The period of Republican dominance has coincided with a huge explosion in lobbying: since 1994 the number of registered lobbyists has risen almost fourfold, to 36, 000.
In the period since the Republican convention, Gov. Sarah Palin won the "weeks" for her team.
This was the period when the Republican Party controlled all three branches of government.
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Democrats launched a legal challenge against a Republican-backed measure to limit the period that voters could cast ballots before the election, from 14 days to eight.
But Republicans might also take a second look at one of the more popular presidents of the post-WWII period, Dwight Eisenhower, who offered a very different vision of what the Republican Party could or should be.
Here is where the conduct of the Republican Senators will have a big impact on the future of this party in this crucial rebuilding period.
During that period, all of the 21 were targeted by the National Republican Campaign Committee, signaling the organization's desire to turn the competitive districts from blue to red.
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Along these lines, on Monday, Republican members of the Senate's Gang of Eight pushed to augment the period of time that an undocumented person would have to maintain legal permanent residency before applying for citizenship.
Led by Republican Darrell Issa, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed documents for that 10-month period.
Former Rep. Jim Kolbe, a centrist Republican who held Ms. Giffords' seat from 1984 to 2007, said that in the latter period of his tenure temperatures rose in his district, especially when Congress debated immigration.
In July the rules committee of the Republican convention rejected a reform proposal that would have staggered primaries and caucuses over a four-month period, with small states leading off and big states voting at the end.
They've raised more money than, you know, anybody else at this period in terms a Republican presidential field, but they're far behind what the Democrats have raised, which is an indication, I think, that right now you've had a lot of people sitting on the sidelines waiting to figure out which of these Republican is actually going to make a race of it.
He also wanted to usher in a period of prolonged Republican hegemony, much as William McKinley had done for his party in the late 19th century.
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It marks the start of the six-month period during which each US state will hold primary elections or caucuses to pick a Republican candidate, who will be officially nominated at the party convention in August.
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