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The Obama budget and the appearance of reform
— Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget. Normal had...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Barack Obama, Politics, Budget Control Act of 2011, Paul Ryan
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Students' documentary on the deficit airs on C-SPAN
Weston students Brian Bosem, Camila Tussie and Jacob Wilentz got a big thrill recently when their documentary aired on C-SPAN. The eighth-graders at Falcon Cove Middle School took third in the network's nationwide StudentCam competition for their entry,...Tags: C-SPAN (tv network), Lincoln Chafee, here! (tv network), Government, Gary Herbert
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The Obama 2014 budget proposal and the appearance of reform
WASHINGTON - Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget. Normal had...Tags: Career and Workplace, Politics, Barack Obama, Budget Control Act of 2011, Retirement
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Obama's Social Security proposal sparks GOP confusion
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's proposal to trim Social Security's cost-of-living adjustments has sparked not only Democratic outrage, but Republican confusion. In the days since Obama put the idea in his 2014 budget, Republicans' reactions have...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, John Boehner
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AP analysis: Obama's budget tries to bridge political gap
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's first budget of his new term is a political straddle, aimed at enticing Republicans into a new round of deficit negotiations while trying to keep faith with Democrats who favor higher taxes in service of...
Tags: Republican Party, Personal Income, Democratic Party, Medicare, Government Health Care
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Reality check
Change of SubjectEventually, the country will have to confront the deficit we have, rather than the deficit we imagine. The one we imagine is a deficit caused by waste, fraud, abuse, foreign aid, oil-industry subsidies and vague out-of-control spending. The one we...... -
Closer to Obama's 'grand bargain'
The budget proposal President Obama released Wednesday sticks close to the themes of increased public investment and middle-class growth that he sounded in his reelection campaign, but it includes one notable new feature. For the first time, Obama lays...Tags: Personal Income, Government Health Care, Budgets and Budgeting, Medicare, Barack Obama
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Now on the table: Entitlements
At a Republican presidential debate in 2011, all eight candidates on the stage said they would reject a budget deal that raised taxes even if it had $10 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increases. At Tuesday's protest, I put the reverse question...
Tags: Republican Party, Medicare, Barack Obama, Politics, Paul Ryan
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Obama unveils $3.78-trillion budget proposal
WASHINGTON — President Obama laid out his vision Wednesday for $3.78 trillion in federal spending, unveiling a budget proposal for the next fiscal year that aims to reignite cooled deficit reduction talks while opening negotiations over the fate...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Barack Obama, Lois Capps, Paul Ryan
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Obama says his budget has 'manageable' cuts to entitlement programs
WASHINGTON -- President Obama argued for “manageable” changes to Medicare and other social safety net programs as he released his budget proposal, a plan aimed at staking out the middle ground in the stalled deficit reduction talks. “...Tags: Republican Party, Government Health Care, Medicare, Politics, Barack Obama
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Obama budget impact on California: Win some, lose some
WASHINGTON---President Obama’s budget offers a mixed bag to California: money eagerly sought by Los Angeles to expand its transit system, but no federal funds to help the state pay its nearly billion-dollar bill for jailing illegal immigrants. The...
Tags: Lois Capps, Barack Obama, Politics, Social Security, Washington, DC
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U.S. Democrats, GOP talk up deficit reduction, but don't act
WASHINGTON (AP) — Liberals' loud objections to White House proposals for slowing the growth of huge social programs make it clear that neither political party puts a high priority on reducing the deficit, despite much talk to the contrary. For...
Tags: Republican Party, Congressional Budget Office, Medicare, Prescription Drugs, Politics
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