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A man walks past the U.S. Capitol building on Monday. Photo by Joshua Roberts/Reuters. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are getting closer to a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, but they are not there yet. The president put forward another proposal Monday that called for ...
... army infantry college near the northern city of Aleppo. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met today, amid signs of possible movement in the fiscal cliff negotiations. It was widely reported Boehner gave ground on Friday and offered to raise tax rates for people earning more than $1 million ...
... of this edition of This Week on the Hill was delayed due to the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., Friday. U.S. Budget Blues Your obligatory fiscal cliff negotiations update The White House and House Republicans exchanged deals on Monday, Dec. 10. We know the White House deal is (slightly) less ...
... to 1965, when Medicare was created." NEWSHOUR ROUNDUP On Friday's NewsHour, Mark Shields and David Brooks talked about the shooting in Newtown and the fiscal cliff. Watch here or below: EmbedVideo(5224, 482, 304); Our primer on the elections in Japan. Colleen Shalby dives in to J.R.R ...
... wondering.) Later in the day, I returned to Washington. The president and the speaker of the House were still wrestling at the edge of the fiscal cliff. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice had withdrawn from consideration for secretary of state. And I was reminded of what Senator Collins surely knew ...
... hasn't been seen since 2008. It was a down day for Wall Street, as investors steered clear of stocks because of uncertainty over the fiscal cliff negotiations between Congress and the White House. The Dow Jones industrial average lost more than 35 points to close at 13,135. The ...
... did I guess this afternoon with a CBS affiliate, I believe in Chicago, where he said, among other things, he's hopeful of getting the fiscal cliff resolved and saying it shouldn't be that hard. That's a contrast with the kind of language we're hearing from the ...
... going to give up our ability to control the purse. And the fact is, is that the debt limit ought to be used to bring fiscal sanity to Washington, D.C. KWAME HOLMAN: As the deadline to reach a deal to avert the fiscal cliff draws ever closer, Republicans say ...
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