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White House threatens to veto House GOP debt limit plan
The Associated PressThe White House threatened Tuesday to veto legislation pending in the House to avert a threatened default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes to pass the measure. Boehner faced criticism from some...Tags: Medicare, Ohio, Justice System, Harry Reid, White House
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Projected lower deficit this year could further slow any demand for big budget deal
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The good news is the budget deficit for the current year is projected to come in well below what was estimated just a few months ago. The bad news for deficit hawks is that the development could further curb the already slowing...Tags: Parties and Movements, Bankruptcy, Gross Domestic Product, Congressional Budget Office, White House
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GOP may seek to tie debt ceiling deal to tax code changes
WASHINGTON — In a little more than a week, the U.S. will hit its debt limit — and the maneuvering has begun against a backdrop of the mid-2011 drama that led to the nation's first-ever credit downgrade. An improving economy and higher taxes,...Tags: Financial and Business Services, Bonds, Tom McClintock, Credit and Debt, Republican Party
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Child's play over the budget
WASHINGTON -- The budget feud on Capitol Hill is looking like those Vietnam War peace talks when negotiators bickered over the shape of the table. House Republicans, after howling for years about Senate Democrats' failure to pass a budget, are...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Medicare, Parliament, Parties and Movements, Ted Cruz
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Mary Jo White's spin at SEC's revolving door
One of the oft-repeated justifications for why Wall Street must be regulated by Wall Streeters is that what goes on there is both so complex and so essential that only those who have been part of it can be trusted to oversee it. This argument is bunk, of...Tags: Sherrod Brown, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Business Enterprises
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Charm has its limits
WASHINGTOLN -- It's week two of the president's charm offensive, and already there is dissension in the ranks. Jay Carney, the occasionally charming spokesman for the newly charming president, began his daily media briefing Monday with a smile, a...
Tags: Medicare, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Organizing for Action, Republican Party
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Mitt Romney on ‘Fox News Sunday’; Bob Woodward on ‘Face the Nation’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe guest list will be more star-studded than usual this Sunday morning. It should be especially fascinating to hear the discussion about whether the White House is threatening reporters. Bob Woodward of The Washington Post has said he was made... -
Saturday's TV Highlights: Mitt and Ann Romney on Fox News Sunday
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 3 - 9, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES "The Graham Norton Show" Richard Gere, John...
Tags: Current TV (tv network), Fox Broadcasting Company, Dick Durbin, Holland Taylor, Real Estate
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White House to nominate new budget director
WASHINGTON – As he prepares for more spending battles with Congress, President Obama plans to nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, head of the Walmart Foundation, as his next budget director, the White House said Sunday. A former deputy budget...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Charity, Jeffrey Zients, Walmart, Jack Lew
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Regretfully, Washington as usual
WASHINGTON -- Last week gave us a textbook case of why Americans hate Washington. The nation was on the verge of a financial shock -- an entirely avoidable shock that policymakers themselves set in motion -- but all people in this town wanted to talk...
Tags: Politics, The Washington Post, Budget Control Act of 2011, Entertainment Events, POLITICO LLC
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Woodward and Sperling
WASHINGTON -- To the world beyond the Beltway, it might not mean much that Bob Woodward of the famed Watergate duo went public with his recent White House run-in. This would be an oversight. It also may not mean much that the White House press corps...
Tags: Tiger Woods, Freedom of the Press, White House, Washington, DC, Arts and Culture
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Officials optimistic federal government can avert shutdown
WASHINGTON — Signaling a cease-fire of sorts in Washington's bitter budget wars, Republican leaders in Congress and a senior White House official expressed optimism Sunday that they can reach a deal to avoid adding a painful government shutdown this...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Government, Republican Party, Television Industry
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