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Now on the table: Entitlements
At a Republican presidential debate in 2011, all eight candidates on the stage said they would reject a budget deal that raised taxes even if it had $10 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increases. At Tuesday's protest, I put the reverse question...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Government Health Care, Medicare, Politics, Interior Policy
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Can Obama sell 'chained CPI'?
President Barack Obama didn't release his proposed budget for 2014 until Wednesday, but liberals and the AARP have been howling all week about something they expected to be in it. What has our president done to provoke such outrage among his supporters?...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Market and Exchange, Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages, Social Security
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Detail emerge on proposed Obama budget plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as it adds fuel to battles over taxes and Social Security, President Barack Obama's budget will reprise lots of smaller bore proposals that have gone nowhere in a gridlocked Washington. Ideas like higher Transportation...
Tags: Washington, DC, Public Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush, Social Security
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Obama sends Congress $3.77 trillion spending plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.77 trillion spending blueprint that seeks to achieve an elusive "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes further on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit...
Tags: Washington, DC, Personal Weapon Control, Public Finance, U.S. Senate, Prescription Drugs
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McManus: Can Obama sell 'chained CPI'?
President Obama won't release his proposed budget for 2014 until Wednesday, but liberals and AARP have been howling all week about something they expect to be in it. What has our president done to provoke such outrage among his supporters? He's...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Market and Exchange, Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages, Social Security
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Obama's budget plan draws fire from both sides
WASHINGTON — The budget that President Obama is scheduled to release next week drew attacks Friday from both the left and right — a reaction that White House aides appeared to welcome as they sought to portray the plan as a middle-of-the-...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Washington, DC, Market and Exchange, U.S. Senate, Social Security
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At least one thing in Washington works: the Nationals
Karl Marx is credited with saying that religion is "the opium of the people." But here in the nation's capital, baseball is the drug of choice that rescues political junkies from the unpleasant realities around them. Currently providing relief from...
Tags: National Football League, Washington Nationals, Baseball, American League, Philosophy
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Obama will propose cuts to entitlement programs in new budget
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON – As part of his new budget, President Obama will propose cutting Social Security and other government benefits by lowering the cost-of-living adjustment, putting a key GOP negotiating demand into a formal White House proposal for the...Tags: Public Finance, U.S. Senate, Labor Markets, Mitch McConnell, Politics
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Obama seeks deal, proposes cuts to Social Security
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a renewed attempt to strike a broad deficit-...
Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Washington, DC, Public Finance, U.S. Senate, Social Security
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Washington gets its badly needed fix
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Karl Marx is credited with saying that religion is "the opium of the people." But here in the nation's capital, baseball is the drug of choice that rescues political junkies from the unpleasant realities around them. Currently providing...Tags: National Football League, Washington Nationals, Baseball, American League, Politics
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The president's feeble gesture
"President Obama plans to give up 5 percent of his salary this year to draw attention to the financial sacrifice of more than 1 million federal employees who will be furloughed." -- The Washington Post, April 4 "Here's the plan. We get the warhead and...
Tags: Washington, DC, Iraq War (2003-2011), U.S. Senate, Bill Clinton, The Washington Post
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Conservatives mourn, praise 'hero' Margaret Thatcher
WASHINGTON -- As news of the death of Margaret Thatcher came in Monday, tributes flowed from conservative leaders across the Capitol, showing the lasting influence the "Iron Lady" on the personal careers of many American lawmakers. “Lady...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Bill Clinton, Lindsey O. Graham, Political Systems, Government
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