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Health-care fight: Obama vs. insurers
The Swampby Mark Silva A full-bore fight is on to the finish: With a frontal assault on the insurance industry for sponsoring "misleading'' information, President Barack Obama today calls the passage of health-insurance reform "the great test'' of the "change''...Tags: Politics, Health Insurance, National Government, Lobbying, Consumer Electronics Industry
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Weekly remarks: GOP's Kevin Brady and Obama on jobs, deficit and healthcare myths
Top of the TicketTexas Republican and Illinois Democrat argue over claims that the other side is making about their policies.... -
Should Treasury Secretary Geithner be fired?
Top of the TicketPresident Obama is just back from an eight-day trip to Asia. Perhaps he hoped to sleep in a bit today. But amid growing discontent over the administration's handling of the economy -- and new revelations about misspent or at least...... -
Bernanke warns that premature ending of Fed's stimulus efforts would carry substantial risks
AP Economics WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to slow its extraordinary stimulus programs. Reducing the Fed's efforts to keep borrowing rates...Tags: Washington, DC, S&P 500, Federal Reserve, Finance, Labor Day
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Ousted IRS chief defends against partisan charges
WASHINGTON — The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for the agency's "foolish mistakes" in singling out conservative groups for intrusive and time-consuming scrutiny, but said that the effort was not driven by partisan...
Tags: Thomas E Price, Politics, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Jack Lew, Paul Ryan
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IRS scandal: Lawmakers accuse IRS officials of lying
Tribune staff and wire reportsWASHINGTON -- Lawmakers accused leaders of the Internal Revenue Service of lying on Friday as they opened the first in a series of investigative hearings about the tax collection agency's targeting of conservative groups. Republicans and Democrats said...Tags: U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Politics, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Political Fundraising
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US Republicans vow to fight for spending cuts as deficit shrinks
Reuters* Lawmakers reaffirm 10-year balanced budget goal * Seek to tie debt limit hike to tax reform By David Lawder and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives vowed on Wednesday to press on with their...Tags: Politics, George W. Bush, James Lankford, Paul Ryan, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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U.S. House set to pass tactical Republican debt bill
Reuters* White House has said it will veto bill * House Republicans are mulling debt ceiling strategy * Bill would allow U.S. Treasury to borrow more funds By Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans are expected to pass a...Tags: Politics, Washington, DC, Labor Legislation, Tim Huelskamp, Finance
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Analysis: Minimum wage plan a new test for Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — If anything illustrated President Barack Obama's new sense of self-confidence, it was his State of the Union call for an increase in the national minimum wage. For much of the past two years, the president and his aides have...
Tags: Politics, Washington, DC, Labor Legislation, State of the Union Address, Business
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Congress ushering in new members, with old divide
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is ushering in the new and the old — dozens of eager freshmen determined to change Washington and the harsh reality of another stretch of bitterly divided government. The 113th Congress will convene Thursday at the...Tags: Politics, Washington, DC, Ted Cruz, Mark Kirk, Scott P. Brown
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The Fed's mission creep
In the 1920s, in the wee small hours of the mornings, employees at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas sang while they worked. One, Jack Culpepper, went into vaudeville, where he teamed up with a dance partner named Ginger. They married and performed as...Tags: Washington, DC, Politics, George W. Bush, Ginger Rogers, Business
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Bernanke signals no imminent steps to aid economy
WASHINGTON (AP)— Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Federal Reserve is prepared to take further steps to lift the U.S. economy if it weakens. But he didn’t signal any imminent action in testimony before a congressional panel Thursday. Bernanke...
Tags: Washington, DC, Politics, Inflation and Deflation, Federal Reserve, Finance
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