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House defeats alternative budgets
WASHINGTON – Think of it as what could have been: Alternative visions of the federal budget from progressives, conservatives and other rank-and-file lawmakers that have little chance of passing but offer another view of priorities. As House...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Medicare, Elections, Government Health Care
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GOP approves Paul Ryan's austere, balanced budget
WASHINGTON – The austere House budget drafted by Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) that has come to define the Republican Party was approved Thursday on a strict party-line vote, as the GOP argues that a balanced budget should now be Washington’s top...
Tags: Republican Party, Private Health Care, Health Insurance Cost, Barack Obama, Politics
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Progress slows on Budget Bill to avoid shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dispute over budget cuts that threaten dozens of smaller control towers with closure slowed Senate progress Tuesday on legislation to avoid a government shutdown on March 27. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., refused repeatedly to...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Budget Control Act of 2011, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Elections
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Progress slows on federal budget bill
WASHINGTON -- A dispute over budget cuts that threaten dozens of smaller control towers with closure slowed Senate progress Tuesday on legislation to avoid a government shutdown on March 27. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., refused repeatedly to permit...Tags: Labor Legislation, Republican Party, Politics, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Elections
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John Boehner on ‘This Week’; Paul Ryan on ‘Face the Nation’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelHouse Speaker John Boehner speaks at a Thursday press briefing on Capitol Hill. Photo credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: The Sunday morning guest list: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks to Martha Raddatz on ABC's “... -
Our biggest problem is not deficits
"Our biggest problems over the next 10 years are not deficits," President Barack Obama told House Republicans last week, according to those who attended the meeting. The president needs to deliver the same message to the public, loudly and clearly....
Tags: Republican Party, National Government, Politics, Barack Obama, Unemployment
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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, Periodicals, Politics, Barack Obama, Elections
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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: European Debt Crisis, National Government, Politics, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Defense
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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: Georgetown, Prices, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama
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The unmasking of Paul Ryan and his budget
Quick! Somebody tell President Obama. Alert the members of Congress. Shout it out to the media: I have balanced the budget! That's right. Me. Bill Press, talk show host. I did it. I can't balance my own checkbook, but I balanced the federal budget. In...
Tags: Republican Party, Health Insurance Cost, Barack Obama, Politics, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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Obama's economic policies will destroy the country
Only among The Sun's editors and the Democratic Party is the 3.5 percent annual growth in the federal budget proposed by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan considered "egregious" ("Unbalanced budgeting," March 14). Representative Ryan's plan to spend "only"...Tags: Harry Reid, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting
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Before conservative activists, Romney touts defense
OXON HILL, Md.--Returning to a public stage for the first time since losing the presidential election, Mitt Romney called on Republicans Friday to put a powerful U.S. military at the top of their agenda. The 2012 Republican nominee had a distrustful...
Tags: Nathan Deal, Republican Party, Rick Snyder, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Mar 15, 2013
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