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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: Social Security, American Enterprise Institute, Mitt Romney, Periodicals, Budgets and Budgeting
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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: Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Parties and Movements, 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: Social Security, Georgetown, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Brookings Institution, Prices
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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, U.S. Congress, Alternative Energy, Parties and Movements, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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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: U.S. Congress, Peter T. King, Government Debt, John Boehner, Budgets and Budgeting
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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: Government Health Care, U.S. Congress, Drugs and Medicines, Health Insurance, Medicare
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Ryan budget: shooting blanks
WASHINGTON -- Paul Ryan's budget is an amazing and wondrous document. Not only does it balance the budget in 10 years while reducing tax rates, it also does so without any pain or suffering -- or even breaking a sweat. It achieves not just the...
Tags: Company Privatization, Parties and Movements, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Taxation, CBS Corp.
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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, Government Health Care, Parties and Movements, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Public Finance
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Letters: Sticking with Obamacare
Re "GOP renews effort to kill 'Obamacare,'" March 11 The costs and limitations of America's healthcare system have made it unsustainable. President Obama's healthcare law addressed some of the issues effectively but failed to address others and included...Tags: Healthcare Provider, Justice System, U.S. Congress, Michele Bachmann, Lawyers
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Obama kicks off week of meetings on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON – President Obama’s public push to restore relations with his congressional colleagues entered its second stage – the luncheon phase – Tuesday, when he conferred with Senate Democrats for the first of four midday...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Jay Carney, Benjamin L. Cardin, Carl Levin
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Charm has its limits
WASHINGTOLN -- It's week two of the president's charm offensive, and already there is dissension in the ranks. Jay Carney, the occasionally charming spokesman for the newly charming president, began his daily media briefing Monday with a smile, a...
Tags: Parties and Movements, NBC (tv network), Bob Woodward, CBS Corp., Budgets and Budgeting
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Ryan in fantasyland
WASHINGTON -- If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller. You will recall that The Ryan Budget was...
Tags: Rick Scott, Parties and Movements, Fiscal Cliff, Mitt Romney, Health Care Reform (2009)
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