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Will Old Ties Put GOP in a Bind?

Portman, Blunt Tagged ‘Insiders’

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is clearly smitten with the candidacies of former Rep. Rob Portman in Ohio and Rep. Roy Blunt in Missouri, but will the two men’s ties to the Washington, D.C., political establishment and the Bush administration come back to haunt the GOP in 2010?

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.
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30 Hill Aides to Know

30 Hill Aides to Know

The clear expectation is Congress will get very little done this election year. But what does get accomplished, at least in the high-profile areas, will largely be the handiwork of an elite group of staffers — who combine policy expertise, political acumen and the trust of their lawmaker bosses to drive much of the legislative agenda.

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