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... 10 years. Another proposal up for consideration, a Republican plan for a net tax revenue increase of nearly $300 billion in exchange for lower tax rates. House Speaker John Boehner called that a fair offer. REP. JOHN BOEHNER, R-Ohio, speaker of the House: I think that reforming our tax ...
... of her experience with Mr. Cain. "It's unpleasant and it's sensational and she does not want to do that," he said in an interview. He added, "She has a life to live and a career, and she doesn't want to become another Anita Hill." Chris Wilson, who ...
... In fact, two Democratic senators who voted with their colleagues to end debate and move to a final vote said they would vote against the bill.) The White House had been making a full-court press this week for the bill. President Obama touted it constantly on his three-day ...
... talk about this compromise issue or this "coming to some sort of agreement" issue. He said, "Barack Obama" -- speaking of his own plan: "Barack Obama hates it. Harry Reid hates it. Nancy Pelosi hates it. Now, why would Republicans want to be on the side of Barack Obama, Harry Reid ...
... lousy loans. And Democrats argue strenuously that the goal of home ownership was wholly bi-partisan, from the days of Herbert Hoover and FDR to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, as journalist Alyssa Katz has explained on our show and these pages. In "Reckless Endangerment" and in the extended ...
... an example think of (House Speaker)Tip O'Neil and Ronald Reagan in (19)83 when they fixed Social Security for a generation, think of Bill Clinton and the Republicans on welfare reform in (19)96. Think of Bill Clinton and the Republicans actually balancing the budget in the late ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Libyan warplanes carried out repeated airstrikes today, and fears of a rising humanitarian crisis grew. We have two reports from Independent Television News, starting with Bill Neely in Misrata, a western town surrounded by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. BILL NEELY: Colonel Gadhafi's got ...
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer speaks to reporters Thursday at the Capitol. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images. At 11:59 p.m. EST Thursday, moments before the House's consideration of President Obama's $858 billion tax cut package was about to slip into a second day, the tally was called. "On this vote, the yeas are 277, the...
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senate Foreign Relations ranking Republican Dick Lugar, R-Ind., discuss New START at the Capitol on Wednesday. Photo by Douglas Graham/Roll Call. President Obama will meet on Thursday with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, three former U.S. secretaries of state, top senators on...
More than six months after President Obama signed the health care reform bill, how is the overhaul impacting -- or not impacting -- the American public?
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