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Despite reports that the White House is open to a compromise on whether to extend current tax rates or raise taxes starting in 2011, presumed House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that he will continue to press for a permanent extension of all Bush-era tax cuts. (more)

In what could become a showdown for the No. 2 spot in Democratic House leadership, Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer announced Friday that he would consider a run for Minority Whip, a position South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn says he intends to keep in 2011.  (more)

Facing widespread criticism for saying that Republicans’ top priority is to remove President Obama from the White House, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reaffirmed that if the party wants to implement its agenda, Obama must change course or exit the picture completely. (more)

On the heels of a wave election Tuesday night, Republican leaders stressed Wednesday that they would govern by “listening to the American people,” and said they would commit to making government “smaller, less costly and more accountable.” (more)

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez said Sunday that Democrats are open to temporarily extending the Bush-era tax cuts for Americans earning more than $250,000 per year, which are set to expire at the end of this year. (more)

Liberal bloggers pressed President Obama on his opposition to gay marriage in a private White House meeting Wednesday, but the president refused to budge from his conviction that the government should not sanction marriages between same-sex couples. (more)

Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips explained why he sent out an e-mail that included the Muslim faith of Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison on a list of reasons not to support him, claiming that Tea Party members ought to “seriously consider” whether they should vote for a candidate who adheres to Islam. (more)

Democratic Senate candidate Jack Conway took a risk by focusing on his opponent’s colorful college history and according to a new survey from a Democratic polling firm, Kentucky voters aren’t buying it. (more)

After falling three points behind Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Sestak in the race for the state’s Senate seat last week, Republican Pat Toomey now leads 48-40 percent, a Morning Call/Muhlenberg College Tracker poll shows. (more)

Democratic candidates in California have extended their leads over Republican challengers in the races for Senate and the governor’s mansion, a new Fox News poll shows. (more)

The committee tasked with electing Republicans to the Senate raised $6.2 million in the first two weeks of October, about half a million dollars more than its Democratic counterpart. (more)

GOProud, a group that represents gay conservatives, is going where no gay organization has gone before: It’s running a campaign ad against a Democratic candidate. (more)

Now that Fox News contributor Juan Williams has been dropped from National Public Radio, the liberal website Media Matters for America is now targeting Mara Liasson, the last remaining NPR correspondent who works with Fox News. (more)

Former National Public Radio analyst Juan Williams, who was fired Wednesday for remarks about Muslims during an appearance on Fox News, said he didn’t even get a chance to talk face-to-face with his editors before they dropped him from the organization. (more)

An openly gay Iraq War veteran on Wednesday said he was “angry,” hurt and “disgusted” by President Obama’s decision to appeal a court ruling ending the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. (more)

It’s a sound bite that just won’t die, and one Democrats plan to take to the grave this elections season: Republicans are only winning because their campaigns are flush with cash from secret donors. (more)

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is attacking Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias for supporting tax increases in a new ad, and claims he was exempt from paying taxes in 2009. (more)

If you thought the battle in 2000 over “hanging chads” in Florida was a thrill, you’ll love Alaska’s possible forthcoming dispute over misspelled write-in ballots for Republican Sen. Lisa Murkouski…Merkosky…Murkowski. (more)

1.) Joe Miller’s private security guards take ‘libruhl’ media antipathy too far — The bearded David to Sen. Murkowski’s pinch-faced Goliath may have just provided a boon to everyone else running for Alaska’s Senate seat. On Sunday, Miller’s private security team put an Alaskan journalist in an arm-bar and then handcuffs during an event at a public middle school because the reporter, Tony Hopfinger of Alaska Dispatch, would not stop asking inconvenient questions about Miller’s past. According to Hopfinger’s own account and photographs, Miller’s team restrained the camera-wielding journalist, then told him he was under arrest and made him sit handcuffed in a corner for 30 mins until the police arrived, at which time it was revealed that Miller is not Wyatt Earp and Alaska circa 2010 is not a Cormac McCarthy novel, where might makes right, etc., etc. Miller, a decorated military veteran and Harvard Law graduate, made light of such violence during his speech when he said of securing America’s southern border, “If the East Germans could do it, we can do it.” (more)

The medical industry and the federal government would save billions of dollars every year and lower health care costs by changing the way hospitals buy medical supplies, according to a new study paid for by the Medical Device Manufacturers Association. (more)