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Santorum will be in the spotlight at Saturday night's debate

Republican presidential candidates face off for their first debate in three weeks on Saturday night, a high-stakes showdown as Mitt Romney hints that he's poised to run away with the nomination and Rick Santorum grabs the spotlight for the first time in the battle to be the main anti-Romney. | 01/06/12 17:55:00 By - Steven Thomma, David Lightman and William Douglas

Santorum faces a GOP crowd in New Hampshire different from Iowa

He surged out of nowhere in Iowa. Now, can Rick Santorum do the same in New Hampshire? How he navigates here will determine whether he's another Pat Buchanan, who scored an impressive populist protest vote against an establishment choice here in both the 1992 and 1996 GOP primaries, or another Mike Huckabee, who in 2008 watched his Iowa success stopped cold here. | 01/05/12 18:15:00 By - Steven Thomma and William Douglas

Santorum will ride momentum from Iowa into New Hampshire, eyeing S.C., too

Emboldened by his strong Iowa finish, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is headed to New Hampshire — the heart of Mitt Romney country — instead of making a beeline with fellow social conservatives Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann to more politically hospitable South Carolina. | 01/03/12 18:05:00 By - William Douglas

Iowa Republicans poised to remake campaign for White House

Iowa Republicans will gather Tuesday night at fire stations, schools, libraries and community centers across the state to vote their choice for the GOP nomination to oppose President Barack Obama this fall. Yet even at this last minute, the outcome remains highly unpredictable. | 01/02/12 17:09:00 By - David Lightman and William Douglas

Newt says Obama seeks to steal elections with ID ruling

Republican presidential hopefuls spent Saturday crisscrossing Iowa Saturday ahead of Tuesday's caucuses, but some candidates had one eye towards South Carolina's Jan. 21 primary and an issue that might help them gain traction in the Palmetto State. | 12/31/11 17:32:00 By - William Douglas

GOP’s Iowa race tightens poll finds as contenders urge support

Republican presidential candidates spent the last day of 2011 Saturday making their closing arguments to curious, often uncertain voters as the race remained fluid. | 12/31/11 17:19:00 By - David Lightman, Steven Thomma and William Douglas

Santorum is peaking in Iowa, but then what?

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has gone from afterthought to X Factor in the Republican presidential field during the closing days before Tuesday's Iowa caucuses. | 12/31/11 14:57:00 By - William Douglas and David Lightman

Iowa Republicans closing in on presidential choice as caucuses near

With Iowa Republicans starting to make up their minds — and shuffling the deck of candidates — the 2012 presidential contest turned emotional Friday, just days before the state's caucuses kick off the voting for a GOP nominee. | 12/30/11 17:22:00 By - Steven Thomma, David Lightman and William Douglas

GOP candidates split into 2 tiers in Iowa

The volatile struggle for votes in next Tuesday's Iowa Republican presidential caucuses featured two different fights Thursday. Despite all the news media attention to the latest polls, the outcome remains difficult to predict, since many voters are still candidate-shopping. | 12/29/11 18:31:00 By - David Lightman, William Douglas and Steven Thomma

Congress invokes 'Schoolhouse Rock' in debate, but misquotes it

During Tuesday's heated debate over whether the House of Representatives and the Senate need to form a conference committee to resolve their differences over an extension of the Social Security payroll-tax cut, lawmakers didn't just quote the Constitution: They invoked "Schoolhouse Rock" and "I'm Just a Bill." | 12/20/11 18:01:00 By - William Douglas

House Republicans expected to reject Senate payroll tax-cut bill

Rebellious House of Representatives Republicans fought hard Monday to scuttle a two-month extension of the Social Security payroll tax break, seriously jeopardizing chances that 160 million taxpayers will see the lower rate after Jan. 1. | 12/19/11 20:00:00 By - David Lightman and William Douglas

Gingrich rails at courts, suggests ignoring rulings

Picking up where he left off in last Thursday's Republican presidential debate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Saturday continued to rail against the federal judicial system, accusing it of overstepping its constitutional role and arguing that the president and Congress can ignore court decisions. | 12/17/11 15:33:00 By - William Douglas

Congress passes spending package but bigger money issues still loom

The House of Representatives on Friday approved a $915 billion spending package that will keep the government running through Sept. 30, but a separate agreement aimed at avoiding a Social Security payroll tax increase Jan. 1 remained elusive. | 12/16/11 17:31:00 By - David Lightman and William Douglas

$915 billion spending bill passes House

The House of Representatives Friday approved by a 296 to 121 vote a $915 billion spending package that will keep the government running through Sept. 30—but a separate agreement aimed at avoiding a Social Security payroll tax increase Jan. 1 remained elusive. The Senate is expected to approve the spending plan as soon as Saturday. | 12/16/11 14:00:45 By - David Lightman and William Douglas

Newt Gingrich's mouth is famous as a verbal blowtorch

During his rhetorical bomb-throwing days in the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich once dissected the seemingly innocent movie "Forrest Gump" and turned it into a scathing critique of President Bill Clinton, Democrats and liberals. | 12/15/11 14:55:00 By - William Douglas

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