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Sen. Jim DeMint, R-SC, discusses the Citizens Against Government Waste 2007 Congressional Pig Book Summary that highlights wasteful spending by the Congress during a news conference in Washington on March 7, 2007. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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CHARLESTON, S.C., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- With Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich's primary win in South Carolina, candidates say the GOP race is far from over.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Two Republican senators dropped their support Wednesday for bills aimed at curbing piracy on the Internet, saying the bills are badly designed.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. presidential candidates said Sunday it's time to narrow the playing field, otherwise front-runner Mitt Romney will be the party's nominee.
South Carolina, a bastion of social conservativism, is the state where backers of front-runner Mitt Romney hopes to lock down the Republican presidential nomination, well before Super Tuesday in March and Florida at the end of January.
COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- South Carolina Tea Party activists mobilized against GOP White House front-runner Mitt Romney, alarmed he has benefited from a fractured conservative vote.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Congressional endorsements are noticeably absent in the 2012 Republican U.S. presidential primary -- just six weeks before the Iowa caucuses.
A lengthy record, including a stint as governor of Massachusetts and executive director of the U.S. Olympic committee for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games, can be a blessing and a curse for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
COLUMBIA, S.C., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney pushed more moderate positions during a forum in conservative South Carolina, observers said.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Tea Party leader Jim DeMint expressed skepticism Sunday that President Barack Obama would offer effective measures to create jobs in his speech this week.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has called for the resignation of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, blaming him for S&P's downgrade of America's credit rating.
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