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Republican lawmakers show their division on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — The divide within the Republican Party over immigration reform was on full view Monday, as top party leaders made a case for overhauling the laws even as conservative senators argued that the Boston bombings showed the need to go slow....
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Russia, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Justice System, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Rep. Paul Ryan warns governors on Obama health care plan
Clout StreetThe chairman of the U.S. House Budget Committee said Monday he has been warning governors not to count on high federal reimbursement rates for expanding Medicaid coverage to low-income families under President Barack Obama’s health-care reform. U....Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care Reform (2009), Executive Branch, U.S. Congress, Government
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Ryan, Gutierrez say immigration reform work not deterred by Boston bombings
Clout StreetRepublican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, appearing today alongside Chicago Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez, said the terrorism events at the Boston Marathon last week have not and should not deter work on immigration reform. After an appearance at the City...Tags: FBI, Democratic Party, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Sports, Luis Gutierrez
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Ryan cites flaws in health care reform
The chairman of the U.S. House Budget Committee said Monday he has been warning governors not to count on high federal reimbursement rates for expanding Medicaid coverage to low-income families under President Barack Obama's health care reform. Rep....
Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care Reform (2009), Executive Branch, U.S. Congress, Government Health Care
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Maryland GOP elects new chairman
The Baltimore SunMaryland Republican Party interim chairman Diana Waterman fended off challenges and won election as head of the state GOP this past weekend, taking the reins as the party faces a shortened fundraising session for state lawmakers and challenges from...Tags: Queen Anne (Talbot, Maryland), Personal Weapon Control, Queen Anne's County, Parties and Movements, Alex X Mooney
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Now on the table: Entitlements
At a Republican presidential debate in 2011, all eight candidates on the stage said they would reject a budget deal that raised taxes even if it had $10 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increases. At Tuesday's protest, I put the reverse question...
Tags: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Fiscal Cliff, Personal Weapon Control, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Parties and Movements
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Obama unveils $3.78-trillion budget proposal
WASHINGTON — President Obama laid out his vision Wednesday for $3.78 trillion in federal spending, unveiling a budget proposal for the next fiscal year that aims to reignite cooled deficit reduction talks while opening negotiations over the fate...
Tags: Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, White House, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Congress
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How an Excel error fueled panic over the federal debt
One of the most fearsome statistics in the war against the federal deficit has always been the country's ratio of debt to gross domestic product. When this ratio reaches 90%, the argument goes, watch out -- lower economic growth is on the horizon. And...
Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Public Finance, Economic Indicator, Productivity, Politics
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Economists rebut, sort of, critique on high-debt, low-growth study
Harvard economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, authors of a widely-cited paper suggesting that high government debt levels lead to low growth -- have responded defensively to a new paper suggesting that their results were due to mathematical and...
Tags: Science and Technology, Government Debt, Productivity
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The Obama budget and the appearance of reform
— Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget. Normal had...
Tags: Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Career and Workplace, White House, Fiscal Cliff
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Obama's Social Security proposal sparks GOP confusion
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's proposal to trim Social Security's cost-of-living adjustments has sparked not only Democratic outrage, but Republican confusion. In the days since Obama put the idea in his 2014 budget, Republicans' reactions have...
Tags: Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Greg Walden, Primaries, Parties and Movements
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Obama says his budget has 'manageable' cuts to entitlement programs
WASHINGTON -- President Obama argued for “manageable” changes to Medicare and other social safety net programs as he released his budget proposal, a plan aimed at staking out the middle ground in the stalled deficit reduction talks. “...Tags: Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, White House, U.S. Congress, Social Security
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