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Cost-cut talk is long on emotion, short on details
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the heated talk about deep spending cuts that will dominate Congress in the coming weeks, one thing is likely to be in short supply: details. The reason is simple. Americans embrace the general, abstract idea of reducing...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Mitch McConnell, Washington, DC, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting
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House GOP seeks to win by losing on the debt ceiling
In one nimble move, House Republicans on Friday appear to have extricated themselves from a self-made political trap that threatened the U.S. economy -- and their hold on the House. The trap was the hard-line position many House Republicans had taken on...
Tags: Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Health Insurance, Public Finance
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Tea party down but not out
Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Tea Party Movement, Todd Akin, Heritage Foundation, Politics
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Sandy relief package swells aid for past disasters
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives and watchdog groups are mounting a "not-so-fast" campaign against a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern governors and lawmakers hope to push through the House this coming week. Their...
Tags: Business, Smithsonian Institution, Federal Bailout Funds, Washington, DC, Tim Huelskamp
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U.S. Rep. Rigell named to House Budget Committee
U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Virginia Beach, will serve on the House of Representatives Budget Committee in the 113th Congress. Rigell, who was sworn in for his second term in the House Thursday, was an outspoken advocate as a freshman for increasing revenue...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. House of Representatives, Scott Rigell
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'Fiscal cliff' deal approved, avoiding tax increases, spending cuts
A bipartisan plan to avoid federal spending reductions and tax increases that would hit Maryland especially hard won final approval Tuesday night in the House of Representatives even as outside groups warned that the bill would simply delay difficult...
Tags: Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Woodlawn (Baltimore, Maryland), Government Contracts, Government Debt, Budgets and Budgeting
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Mitt's team scrambles with aftermath of FEMA comment and 'Romnesia'
Words have a way of coming back to haunt Mitt Romney, especially when he says them in front of television cameras. As the nation braced itself for Hurricane Sandy to slam into the East Coast, Romney's campaign was busily issuing denials to clean up an...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Today (tv program), Budgets and Budgeting, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Health Insurance
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No budging as fiscal cliff talks appear stalled
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans aren't budging on tax rates, and Democrats are resisting steps like raising the eligibility age for Medicare. Negotiations on averting a year-end fiscal train wreck combining big automatic tax hikes and sweeping...
Tags: Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Mitch McConnell, CBS Corp., Washington, DC, Social Security
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Candidates split on best way to treat Medicare
Medicare poses knotty problems. Not only has the number of recipients increased, the costs per person have gone up as medical care has gotten pricier. The Congressional Budget Office projects that Medicare spending will go up more than 6 percent a year...Tags: Judges, Politics, Lawyers, Health Insurance Cost, Hospitals and Clinics
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As DGA run ends, O'Malley likely to stay on national stage
President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman on Monday when the group meets in Los Angeles. But neither development is...
Tags: CNN (tv network), Martin O'Malley, Washington, DC, CBS Corp., Republican Governors Association
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Paul Ryan taken to task for fashion choices
Los Angeles TimesWhen Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R.-Wis.) billowed onto the national political stage in Norfolk, Va., as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate this month, the reaction was swift and unanimous — at least among the fashion-focused. Press pundits,...Tags: Washington, DC, Politics, Mark Zuckerberg, Media Industry, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Huelskamp wants to be put back on committees
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsUPDATE: Rep. Tim Huelskamp sent a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and the Republican Steering Committee Friday asking that he be put back on the Budget and Agriculture Committees. - Click to Read Full Letter Huelskamp is also demanding...Tags: Tea Party Movement, U.S. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, John Boehner, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting
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