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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: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Budget Control Act of 2011, Barack Obama, Politics, Steny Hoyer
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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: Barack Obama, Rob Portman, Politics, Patty Murray, Budgets and Budgeting
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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: Barack Obama, Politics, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Lobbying, Citigroup Incorporated
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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: Barack Obama, Budget Control Act of 2011, Politics, CBS Corp., Sea Bass
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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... -
My Story of the Fantastically Unimpressive Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward has been in the news lately for a silly flare-up over his self-aggrandizing misrepresentation of an innocuous email sent by Gene Sperling regarding the sequester. I won’t re-litigate the whole mess here (and if you want a solid recap,...
Tags: John Cook, Politics, The New York Times, Robert Redford, Central Intelligence Agency
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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: Richard Gere, Aaron Neville, USA Today, Mitch McConnell, China
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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: Barack Obama, Politics, Valerie Jarrett, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Congress
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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: Budget Control Act of 2011, F-bomb Dropping, Entertainment Events, Politics, The Washington Post
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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: Barack Obama, Politics, Richard Nixon, The Washington Post, Customs and Tradition
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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: Budget Control Act of 2011, Politics, National Economic Council, ABC (tv network), Budgets and Budgeting
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Woodward vs. White House: Carney denies threats
WASHINGTON – When not fighting with Republicans, the White House has been tangling with one of the capital’s best-known and best-sourced reporters. But the Bob Woodward vs. White House sideshow moved to the center ring on Thursday. And much of...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Barack Obama, Politics, The Washington Post, POLITICO LLC
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Mar 4, 2013
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Feb 28, 2013
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