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Murkowski to Co-Chair Senate Oceans Caucus
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she will be co-chairperson of a new bipartisan caucus focused on oceans.
The Senate Oceans Caucus will meet for the first time Tuesday, when other leaders will be chosen.
Murkowski says the caucus will educate members...Tags: Sheldon Whitehouse, Olympia J. Snowe, Richard Blumenthal, Maria Cantwell, Benjamin L. Cardin
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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: U.S. Senate, Medicare, White House, Ted Cruz, Politics
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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: Women's Health, Family Planning, Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Justice, Health Treatments
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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: Women's Health, Family Planning, Washington, DC, Health Treatments, Barack Obama
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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: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Fiscal Cliff, Public Finance, Paul Ryan
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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: Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Senate, Politics, Parties and Movements, Tom Coburn
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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: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Harry Reid, 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: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Parties and Movements, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Paul Ryan
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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: Jeff Sessions, Social Security, Medicare, Politics, Government Health Care
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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: Medicare, Politics, Government Health Care, Public Finance, Tea Party Movement
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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, Parties and Movements, Medicare, Politics, Government Health Care
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Which budget is better? Republicans' or Democrats'?
Republicans and Democrats introduced rival 10-year budget plans Tuesday. Republicans said their plan, again drafted by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, would balance the budget in a decade, in part by cutting spending on Medicare and Medicaid and...Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Budgets and Budgeting, Medicare, Parties and Movements, Politics
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