WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, is cracking down on Republican members who don't meet performance benchmarks, observers say.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Two leading Republican U.S. House members said Sunday the outcome of Tuesday's election should not be seen as endorsement of "big-government" philosophy.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- House Minority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri officially announced Thursday his decision not to serve in that capacity in the next Congress.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Eric Cantor, rumored to be on the shortlist of John McCain's U.S. vice presidential picks, is not on the Republican National Convention speaking list.

WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- For a long time now, much of the discussion of the use of private contractors on the battlefield and war zones has been sensationalistic and not particularly helpful. Either contractors are just patriots helping out their former comrades, as most of them are former military themselves, or they are just war profiteering money-grubbers who trample on human rights. Neither view is correct.

RICHMOND, Va., May 20 (UPI) -- Former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore III says he's not interested in riding President George Bush's coattails in his quest to win the state's U.S. Senate seat.

WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- U.S. House of Representatives Democrats are considering breaking the contentious immigration reform bill into smaller elements, The Washington Times reported.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The Christian Coalition said it was hosting a training conference Friday in Washington with several GOP congressional and state leaders as speakers.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- More than 1,000 people jammed the tony Plaza Hotel in advance of a speech by U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, the House's lone Jewish Republican, Roll Call reports.