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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: Carl Levin, White House, Paul Ryan, Benjamin L. Cardin, Parties and Movements
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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: Budgets and Budgeting, Parties and Movements, Television Industry, Government Health Care, NBC (tv network)
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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: Parties and Movements, Budgets and Budgeting, Government Health Care, Elections, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Paul Ryan drinks deeply from pool of Social Security lies
I'd like to offer my thanks to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) for doing so much to validate my list of the five biggest lies about "entitlement" programs published on Sunday. Ryan's proposed federal budget, released Tuesday,...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Paul Ryan, Career and Workplace, Government Health Care, Social Security
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Lawmakers: Obama wooing might break budget logjam
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers said Sunday they welcome President Barack Obama's courtship and suggested the fresh engagement between the White House and Congress might help yield solutions to the stubborn budget battle that puts Americans'...
Tags: Television Industry, U.S. Department of Defense, Justice System, Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan
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House GOP seeks to defuse debt crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — With tacit support from President Barack Obama, House Republicans were moving Wednesday to try to defuse a potential debt crisis with legislation to prevent an economy-rattling fiscal crisis for at least four months. The GOP...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Department of Defense, Patty Murray, John Fleming, Elections
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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: Television Industry, Elections, Google Inc., Bob Schieffer, Dick Durbin
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House approves short-term suspension of debt ceiling
WASHINGTON – House Republicans approved a temporary suspension of the $16.4-trillion ceiling on the nation’s debt Wednesday, allowing the federal government to continue borrowing through spring while Washington shifts to more ambitious...Tags: Mitch McConnell, Budgets and Budgeting, Parties and Movements, Government Health Care, Patty Murray
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Ryan says deep budget cuts likely unavoidable
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Budget Committee says Republicans will oppose tax increases and, as a result, deep, unpopular budget cuts will likely take effect. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin told NBC's "Meet the Press" on...
Tags: Paul Ryan, NBC (tv network), Washington, DC, Republican Party, Government Debt
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McManus: The GOP's tactical retreat
A well-organized retreat is said to be one of the most difficult military maneuvers: You're under enemy fire, your troops are likely to be demoralized, and you've got to avoid a rout. That why House Republicans' orderly withdrawal last week from an...Tags: Parties and Movements, Budgets and Budgeting, Government Health Care, Polls, Eric Cantor
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The Democrats' sequester proposals: You can't be serious
Members of Congress left Washington on Friday for their annual Presidents Day state (or district) work period, planning to resume toward the end of the month. The break means Congress can't do anything about the looming sequester -- roughly $85 billion in...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Government Health Care, John Boehner, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., U.S. House Committee on Armed Services
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More of the same
President Barack Obama spoke to the nation Tuesday night calling for action on a sweeping agenda that included the economy, guns, immigration, taxes and climate change. New initiatives included proposals to improve preschool programs and voting, boost...Tags: Paul Ryan, Career and Workplace, Elections, Labor Legislation, Barack Obama
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Jan 27, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Feb 15, 2013
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Feb 13, 2013
|Story| Daily American
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