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Piling on more debt
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats in the US Senate have broken the law for four years by not passing a budget. This is the height of criminal gross negligence as US debt passes $16.5 trillion and approaches $17 trillion, as 46 cents of...Tags: Harry Reid, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Elections
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Senate panel to approve budget sparing safety net
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting on the Senate's first budget since President Barack Obama took office, a Democratic-led panel is moving toward party-line approval of a fiscal blueprint that would trim the budget deficit while protecting safety net programs...
Tags: Tom Cole, U.S. Congress, Medicare, Health Insurance, Elections
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Unbalanced budgeting
In case anyone has missed the dueling budget proposals out this week from Rep. Paul Ryan on the Republican side and Sen. Patty Murray for the Democrats, don't fret. You could easily have slept through the last four months and missed nothing. They are...Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress, Medicare, Elections
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Which budget is better? Republicans' or Democrats'?
Republicans and Democrats introduced rival 10-year budget plans Tuesday. Republicans said their plan, again drafted by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, would balance the budget in a decade, in part by cutting spending on Medicare and Medicaid and...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Paul Ryan, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Congress, Medicare
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CBO: Budget deficit estimated at $845B
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal budget deficit will drop below $1 trillion for the first time in President Barack Obama's tenure in office, a new report said Tuesday. The Congressional Budget Office analysis said the government will run a $845...Tags: Career and Workplace, U.S. Congress, Health Insurance Cost, Medicare, Health Insurance
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'No budget, no pay' advances despite reservations
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an earlier era, a move like the one engineered by House GOP leaders to pass a "no budget, no pay" measure probably would have been stopped in its tracks. But with Congress' approval ratings in the gutter, House lawmakers...
Tags: Jerrold Nadler, Violence Against Women Act, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress, Elections
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Could Washington, DC become the 51st state?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware has introduced a bill that would make the District of Columbia the nation's 51st state. While the bill has little chance of passing, the introduction shows that Carper is taking up the cause of...
Tags: Dick Durbin, Joe Lieberman, U.S. Congress, Barbara Boxer, Thomas R. Carper
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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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress
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Ducks are us
On the face of it, few things carry a more apt name than today's lame duck Congress. Indeed, how lame is it that after two years of raw partisanship and paralyzing inactivity, we believe two legislative bodies that haven't agreed on what day it is...Tags: Kent Conrad, U.S. Senate, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress, Medicare
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Farming: Dealing with lame ducks
Farm and Food FileOn the face of it, few things carry a more apt name than today’s “lame duck” Congress. Indeed, how lame is it that after two years of raw partisanship and paralyzing inactivity, we believe two legislative bodies that haven’t...Tags: Kent Conrad, U.S. Senate, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress, Medicare
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Sen. Murray on the 'Fiscal Cliff': Raising taxes on wealthiest 'has to be part of it'
Q13 Fox News political analystAs the so-called U.S. “fiscal cliff” approaches, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is taking a hard line, insisting that Republicans agree to tax increases as part of any deal. “It’s time for the wealthiest Americans to pay their...Tags: John Boehner, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Politics
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Donnelly beats Mourdock to win U.S. Senate seat for Indiana
Democrat Rep. Joe Donnelly beat Richard Mourdock to win the open U.S. Senate seat for Indiana, projects Fox59. The race attracted national attention, first for the defeat of sitting Sen. Richard Lugar in the GOP primary and then when Mourdock said...
Tags: Richard Mourdock, U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Richard Lugar, Politics
Mar 15, 2013
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Mar 14, 2013
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Mar 13, 2013
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Mar 11, 2013
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Feb 6, 2013
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Jan 28, 2013
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Jan 24, 2013
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Jan 23, 2013
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Dec 7, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
Dec 1, 2012
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Nov 12, 2012
|Story| KCPQ-LTV
Nov 6, 2012
|Column| WXIN-LTV
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