing to negotiate, brace for bitter confrontations

House and Senate Republicans came away from their joint retreat in Hershey, Pennsylvania, this weekend bracing for bitter confrontations with President Obama and skeptical that the president is willing to make deals even on the handful of policies where the executive and legislative branches could find agreement.

January 18, 2015
Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican and an outspoken critic of Mr. Obama's foreign policy, said additional sanctions would reinforce rather than undermine the U.S. bargaining position with Iran. (Associated Press)

Republican senators vow more Iran sanctions despite Obama warnings

Republican senators vowed Sunday to pursue additional sanctions against Iran, brushing off unusually blunt and dire warnings from President Obama that any more penalties for Tehran would threaten to scuttle nuclear talks and possibly lead to war.

January 18, 2015
FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2014, file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Michael R. Hoyt, a resident of Cincinnati and bartender with a history of psychiatric illness, was indicted last week on a charge of threatening to murder Boehner, possibly by poisoning his drink, according to records made available Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

John Boehner: Patriot Act snooping helped stop Capitol bomb plot

House Speaker John A. Boehner said Thursday that the National Security Agency's snooping powers helped stop a plot to attack the Capitol and that his colleagues need to keep that in mind as they debate whether to renew the law that allows the government to collect bulk information from its citizens.

January 15, 2015
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, joined by Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., heads to a meeting of House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. Ryan, the party's last vice presidential nominee, said this week that he will not seek the presidency in 2016 and will work to shape GOP policy as head of the powerful Ways and Means panel. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Paul Ryan kills gas tax idea

Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, ruled out Thursday the possibility of the House taking up a bill to raise the gasoline tax to pay for highway projects, and idea that has been floated by Senate Republicans.

January 15, 2015
In this Nov. 12, 2014, file photo, then-Sen.-elect Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republican officials have tapped newly elected Ernst to deliver the party's formal response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Joni Ernst to deliver GOP response to State of the Union

Republican congressional leaders announced Thursday that they had picked one of their newly elected members, Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, to deliver the party's response to President Obama's State of the Union address next week.

January 15, 2015
"We do not take this action lightly, but there is simply no alternative," House Speaker John A. Boehner said from the well of the House. "This is not a dispute between parties, or even branches of government. The president's overreach is an affront to the rule of law and the Constitution itself." (Associated Press)

House votes to cancel Obama amnesties; bill faces veto threat

Brushing aside Democrats' warnings of permanent political doom, House Republicans voted Thursday to cancel President Obama's deportation amnesties, casting it as an effort to undo a runaway White House untethered either to the Constitution or its own words and promises.

January 14, 2015