House Republicans Weigh Ambition vs. Caution

“As House Republicans return to Washington for the new year, their leaders must decide how ambitious the party will be in the 10 months before their majority faces voters in November,” The Hill reports.

“The smart money is on a cautious election-year strategy, favoring targeted, politically safe legislation over more contentious drives to reform the tax code, overhaul immigration policy and advance a long-awaited conservative alternative to the new healthcare law.”

David Drucker: “Republican campaign strategists view the troubled Obamacare as unqualified electoral gold.”