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GOP may seek to tie debt ceiling deal to tax code changes
WASHINGTON — In a little more than a week, the U.S. will hit its debt limit — and the maneuvering has begun against a backdrop of the mid-2011 drama that led to the nation's first-ever credit downgrade. An improving economy and higher taxes,...
Tags: Financial and Business Services, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Republican Party, Budget Control Act of 2011
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The wrong way for Washington to avoid defaulting
It's rare that the president explicitly pledges to veto a bill -- usually, the White House says the president's advisors would "recommend" a veto -- but that's what happened Tuesday. The measure in question is HR 807, the Full Faith and Credit Act, by...
Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Party, Medicare, Financial Markets, Finance
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House finally OKs Sandy aid; Senate action expected soon
WASHINGTON--Seventy-eight days after Superstorm Sandy battered the Northeast, the House on Tuesday approved $50.5 billion in disaster relief in a vote that exposed divisions within Republican ranks and foreshadowed the spending fights that lie ahead. ...
Tags: Jon Runyan, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Emergency Incidents, Parties and Movements
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Stockton Sikh temple's 100th anniversary noted in Congress
L.A. NOWThis post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details. A Northern California congressman on Tuesday honored the state’s longstanding Sikh community by formally acknowledging the Stockton temple’s 100-year anniversary in the... -
McManus: The death of the moderate Republican
Republicans just lost eight seats in the House. But if you'd wandered into the House of Representatives last week without reading the election returns, you might have concluded that the GOP won big on Nov. 6. "We have the second-largest Republican House...
Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Party, World War II (1939-1945), Environmental Issues, Trey Gowdy
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California GOP governor's race I -- Tom Campbell
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Global Warming: Ballot initiative would curb California efforts
GreenspaceSo what happens if California delays the implementation of its landmark global warming law, AB 32? The state's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office has done the math on Measure 94, a proposed ballot measure, and assessed the fallout. Its verdict? The.... -
Bipartisan Benedict Arnold
JOHN ZIEGLER hosts a weeknight talk show on KFI-AM (640) and is author of "The Death of Free Speech: How Our Broken National Dialogue Has Killed the Truth and Divided America."OF ALL THE buzzwords in politics that have taken on a life of their own, "bipartisanship" is, without a doubt, the most overrated and misunderstood. A spot-on example of the absurd "bipartisan" folly transpired this week at a USC-sponsored conference...Tags: Weather, Republican Party, Environmental Issues, University of Southern California, Paris Hilton
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For state GOP, November may be the cruelest month
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn a city where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces criticism for not being liberal enough, California Republicans gathered this weekend to repair deep divides over how to appeal to an electorate that continues to trend away from the steady diet of...Tags: Barack Obama, National or Ethnic Minorities, Republican Party, Justice System, Bill Jones
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Auburn Dam may really be dead this time
Use it or lose it is the rule of California water rights, and after 43 years, the would-be Auburn Dam -- subject of one of the state's bitterest water feuds -- is about to lose it.
The proposed plug on the gold-sprinkled American River northeast of...Tags: North Fork, Jack Abramoff, Floods, Regional Authority, National Government
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Redestricting a Democratic supermajority
Redistricting reform is almost certainly dead for the rest of this decade. After all the hype that this was the year that Sacramento lawmakers would finally relinquish their power to draw the state's congressional and legislative districts -- and hand...Tags: Referenda, Voting, Republican Party, Laws, Democratic Party
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