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    California Hospital Chain Eyed for Possibly Bilking Medicare for Millions

    Dec 19, 2011 11:34 PM EDT

    ... for those opportunities whenever possible. LANCE WILLIAMS: It turns out many diseases share similar symptoms, but more severe diseases are reimbursed by Medicare at higher rates. ANNEKE DOTY: He encouraged the physicians to stop documenting syncope, which is fainting or dizzy spell, and instead use the term autonomic nerve dysfunction ...

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    Congressional Deficit Panel Gridlock Persists as Deadline Nears

    Nov 15, 2011 11:17 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    Cain Launches Blame Game, Regroups on Strategy

    Nov 03, 2011 12:56 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    Senate Blocks State Aid for Teachers, First Responders

    Oct 21, 2011 12:48 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    Plouffe: We Won't Accept Boehner's Short-Term Deal

    Jul 27, 2011 10:03 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    Joseph Stiglitz, Barney Frank Respond to 'Reckless Endangerment' Allegations

    Jul 01, 2011 06:53 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    McConnell Rules Out Tax Increases In Debt Limit Deal

    May 12, 2011 07:05 PM EDT

    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was upbeat Thursday after he and other Republican senators met with President Obama at the White House to discuss the conditions under which Congress will vote on increasing the country's debt limit, but repeated his position -- shared by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio -- that any increase in...

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    Libyan Rebels Hold Oil Port of Ras Lanuf, But for How Long?

    Mar 07, 2011 11:02 PM EDT

    Pro-Gadhafi and opposition forces continued to clash Monday in Libya. An air strike against opposition fighters attempted to push back rebels as they advanced toward Tripoli. Bill Neeley and Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News report.

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    Tax Cut Deal Passes in Late-Night Vote, Heads to President Obama

    Dec 17, 2010 01:26 PM EDT

    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...

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    Obama Administration to Make Push for Ratification of New START

    Nov 18, 2010 01:16 PM EDT

    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...