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Senate poised to debate gun control measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control efforts in Congress cleared a significant hurdle Wednesday as the Senate prepared to open what could be a weeks-long debate, even as opponents plotted a shift in strategy aimed at undermining a comprehensive package of...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Chuck Schumer, Mike Lee, Patrick J. Toomey
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Now on the table: Entitlements
At a Republican presidential debate in 2011, all eight candidates on the stage said they would reject a budget deal that raised taxes even if it had $10 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increases. At Tuesday's protest, I put the reverse question...
Tags: Barack Obama, Government Health Care, Politics, Bankruptcy, U.S. Senate
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Can Obama sell 'chained CPI'?
President Barack Obama didn't release his proposed budget for 2014 until Wednesday, but liberals and the AARP have been howling all week about something they expected to be in it. What has our president done to provoke such outrage among his supporters?...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Government Health Care, U.S. Congress, Social Security
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Detail emerge on proposed Obama budget plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as it adds fuel to battles over taxes and Social Security, President Barack Obama's budget will reprise lots of smaller bore proposals that have gone nowhere in a gridlocked Washington. Ideas like higher Transportation...
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Government Health Care, U.S. Congress, Social Security
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Obama sends Congress $3.77 trillion spending plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.77 trillion spending blueprint that seeks to achieve an elusive "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes further on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit...
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Interior Policy, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress
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McManus: Can Obama sell 'chained CPI'?
President Obama won't release his proposed budget for 2014 until Wednesday, but liberals and AARP have been howling all week about something they expect to be in it. What has our president done to provoke such outrage among his supporters? He's...
Tags: Barack Obama, Government Health Care, Politics, U.S. Congress, Social Security
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No deal: Last-ditch meeting yields no new plan to avoid cuts
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and congressional leaders huddled in the Oval Office on Friday morning but the last-ditch effort failed to produce a compromise to forestall $85 billion in automatic spending cuts all sides say they want to avoid. The...Tags: Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell, Politics, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
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At least one thing in Washington works: the Nationals
Karl Marx is credited with saying that religion is "the opium of the people." But here in the nation's capital, baseball is the drug of choice that rescues political junkies from the unpleasant realities around them. Currently providing relief from...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Miami Marlins, National League, Washington Nationals
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Voting for women, and against violence
After more than a year of bitter partisan fighting, Congress on Thursday finally reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act, including new provisions that will extend the law's protections for gay, lesbian, transgender and Native American victims of...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Politics, Justice System, Sex Crimes, Judges
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As budget cuts loom, is government shutdown next?
WASHINGTON (AP) — With big, automatic budget cuts about to kick in, House Republicans are turning to mapping strategy for the next showdown just a month away, when a government shutdown instead of just a slowdown will be at stake. Both topics...
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Chuck Schumer, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
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How budget cuts could affect you
Automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect Friday are expected to touch a vast range of government services. Some examples: DEFENSE One of the Navy's premiere warships, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, sits pier-side in Norfolk, Va.,...Tags: Barack Obama, Government Health Care, Politics, Defense Intelligence Agency, Unemployment
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The president's feeble gesture
"President Obama plans to give up 5 percent of his salary this year to draw attention to the financial sacrifice of more than 1 million federal employees who will be furloughed." -- The Washington Post, April 4 "Here's the plan. We get the warhead and...
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, U.S. Congress, Iraq War (2003-2011), U.S. Senate
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