"I want my party to stand for something, " he said, complaining that his colleagues failed to toe the party platform line on issues such as international policy, gun control and abortion.

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The Alliance Party and the Ulster Unionists both quit a cross-party working group complaining about the lack of progress.

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At the time, Republican lawmakers were complaining publicly about alleged IRS targeting of tea-party groups.

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They made the request after the party got calls beginning early in the morning from voters complaining that polls weren't open and judges weren't at the polling stations.

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The largest opposition party, the Ivorian Popular Front, was given four posts but then walked out complaining that these were not enough.

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