The NRCC finally has some money to spend, thanks to a cash infusion from GOP House members. At the urging of Minority Leader John Boehner, various House Republicans transferred a little over $3 million from their own campaign accounts into the NRCC's account. The DCCC has vastly outraised the NRCC this year, as the Dems had over $30 million cash-on-hand as of the end of September. The four biggest donors: Boehner kicked in $505,000, while Dave Dreier donated $500,000, Wally Herger have $250,000, and NRCC Chair Tom Cole contributed $175,000. Herger is seeking to replace retiring Jim McCrery as the ranking Republican on the powerful Ways & Means Committee ... It looks like Congressional Democrats are on the verge of appropriating the President's requested war funding, with no strings attached. Dems also backed down in the face of veto threats on abortion, the environment, health care, and other issues of concern to the party's base. The move will enable Congress to adjourn before Christmas. "We should have sent [the President] more appropriations bills and made him veto all of them. We’re letting him off easy,” complained liberal Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) to The Politco.
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