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... in the first months of the year. He had the flu and missed the Senate's Jan. 1 (2013) vote to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff of rising taxes and falling government spending, then missed several votes two months later because of leg pain. A chest cold kept him ...
... parses retirement speculation in light of members' first quarter numbers. The head of Progress Kentucky attended a meeting at the White House to discuss the fiscal cliff days before launching a Twitter offensive against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Democrats have since distanced themselves from the group's ...
... for 2014 was delivered two months late; it was "due" in February, but the White House explained that the prolonged wrangling with Congress over the fiscal cliff -- and, yes, the sequester -- delayed the process. Knowing that presidential budget proposals are almost always pronounced dead on arrival as soon as they ...
... report on some of the broad outlines of the Democratic proposal: The new Senate Budget Committee chairwoman, Patty Murray, will propose additional revenue beyond the fiscal-cliff deal, as well as more spending on education, transportation infrastructure, and job training, according to aides and Democratic members familiar with the discussions ...
With all the talk of the fiscal cliff and the sequester, I respond to a reader who wants to know if the economic dominoes are likely to fall, causing a government default, and I weigh in on why the NewsHour rarely reports on other stock indexes besides the Dow Jones ...
... his ideas. He laid the same framework of spending cuts that he offered to Boehner in December in their negotiations to avert the year-end "fiscal cliff." Obama's offer included more than $500 billion in cuts to health programs in addition to the new revenue from capping tax deductions ...
Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images While physicians have sidestepped drastic Medicare payment cuts for 2013, doctors' groups and lawmakers are gearing up for yet another battle to scrap the formula that forces Congress to consider the "doc fix" on a yearly basis. For doctors, the nail-biter has become a familiar but frustrating rite. Lawmakers invariably...
President Barack Obama addressed sequestration in a press conference from the White House today. "This is not going to be an apocalypse. ... It's just dumb. And it's going to hurt," he said, referring to the $85 billion in cuts to government programs set to kick in Friday evening. There was much discussion in Washington...
Two competing bills aimed at averting huge spending cuts failed Thursday in the Senate, virtually assuring that the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts will kick in after Friday night's deadline. Photo by Sul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images With the U.S. Capitol emptied out for the weekend, the focus of official Washington on Friday will turn to the...
The man in my audience at Ohio University this week was exasperated. Why, he wondered, can't Washington get its act together? Why indeed? I can't say I had a good answer. But it was clear that -- in Athens, Ohio, at least -- the latest budget cutting debate is going over about as well as...
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