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Obama budget would have big impact in Md.
Labor unions representing federal employees reacted angrily to the $3.8 trillion budget unveiled Wednesday by President Barack Obama, who proposed trimming $20 billion from federal retirement benefits — reopening a debate many Democrats felt had...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), U.S. Congress, Republican Party, Employees, Democratic Party
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The Republicans' self-defeating war on eyeshades
What's with the green eyeshades? "I can't tell you how tired I am of Republicans who are green-eyeshade accountants," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Newsmax TV last weekend. Rep. Paul Ryan's "new budget road map is more vision than green-...Tags: Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Jimmy Carter, Government Health Care, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Ryan says deep budget cuts likely unavoidable
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Budget Committee says Republicans will oppose tax increases and, as a result, deep, unpopular budget cuts will likely take effect. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin told NBC's "Meet the Press" on...
Tags: Republican Party, Paul Ryan, Government Debt, Washington, DC, NBC (tv network)
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McManus: The GOP's tactical retreat
A well-organized retreat is said to be one of the most difficult military maneuvers: You're under enemy fire, your troops are likely to be demoralized, and you've got to avoid a rout. That why House Republicans' orderly withdrawal last week from an...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Polls, Government Health Care, Public Finance
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House GOP seeks to defuse debt crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — With tacit support from President Barack Obama, House Republicans were moving Wednesday to try to defuse a potential debt crisis with legislation to prevent an economy-rattling fiscal crisis for at least four months. The GOP...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Republican Party, Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Source document: Myth vs. Fact on the debt limit
Change of SubjectThis 2011 release from the U.S. Treasury Dept. is once again relevant: The debt limit is the total amount of money that the United States government is authorized to borrow to meet its existing legal obligations, including Social Security and...... -
Paul Ryan's new budget is no help to Republicans
Some of Paul Ryan's biggest fans are disappointed in his latest budget. Take New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. He credits Ryan, the Republican House Budget Committee chairman, for trying to give Medicare recipients the power and the incentive to...
Tags: Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Periodicals, Government Health Care, The New York Times
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Congress works on budget for both 2013 and future
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is finally cleaning up its unfinished budget business for the long-underway 2013 budget year with a bipartisan government-wide funding bill, even as the combatants in the House and Senate gear up for votes this week on...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Democratic Party, Layoffs and Downsizing, FBI, Harry Reid
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Government as old-age home
"The president is in the midst of a charm offensive." -- The Washington Post, referring to President Obama's meetings with congressional Republicans WASHINGTON -- We don't need a charm offensive; we need a candor offensive. The budget debate's central...
Tags: Health Insurance, Congressional Budget Office, Defense, Armed Forces, FBI
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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: U.S. Congress, Paul Ryan, Patty Murray, Taxation, Alternative Energy
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Obama meets with House Republicans in effort to rebuild trust
WASHINGTON — President Obama delivered a pitch for cooperation, and even word of a new pope, as he met with House Republicans on Wednesday, the latest of a series of meetings in his attempt to reboot his relationship with Congress. The afternoon...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Peter T. King, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama
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The Medicare debate we need
One criticism of the Medicare overhaul that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) has championed is that it would shift more and more of the program's costs onto seniors. In the latest version of his plan, Ryan acknowledges that capping...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Paul Ryan, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform (2009), Government Health Care
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