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House gives final passage to fiscal cliff bill
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - Past its own New Year's deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national "fiscal cliff" of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a struggle that...Tags: Employment, Elections, Labor Legislation, Parties and Movements, Career and Workplace
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UPDATED: Obama wins reelection over Romney
AP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama rolled to re-election Tuesday night, vanquishing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney despite a weak economy that plagued his first term and put a crimp in the middle class dreams of millions. In victory, he...Tags: Times Square, Paul Ryan, Dan Maffei, Joe Lieberman, Parties and Movements
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Congress should take blame for Obamacare
After listening to the blame games following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the overhaul of the health care law, the Republicans have been sounding as if the law was proposed, drafted and made into law by President Barack Obama. When...Tags: Healthcare Laws, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, U.S. Supreme Court
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Cross: McConnell, Clay and grand bargaining
Mitch McConnell is known nationwide as one of the sharpest players of the political game: developing strategy, messages and tactics; raising campaign money; getting re-elected senator from Kentucky; and using the arcane rules of the U.S. Senate as...Tags: Elections, Politics, Finance, Democratic Party, Barack Obama
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Winchester Sun editorial: Compromise
In the debt ceiling crisis, there is plenty of blame to go around. Each side has proposed conditions it knows the other can’t accept. President Barack Obama said there must be a commitment to close some tax loopholes for big businesses, knowing full...Tags: Politics, Elections, Mitch McConnell, Constitutional Issues, Human Interest
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It's a deal: Obama, Congress will avert default
AP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate emphatically passed emergency legislation Tuesday to avoid a first-ever government default, rushing the legislation to President Barack Obama for his signature just hours before the deadline. The vote was 74-26. Obama...Tags: Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Joe Lieberman, ABC (tv network), Michele Bachmann
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Patrick: Senator deserves credit for debt deal
With members of the Republicans’ tea party faction wanting the government to default so they could make a point and liberals among the Democrats describing discretionary spending cuts as satanic, it’s a small wonder that the two parties were...Tags: Politics, Elections, Barack Obama, White House, Democratic Party
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Right for all the wrong reasons
Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) is right to call on President Obama to follow the War Powers Act vis-a-vis Libya but for all the wrong reasons, namely political opportunism. If the president folds over the use of force in Libya, Boehner...Tags: Libya, Libyan Civil War (2011), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ohio, Republican Party
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Hamilton: Why politicians overreach
¿¿Having dodged a government shutdown for the moment, Congress is now embroiled in a burning debate over cutting the federal budget. The House has passed a bill imposing far-reaching cuts of $61 billion — dramatically slashing everything from...Tags: Politics, Elections, Career and Workplace, Human Interest, Republican Party
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Kennedy and Reagan: Two models of bipartisanship
We are a great nation, and “we do big things,” President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. While his speech didn’t match the eloquence of John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan, his message was the same as...Tags: Bill Clinton, John Sherman, Elections, Richard Nixon, Arizona
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Finally, someone proposes something about budget cuts
The formula is simple enough. Unsustainable debt plus unavailable revenue equals expense cuts. But we’re spoiled — addicted to borrowing, averse to taxes, ashamed to do without. On Wednesday, the morning after President Obama’s...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Rand Paul, Elections, Politics, Chris Christie
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Immigrant healthcare bills stump House group
WASHINGTON -- Differences over whether immigrants should be deported for fail ing to have health insurance or pay their healthcare bills have stalled a bipartisan group of House lawmakers, who blew past a self-imposed Thursday deadline as they pressed...Tags: Luis Gutierrez, Healthcare Policies, Extradition, Politics, Labor Legislation
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May 23, 2013
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