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FDA: Morning-after pill OK for ages 15 and up
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is moving the morning-after pill over the counter but only those 15 and older can buy it — an attempt to find middle ground just days before a court-imposed deadline to lift all age restrictions on the...Tags: Judges, Justice System, Health Treatments, Washington, DC, Crime, Law and Justice
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Competing plans on student loan rates fail in Senate
WASHINGTON — With student loan rates set to double in about four weeks, competing proposals to prevent the increase were defeated in back-to-back Senate votes Thursday, leaving the issue unresolved. The failed measures leave lawmakers snarled in a...
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Politics, Washington, DC, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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Congress shows just how optional a budget can be
This post has been updated, as indicated below. During the last three years of President Obama's first term, Republicans (and a fair number of readers here) blasted congressional Democrats repeatedly for failing to pass a federal budget -- even in 2010,...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Politics, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Parties and Movements, White House
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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), Harry Reid, Politics, Washington, DC, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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FDA lowers age for buyers of Plan B pill to 15
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprise twist to the decade-plus effort to ease access to morning-after pills, the government is lowering the age limit to 15 for one brand — Plan B One-Step — and will let it be sold over the counter. Today,...
Tags: Judges, Justice System, Health Treatments, Washington, DC, Crime, Law and Justice
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No debt agreement, no break
With no deal in sight to curb our growing national debt, America is going broke. So what do our representatives in Congress plan to do about it? Take a two-week break. Are they trying to see whether their abysmal 13% approval rating can sink any lower?...
Tags: John Boehner, Budget Control Act of 2011, Fiscal Cliff, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics
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Let the Senate vote-a-rama begin
WASHINGTON – Step aside, stately Senate. Say hello to vote-a-rama. On Friday, the usually lonely floor of the U.S. Senate was thrown open for that most rare of occurrences – a free-for-all frenzy of amendment-making, which is required for...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Ceremonies, Tom Coburn, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics
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Piling on more debt
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats in the US Senate have broken the law for four years by not passing a budget. This is the height of criminal gross negligence as US debt passes $16.5 trillion and approaches $17 trillion, as 46 cents of...Tags: Harry Reid, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Elections
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House Republicans and Senate Democrats split on tax reform
The House and Senate budget committees presented their fiscal 2014 budget proposals this week with sharply different story lines. For House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the point of the exercise was to chart a path to a balanced budget...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Taxation, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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Senate panel to approve budget sparing safety net
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting on the Senate's first budget since President Barack Obama took office, a Democratic-led panel is moving toward party-line approval of a fiscal blueprint that would trim the budget deficit while protecting safety net programs...
Tags: Politics, Washington, DC, Medical Procedures and Tests, Jeff Sessions, Medicaid
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Unbalanced budgeting
In case anyone has missed the dueling budget proposals out this week from Rep. Paul Ryan on the Republican side and Sen. Patty Murray for the Democrats, don't fret. You could easily have slept through the last four months and missed nothing. They are...
Tags: Politics, Health Care Reform (2009), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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Unbalanced on budgets
New budget proposals this week from influential members of the House Republican and Senate Democratic leadership are the stuff of political caricatures. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), last year's Republican nominee for vice...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Elections, Government Health Care, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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