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Congress votes on a mega-budget deal this week, potentially avoiding another fiscal cliff. (Sidenote: meanwhile an Italian town seems to be solving an actual falling-off-the-cliff problem.) This inspired us to take a closer look at the federal cash flow. Test what you know about how the ...
... he set a high-stakes vote on a deadline when Congress was going out of town. That worked with things like the debt limit, the fiscal cliff. Did not work this time. It was blocked by Rand Paul and some Democrats, notably Ron Wyden of Oregon, some other conservatives as ...
... to enactment, without a single Republican vote. Other times, however, Obama and Pelosi worked around Reid. That was largely the case in resolving the 2013 "fiscal cliff" dilemma. When negotiations ground to a halt, raising the possibility of tax hikes on nearly all working Americans, Vice President Joe Biden and ...
... debate over income equality is one that Democrats have won previously, including in Obama's victory over Romney in the 2012 presidential campaign and the fiscal cliff fight with Congress that led to the raising of George W. Bush-era tax rates for the wealthiest Americans. However, Obama no longer ...
... the core. Those who know him say, yes, he is driven to win, but they insist his focus is to govern. Example? Deals over the fiscal cliff that McConnell made with Vice President Biden. TRENT LOTT, Former Senate Majority Leader: If you go back and look over the last three ...
... market peak to trough fell 55 – 57 percent. And then Greece collapses. And then we have the debt showdown and debt debacle here, and the fiscal cliff. And now you have worries about electoral uncertainty, and there are whispers of global deflation. There are lots of things at play, and ...
... swing five days in a row by 100 points or more. Plus, the S&P 500 dropped this week to its lowest point since the fiscal cliff showdown of 2012. So, what's happening here? Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University and the Brookings Institution, is here to answer ...
... and crises on several vacations, including Ted Kennedy’s death, the underwear bomber, and even flying back to Washington to try and deal with the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. Other presidents have had to deal with crises, too -- from Ronald Reagan when a Korean jetliner was shot down to Bill Clinton ...
ome tax revenues in the first quarter of this year fell by .4 percent, and states are pointing to the fiscal cliff. Just two weeks ahead of Kentucky’s primary and a month before Mississippi’s, the Senate Conservatives Fund has gone silent in those states, diverting their dwindling cash ...
2014 is a year of auditioning, positioning, networking and just plain hard work for people who might run for president in 2016. There's plenty to do, and the pace has quickened since The Associated Press last took a broad look at preparations for a potential campaign. Here's a look at one prospective candidate.
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