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... there is no guarantee that tight education budgets wouldn't be stretched even further in coming years. Weigh In: How concerned are you about the fiscal cliff's impact on education funding? Do you think education is or should be a priority in fiscal cliff negotiations? Follow @newshouramgrad !function(d ...
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. House Speaker John Boehner has yet to ink a deal with President Obama, but the Republican already faces an unruly, wary caucus. GOP lawmakers find themselves in a far less desirable position from two years ago, when Mr. Obama, humbled by losses in the 2010...
Ettore Sottsass, Summa 19 Electronic Printing Calculator, 1970. Manufactured by Ing. C. Olivetti & C. S.p.A., Italy. Photo courtesy of the Denver Art Museum. As we all watch the folks in Washington wrangle over how to avert the fiscal cliff, here's how to look at the potential impact ...
President Obama speaks after the lighting of the National Christmas Tree last week. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. The negotiations are starting to get serious. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner huddled privately Sunday to outline their positions and to find middle ground on tax cuts and on ways to avert going over the...
Shields and Brooks on Jobs Report, 'Fiscal Cliff' Negotiations and Jim DeMint
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 ongoing and both sides have exchanged offers. The president and ...
Obama Rejects Future Debt Ceiling Limits as Fiscal Cliff Negotiation Point
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 forward a plan with $800 billion in fresh revenues but ...
... than $900 billion in mandatory spending and another $300 billion in discretionary spending. Monday NewsHour senior correspondent Gwen Ifill will speak with Bowles about the fiscal cliff negotiations and whether Congress can strike a deal in the the next few weeks. Read more on the fiscal cliff in this primer.
House Speaker John Boehner. File photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images. With House Speaker John Boehner and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner both digging in their heels on the Sunday talk shows, there was no sign of give in the stalemate over the year-end fiscal cliff. "Right now, I would say we're nowhere, period. We're nowhere," Boehner...
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