Gop Faces Decision On Dealing with Mavericks ; Centrists' Stem Cell, Filibuster Moves Have Some in Party Calling for Purge

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › May 27, 2005

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WASHINGTON - Fault lines in the Republican coalition are threatening the party's fabled unity, forcing it to choose between a bruising purge of independent-minded dissidents or accommodating their views on such issues as federal judges and Social Security.

Long-simmering tensions in the party burst into public this week with a double-play show of force by moderates against the conservatives who rule the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House.

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Gop Faces Decision On Dealing with Mavericks ; Centrists' Stem Cell, Filibuster Moves Have Some in Party Calling for Purge

Republican moderates pushed through a House vote in defiance of President Bush and House leaders to expand federal financing for stem-cell research using human embryos. Others brokered a Senate d...

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