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Postal Service dying from 1,000 cuts and a GOP stab in the back
As AOL used to say, “You’ve got mail!” But maybe not on Saturdays if the mail you are looking for is being delivered by the much-maligned “snail mail” of the United States Postal Service. On Wednesday, the USPS announced...
Tags: Politics, Mail Order Industry, FedEx Corporation, U.S. Postal Service, Republican Party
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Obama ramps up pressure on GOP to avert budget cuts
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON -- With less than two weeks before across-the-board spending cuts are to begin taking effect, President Obama is cranking up pressure on congressional Republicans to agree to a Democratic plan that would temporarily block the deep reductions....Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Public Finance, Warren Buffett, Parties and Movements
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Cantor signals shift on immigration as he lays out GOP agenda
WASHINGTON -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor outlined a kinder, gentler House Republican agenda for the coming term that puts a greater emphasis on kitchen table issues, and called for a path to citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. Two...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Budgets and Budgeting, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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McManus: President Obama 3.0
We got a good long look at the second-term edition of Barack Obama last week, and he's sounding more like Bill Clinton every day. It's not all that surprising. Over the last two years, Obama has turned repeatedly to Clinton for counsel. And Obama was...
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Ronald Reagan, U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Party
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Debt ceiling bill clears Senate; Obama expected to sign
WASHINGTON – Legislation to suspend the nation’s debt ceiling for a few months is on its way to the White House for President Obama’s signature, clearing the Senate on Thursday after a series of failed votes on Republican-backed...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Public Finance, Republican Party
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Obama's jobs council peters out, plans 'expanded' business outreach
WASHINGTON -- A day after learning that the economy had contracted in the last quarter of 2012, the White House confirmed Thursday that its jobs council was closing up shop, prompting a fresh round of criticism from Republicans over President Obama’...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Politics, Barack Obama, General Electric Company, Parties and Movements
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Letters: The GOP can't stop losing
Re "Obama sells economic ideas, but GOP resists," Feb. 14 This is weird. Even though the GOP was soundly defeated in the last election, its elected officials continue to think they had a really good strategy to take back the White House. Their plan...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Elections, White House, Mitt Romney
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Boehner's Boogergate: Another stupid media trick
If you followed #SOTU on Twitter while watching the State of the Union address on Tuesday, you may have been surprised by how many smart pundits -- conservative and liberal -- spent more time obsessing over President Obama's and House Speaker John A....
Tags: State of the Union Address, Barack Obama, Unions, Politics, Chocolate Cake
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Obama on immigration reform: 'Now's the time'
LAS VEGAS -- President Obama on Tuesday outlined his vision for reforming the nation’s immigration policy, calling for a clear path to citizenship for illegal residents who pay their taxes, learn English and abide by the law. In a speech at a high...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Politics, U.S. Senate, Justice System, White House
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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: U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Public Finance
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House group accelerates work on immigration bill
WASHINGTON – A secretive group of House members from both parties is racing to complete an immigration bill in the next two weeks with an eye toward introducing legislation before President Obama’s State of the Union address on Feb. 12, said...
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Xavier Becerra, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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House GOP shoots down minimum wage proposal
WASHINGTON – House Republicans on Wednesday shot down President Obama’s 12-hour-old proposal to raise the minimum wage. House Speaker John A. Boehner told reporters that the president’s call to raise the federal minimum wage $1.75 an...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Employment, Republican Party
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