Dec 06 Watch An Argument Against Seeking Fiscal Fix in Cuts to Medicare and Social Security An Argument Against Seeking Fiscal Fix in Cuts to Medicare and Social Security… Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch White House Debt Ceiling Authority Demand Roils Senate Republicans White House, Republicans Focus Budget Debates on Medicare and Social Security… Continue watching
Dec 06 How the 'Fiscal Cliff' Could Impact Health Care By mcarey The impending "fiscal cliff" is a package of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes set to kick in next month unless President Barack Obama and Capitol Hill agree on a way to stop them. Negotiations to avert the cuts are… Continue reading
Dec 06 Obama, Boehner Resume Fiscal Talks With Phone Call President Obama addressed business leaders during a meeting at the headquarters of the Business Roundtable on December 5. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images. With both of their opening bids essentially pronounced dead on arrival, President Obama and House… Continue reading
Dec 05 Watch Obama Rejects Future Debt Ceiling Limits as Fiscal Cliff Negotiation Point Obama Rejects Future Debt Ceiling Limits as Fiscal Cliff Negotiation Point… Continue watching
Dec 05 Judy's Notebook: Why Gridlock Isn't Going Away I escaped from Washington for about a week and a half after Thanksgiving, grateful for a change of scenery after the exciting but long election season. Before I left, President Obama and congressional Republicans were edging toward the "fiscal cliff,"… Continue reading
Dec 05 Obama Takes Fiscal Plan to Business Leaders The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is lit on Tuesday. The year's tree is a 65-foot spruce from the White River National Forest in Colorado. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. The "fiscal cliff" will remain an outside game Wednesday,… Continue reading
Dec 04 Watch Obama Says No Deal If Fiscal Plan Doesn't Include Tax Rate Increase on the Rich Obama Says No Deal Without Tax Rate Increase on the Rich… Continue watching
Dec 04 In His Final Days, LBJ Agonized Over His Legacy Lyndon Johnson, shown in this August 1972 photo from the LBJ Presidential Library. It is 4:46 p.m. on Jan. 2, 1973, and Lyndon Johnson speaks to Richard Nixon for the last time ever. Nixon calls LBJ at the Ranch to… Continue reading
Dec 04 White House Dismisses GOP Plan on Fiscal Cliff President Obama. File photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Four days after having its initial offer to avert the year-end fiscal cliff rejected by House Republicans, the Obama administration got to return the favor Monday when GOP lawmakers put… Continue reading