swamppolitics.com - 1/27/2009
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by Josh Drobnyk
Rahm Emanuel, the new White House chief of staff and former chairman of the Democratic congressional campaigns that led to the party's takeover of the House, is attempting to woo some of the GOP's moderates.
Emanuel has invited U.S. Reps. Charlie Dent, Jim Gerlach ...
swamppolitics.com - 2/2/2009
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swamppolitics.com —
by John McCormick and Dan Mihalopoulos White House
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is interested in potentially...
returning to Chicago someday to reclaim the congressional seat he held until a month ago, a candidate running to replace him said Sunday. ...
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Rahm Emanuel back to Congress?
thedailybeast.com - 1/30/2009
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thedailybeast.com —
From their shared loathing of Rahm Emanuel to
the insurgency led by the minority leader ( he...
took us by the throat ), the inside story of why not a single House Republican supported the president s stimulus package. "Rahm, you don't waste a crisis," a ...
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Sticking It to Rahm
thedailybeast.com - 1/30/2009
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thedailybeast.com —
Emanuel, working with his old boss and ally,
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, made it easy...
for the Republicans to resist. Every penny in the more than 600-page bill came from a Democratic wish list of pork that dated back to the beginning of the ...
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Sticking It to Rahm
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For Obama and Emanuel, it's take a Republican out to eat day
Top of the Ticket —
... We'll see what effect this has on their votes. And if some dissension develops among the other Republicans who didn't make the E-list this time, well, that's the price Emanuel and Obama are willing to pay. Josh Drobnyk over in the Swamp has more detail on today's soiree, which is Chicago for "guys night out." ...
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TEXAS: "Republican sources confirmed Monday that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) has hired Rick Wiley to serve as the campaign manager for her 2010 gubernatorial bid," Roll Call reports. "Wiley is a former Wisconsin GOP executive director who last ...
Gillibrand sworn in as U.S. senator —
CNN Political Ticker 1/27/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — After serving only two years in the House, former Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand was sworn in as the junior senator from New York Tuesday afternoon.
Her swearing-in concluded a seemingly chaotic selection process that drew criticism ...
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