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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: Health Insurance Cost, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Elections, Medicare
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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: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Luis Gutierrez, Chuck Schumer, Chuck Grassley, Politics
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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: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Elections, Parties and Movements, Market and Exchange
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Letters: The GOP's fresh faces
Re "The GOP's fantasy lineup," Opinion, April 7 It is hard to understand why political pundits talk about the demise of the Republican Party when it has such a strong group of future young leaders, as mentioned in Doyle McManus' column. To wit: Kentucky...Tags: Marco Rubio, Regional Authority, Bobby Jindal, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton
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Goldberg: 'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Political Systems, Politics, Parties and Movements, Michael Bloomberg
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McManus: Let's talk GOP and fantasy politics
Almost four years ago, long before the 2012 presidential campaign heated up, CNN took a poll to learn who Republicans might choose as their party's next nominee. There were two clear front-runners: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov....
Tags: Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Politics, Rand Paul, Chris Christie
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Remove Medicare's straitjacket
Now that the budget "sequester" is in effect, Congress is shifting its attention to entitlement reform. There's simply no way to achieve long-term reductions in federal spending without touching the big health programs, particularly Medicare. Although...
Tags: Marketing, Health Insurance Cost, Genentech Inc., Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Science and Technology
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No debt agreement, no break
With no deal in sight to curb our growing national debt, America is going broke. So what do our representatives in Congress plan to do about it? Take a two-week break. Are they trying to see whether their abysmal 13% approval rating can sink any lower?...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Politics, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Let the Senate vote-a-rama begin
WASHINGTON – Step aside, stately Senate. Say hello to vote-a-rama. On Friday, the usually lonely floor of the U.S. Senate was thrown open for that most rare of occurrences – a free-for-all frenzy of amendment-making, which is required for...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate, Budgets and Budgeting, Arts and Culture, Ceremonies
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Boehner solicits House GOP input on budget wars
WASHINGTON – House Speaker John A. Boehner wants his Republican troops to think deep thoughts. As House Republicans prepare for the next budget showdown with President Obama, the Ohioan, in a letter to rank-and-file lawmakers Thursday, drew on...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Budget Control Act of 2011, Politics, White House, Parties and Movements
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House defeats alternative budgets
WASHINGTON – Think of it as what could have been: Alternative visions of the federal budget from progressives, conservatives and other rank-and-file lawmakers that have little chance of passing but offer another view of priorities. As House...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Elections, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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GOP approves Paul Ryan's austere, balanced budget
WASHINGTON – The austere House budget drafted by Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) that has come to define the Republican Party was approved Thursday on a strict party-line vote, as the GOP argues that a balanced budget should now be Washington’s top...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, U.S. Senate, Health Insurance, Budgets and Budgeting, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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