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AP analysis: Obama's budget tries to bridge political gap
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's first budget of his new term is a political straddle, aimed at enticing Republicans into a new round of deficit negotiations while trying to keep faith with Democrats who favor higher taxes in service of...
Tags: John Boehner, Government Health Care, Budgets and Budgeting, Parties and Movements, Politics
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Obama courts GOP senators, Part II
WASHINGTON – President Obama is proving to be a popular dinner host. Republican senators who dined Wednesday at the White House, the second time Obama has extended an invitation to his sometime adversaries, offered mostly positive reviews,...
Tags: Lamar Alexander, John Boozman, Budgets and Budgeting, Mike Enzi, White House
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Deal on background checks is close, Senate roll call expected Thursday
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan deal seems imminent on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, an agreement that could build support for President Barack Obama's drive to curb firearms violence. Meanwhile, the Senate is ready for an opening...
Tags: Laws, Ted Cruz, Harry Reid, Politics, Patrick J. Toomey
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Obama's budget: A put up or shut up moment for the GOP
It's facile to say that if the extreme right and left of American politics dislike something, it must be a good idea, but in the case of President Barack Obama's budget proposal, it may be true. The president is taking one more stab at a "grand bargain"...Tags: Government Health Care, Budgets and Budgeting, Parties and Movements, Politics, White House
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Gun control deserves a vote
Four months after 20 children were gunned down in Newtown, Conn., families of the dead are pleading with members of Congress to make it harder for criminals and the mentally disturbed to obtain firearms. That will happen only if a sufficient number of...
Tags: Harry Reid, Politics, Patrick J. Toomey, Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Congress
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Secret tape of McConnell bashing Ashley Judd: Anatomy of a smear
Mother Jones strikes again. The magazine that brought us the “47%” speech that killed off Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy came out Tuesday with a recording of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and some of his aides discussing how to...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, The Huffington Post, University of California, Los Angeles, Racism, George Washington University
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One date is not enough: Obama to dine again with GOP senators
WASHINGTON – President Obama is taking Senate Republicans on another date night. Following his successful dinner earlier this month with a dozen GOP senators, during which they discussed budgets, the president has dialed up his ideological...Tags: John Boehner, Government Health Care, Budgets and Budgeting, Parties and Movements, Politics
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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: Lindsey O. Graham, John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Political Systems, Politics
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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: John Boehner, Budgets and Budgeting, Consumers, Parties and Movements, Politics
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Denying victims a vote
WASHINGTON -- Shame on Harry Reid for killing any prospect of an assault weapons ban. I understand why he did it, but that doesn't make it right. In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke with fiery eloquence about the cost of gun...
Tags: Lobbying, Harry Reid, Weaponry, Politics, Personal Weapon Control
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Democrats missed their chance with Ashley Judd
Wiser Democratic heads prevailed last week as actress Ashley Judd was nudged out of the race to unseat Mitch McConnell, Kentucky's senior Republican senator. Did the eyes in those heads ever see Judd in "Double Jeopardy," one of the great damsel-in-...Tags: Vice (movie), Rand Paul, Fiscal Cliff, Politics, Tea Party Movement
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Bad luck for Mitch McConnell: Ashley Judd bows out
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for re-election next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie,...
Tags: Celebrities, Harry Reid, Parties and Movements, Politics, Tea Party Movement
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