Washington braced Tuesday for a replay of last summer’s tense battle over the burgeoning national debt as House Speaker John A. Boehner threatened again to block an increase in the federal debt ceiling without significant new cuts in spending. Read full article > >

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Chants of “shame on you” from gay rights supporters thundered through the Colorado House on Tuesday night after Republican House Speaker Frank McNulty said legislation to allow civil unions won’t get a vote.

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House Speaker John A. Boehner scolded President Obama on Sunday for politicizing issues upon which Democrats and Republicans agree, including the need to prevent a hike in interest rates on federal student loans. Read full article > >

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Time and again last year, House Republican leaders faced a nearly in­trac­table opponent: the very freshman class that propelled them into the majority with the historic 2010 midterm elections. Rebelling from the outset of the 112th Congress and later wreaking internal havoc during talks to increase the Treasury Department’s ability to borrow funds , the freshman class repeatedly created problems for House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), according to a new book. Read full article > >

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Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire Las Vegas casino mogul who has played a prime role in funding Newt Gingrich’s presidential ambitions, now thinks the former House speaker may be “at the end of his line” in the race for the GOP nod. Read full article > >

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You can tell House Speaker John A. Boehner isn’t running for president. On Tuesday morning when he was asked to respond to a comment Mitt Romney made that Russia is the United States’ number one geopolitical foe, Boehner began by advancing an increasingly unusual theory in American politics. Read full article > >

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David Plouffe, senior advisor to President Obama’s reelection campaign, fired back in unusually harsh terms Sunday in response to former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s assertion that Obama’s comments on the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin were “disgraceful.” Read full article > >

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has only won two of the 21 states that have voted so far in the 2012 Republican presidential primary process. He hasn’t finished above third in 17 of the other 19 contests. Read full article > >

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Why Newt Gingrich shouldn’t drop out

LAS VEGAS — After a likely second-place finish in the Nevada caucuses Saturday, former House speaker Newt Gingrich sought to dispel the idea that he might drop out of the Republican presidential nomination any time soon, promising a hotel ballroom filled with reporters that he will fight on to the convention in the summer. Read full article > >

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Gingrich vows to fight on to the convention

ORLANDO — Is a third resurrection possible for Newt Gingrich? The former House speaker, who has charted the most topsy-turvy course of any of the up-again-down-again candidates during this presidential election cycle, insisted Tuesday night that he would revive his campaign once more. Read full article > >

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Gingrich: Nomination will go on for ‘probably six months’

Today’s Florida primary features the largest and most diverse electorate of any contest to date in the Republican presidential primary fight. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney enters election day with a clear polling lead although former House Speaker Newt Gingrich pledged this morning that “ I’m not going to lose big in Florida .” Read full article > >

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Five counties to watch in the Florida primary

If he were elected president, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney says, he would cut companies’ tax bills . But former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) would cut them more than twice as much . Romney would eliminate some people’s capital-gains taxes. But Gingrich would eliminate everybody’s. Read full article > >

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Romney and Gingrich policy ideas mirror their personalities: Pragmatic vs. epic

TAMPA — Mitt Romney opened a double-digit lead over Newt Gingrich in a new poll ahead of Tuesday’s Florida Republican primary, but the Gingrich campaign insisted that the former House speaker is staying in the GOP nomination race for the long haul and remains the only conservative able to beat President Obama in November. Read full article > >

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New poll shows Romney surging in Fla.; Gingrich looks to future primaries

A harsh new ad from former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney uses news footage from 1997 to remind voters of then-House speaker Newt Gingrich ’s ethics violations. “History Lesson” is unusual in that neither Romney nor Gingrich appears. The entire 30-second spot consists of an NBC News report from Jan. 21, 1997, the day Gingrich was reprimanded by Congress for using tax-exempt money for political purposes and giving the House Ethics Committee false information. Read full article > >

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NBC objects to Mitt Romney’s ‘history lesson’ ad

The first Republican presidential debate of 2012 is just hours away — 9 p.m. on ABC (or WMUR if you are in New Hampshire) to be exact — and we are, admittedly, a little too excited. Since the last time the GOP candidates shared a debate stage, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich peaked too soon, Iowa voters, well, voted and one-time top-tier candidate Michele Bachmann ended her campaign . (Texas Gov. Rick Perry hinted at doing the same but decided to stay in while on a run in Iowa . Not kidding — that really happened.) Read full article > >

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New Hampshire debate: What to watch for