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Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, said that Mr. Obama had initiated a constitutional crisis by assuming the powers of "a monarch." (Associated Press)

Obama immigration executive action to haunt Democrats, Republicans warn

Citing the precedent being set by President Obama, Democrats should brace themselves for new tax cuts, a rollback of environmental regulations and a raft of other unilateral steps bestowed through executive action as soon as the next Republican president takes the oath of office, GOP lawmakers warn.

November 20, 2014
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Associated Press) **FILE**

GOP will turn ‘nuclear option’ to its advantage

Under pressure from a large faction of rank-and-file members, Senate Republican leaders are warming to the idea of keeping the rule change known as the "nuclear option" that Democrats imposed to end filibusters of nominations.

November 19, 2014
Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz won a hotly contested race Tuesday to become the next chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Jason Chaffetz voted chairman of House Oversight Committee

Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz won a hotly contested race Tuesday to become the next chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, putting him in charge of the panel that has doggedly pursued the Obama administration on issues ranging from the IRS targeting scandal to the Fast and Furious gun-walking operation.

November 18, 2014
In this Oct. 20, 2014, file photo, Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan answers questions during an interview with The Associated Press in Baltimore. Gov.-elect Hogan says he remains committed to pursuing tax relief in his first year as governor, despite a projected budget shortfall of more than a half a billion dollars. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Larry Hogan, Maryland governor-elect, includes Democrats on transition team

Preparing to launch a Republican administration in deep-blue Maryland, Gov.-elect Larry Hogan on Monday introduced a transition team that included some familiar Democratic faces as he moved to avoid some of the partisan confrontations that stymied the state's last Republican governor.

November 17, 2014
Sen. Mary L. Landrieu has called for a vote on Keystone XL. (Associated Press)

Senate Democrats to tackle Keystone, NSA snooping in lame-duck session

With just a few weeks left in power, Senate Democrats want to clear the decks of spending bills and force votes on dozens of President Obama's judicial nominations, but a brewing fight over the Keystone XL oil pipeline already has split Democrats and proved a major distraction.

November 12, 2014
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, of California, talks as she and Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee receive updates of Election Eay information from Greg Jackson, field director of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Democrats press for minimum wage hike after ballot successes

The success of ballot measures that raised the minimum wage in four red-leaning states provided one of the only bright spots for Democrats in an otherwise bleak midterm election and vaulted the issue to top of the agenda for President Obama and his beleaguered party.

November 9, 2014
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner casts his vote at VOA Park in West Chester, Ohio, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cara Owsley)

House Republicans expand majority to near-historic size

The wave of GOP victories in elections Tuesday expanded the Republican majority in the House to near-record levels, sweeping out longtime Democratic incumbents in solid blue Northeast states and from some of the party's last vestiges in the South.

November 5, 2014
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., walks to his office after arriving on Capitol Hill on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 in Washington. The federal government remains partially shut down and faces a first-ever default between Oct. 17 and the end of the month. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Election beating yet to turn Senate Democrats against Harry Reid

Despite devastating loses, Senate Democrats showed little sign of ditching the leadership team that led them to an Election Night disaster. Sen. Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who will lose his job as majority leader in the new GOP-run Senate, appeared ready to run for minority leader.

November 4, 2014
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made his third trip to Maryland to support fellow Republican Larry Hogan (left), who is hoping to become only the second GOP governor to lead Maryland since 1969. Mr. Christie, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, will make his fourth trip to Maryland on Sunday. (Associated Press)

Brown, Hogan neck and neck heading into Maryland election

Democrat Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown and Republican Larry Hogan called in the big guns for the final week of a tight race for governor in Maryland, with national organizations and top political figures joining an election battle that will decide whether the Democratic Party keeps its lock on power in the state.

October 29, 2014
President Barack Obama and Maryland Gubernatorial Democrat candidate Lt. Governor Anthony Brown campaign at an Early Vote Rally at Dr. Henry Wise High School in Upper Marlboro, Md., Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014. This is Obama's first major campaign appearances of the midterm elections. Brown lost to Republican Larry Hogan in a shocker on election night (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Democrats use race-baiting fliers to spur black vote

The spate of campaign fliers that use images of lynchings, Jim Crow laws and the recent racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, to urge blacks to vote in next week's election somehow failed to grab the attention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

October 29, 2014