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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, Students, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Education
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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: Barack Obama, Physical Fitness and Exercise, U.S. Senate, Budgets and Budgeting, Public Finance
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U.S. debt limit resets at higher level, budget impasse grinds on
Reuters* New debt limit reset at $16.7 trillion * No movement seen in Congress on budget talks By David Lawder WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. government added $306 billion in new debt during a four-month suspension of the federal borrowing limit, the...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Budgets and Budgeting, Congressional Budget Office, Elections, John Boehner
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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: Barack Obama, NBC (tv network), U.S. Senate, Rob Portman, Budgets and Budgeting
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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, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Justice, Health Treatments, Judges
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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, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Justice, Health Treatments, Judges
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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: Barack Obama, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Fiscal Cliff, Budgets and Budgeting, Public Finance
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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: Barack Obama, Arts and Culture, U.S. Senate, Budgets and Budgeting, Parties and Movements
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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, Elections, Harry Reid, Politics
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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. House Committee on the Budget, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Budgets and Budgeting, Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress
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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: Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Medical Procedures and Tests, Budgets and Budgeting, Elections
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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: Barack Obama, ABC (tv network), Budgets and Budgeting, Public Finance, Elections
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