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... not so surely, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle seem to grasp this. Every day, both sides appear to be backing away from the fiscal default cliff. President Obama periodically trots out a doomsday scenario that predicts a stuttering economy could come to a grinding halt. And House Speaker ...
... re just going to get the same posturing we have gotten over the past year as far as the big picture, as far as the fiscal year-end cliff. The real question, though -- they did talk also during this hoagie summit -- they did talk about things they can get done ...
... you had some very tough words for this budget today. You called it absolute fiction, and you said it will push us further off the cliff of fiscal irresponsibility. Let's start with the first charge. What's fictitious about it? SEN. KENT CONRAD: What's fictitious about it is ...
... you are unwilling to change. We had every opportunity to change. We were promised change. Rep. Bob Good (R-VA): With the Democrats driving the fiscal bus off the cliff at 100 miles an hour, we cannot simply be content to be the party that slows it down to 95 ...
... MAX RICHTMAN: Thank you so much. JUDY WOODRUFF: And we are going to be having different perspectives in the coming days. And, online, we have a report from our partners at Kaiser Health News on how the fiscal cliff could affect health care for the military and for Medicare patients.
... is that, last summer, the struggle. JUDY WOODRUFF: Why that period? BOB WOODWARD: Well, because that's when we were at the edge of the cliff. And if there was a default -- as the treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, told the president, if we don't fix this, if we don ...
... would keep federal agencies funded through Nov. 21, buying lawmakers more time to work out their differences on spending levels and policy for the coming fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. Republicans said that they were providing exactly what Democrats have insisted upon in past government shutdown battles — a clean ...
... House Republicans who were in Biden districts, districts Biden won. Hopefully, public opinion by that point will be so much against doing -- going off the cliff that some of them will break, and then they could work with the Democrats and get it passed. But that's a very tough ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: Puerto Rico went over the financial cliff this week. The U.S. territory home to more than three million people essentially filed for bankruptcy so it can restructure more than $120 billion in debt and pension obligations. It would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S ...
The White House-backed measure would create a control board that would oversee the U.S. territory's finances and could supervise some debt restructuring. Senators voted 68-32 to advance the bill to a final vote.
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