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GOP lawmakers welcome Obama overtures on budget battle
Republican lawmakers said Sunday they welcome President Obama’s courtship and suggested the fresh engagement between the White House and Congress might help yield solutions to the stubborn budget battle that puts Americans’ jobs at risk....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Timothy M. Kaine, Executive Branch, Paul Ryan, U.S. Congress
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House votes to defuse debt limit crisis
Associated PressRetreating with a purpose, Republicans sped legislation through the House on Wednesday to avert the imminent threat of a government default but pointing the way to a springtime budget struggle with President Barack Obama over Medicare, farm subsidies...Tags: Tom Reed, Washington, DC, Dave Camp, Tea Party Movement, Crime, Law and Justice
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Given 2nd term, Obama, with divided Congress, must deal with impending financial crisis
Associated PressPresident Barack Obama faces a new urgent task now that he has a second term, working with a status-quo Congress to address an impending financial crisis that economists say could send the country back into recession. “You made your voice heard,&...Tags: Elizabeth Warren, Tea Party Movement, Money and Monetary Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, John Boehner
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Dems slam Ryan over Social Security privatization
Associated PressDemocrats are eagerly renewing their fight against privatizing Social Security now that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. It was a fight that didn’t go well for the GOP when President George W....Tags: John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, White House
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Romney says he's paid at least 13% in taxes every year for last decade
Associated PressRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Thursday that he has never paid less than 13 percent of his income in taxes during the past decade. But he declined anew to release the records that would prove it. “I did go back and look at my...Tags: Michelle Obama, Republican Party, Harry Reid, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements
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Obama's $3.8 trillion budget plan would raise taxes for wealthy
AP Economics WriterPresident Barack Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion spending plan on Monday for 2013 that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade but does little to restrain growth in the government’s huge health benefit programs, a major...Tags: Republican Party, Health Insurance, Parties and Movements, Public Finance, Health
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Congressional budget analysts say Obama budget pares deficits by $1.1 trillion over decade
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade, using nearly $6 in higher revenues for every $1 in reduced spending to achieve it, Congress' nonpartisan budget...Tags: Washington, DC, Public Finance, Politics, U.S. Congress, Paul Ryan
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Budget surpluses spur tension in some GOP states, including Michigan
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Turns out that cutting was the easy part. Now Republicans who control a majority of the state capitols in the United States face a far greater philosophical dilemma — what to do with all the money when an improving...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Republican Party, Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch
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Federal deficit shrinks at surprising rate
WASHINGTON — The federal deficit is shrinking more quickly than expected, and the government's long-term debt has largely stabilized for the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday in a report that could strengthen the Obama...
Tags: Washington, DC, Dave Camp, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Productivity
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Obama's budget puts the onus on Ryan
WASHINGTON — When it comes to deficit reduction, President Barack Obama may have correctly taken the measure of Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and U.S. corporate leaders; that's a reason why any deficit deal is more remote than ever. Two and a...Tags: Alan Greenspan, Washington, DC, Republican Party, John Boehner, U.S. Senate
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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: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Washington, DC, Harry Reid, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements
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Rigell introduces legislation to repeal Maritime food-aid cuts
VIRGINIA BEACH — U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Virginia Beach, introduced legislation Wednesdas to repeal cuts to the amount of U.S. food aid required to be carried on U.S. flagged vessels. Along with U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., Rigell is...Tags: Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Scott Rigell
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