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Remove Medicare's straitjacket
Now that the budget "sequester" is in effect, Congress is shifting its attention to entitlement reform. There's simply no way to achieve long-term reductions in federal spending without touching the big health programs, particularly Medicare. Although...
Tags: Medicare, Bevacizumab (drug), New Products, U.S. Congress, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Boehner solicits House GOP input on budget wars
WASHINGTON – House Speaker John A. Boehner wants his Republican troops to think deep thoughts. As House Republicans prepare for the next budget showdown with President Obama, the Ohioan, in a letter to rank-and-file lawmakers Thursday, drew on...
Tags: Washington, DC, Budget Control Act of 2011, U.S. Congress, Republican Party, White House
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In Bucks, Fitzpatrick uses Pelosi to raise campaign cash
Of The Morning CallIt's been a while since Nancy Pelosi was in control of the House, but apparently she's still fund-raising gold for Republicans. After House Majority PAC rapped Republican Bucks County Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick for his support of Rep. Paul Ryan's...Tags: Elections, Politics, Services and Shopping, Nancy Pelosi, Parties and Movements
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Progress slows on federal budget bill
WASHINGTON -- A dispute over budget cuts that threaten dozens of smaller control towers with closure slowed Senate progress Tuesday on legislation to avoid a government shutdown on March 27. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., refused repeatedly to permit...Tags: Elections, Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Air Transportation Industry
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Our biggest problem is not deficits
"Our biggest problems over the next 10 years are not deficits," President Barack Obama told House Republicans last week, according to those who attended the meeting. The president needs to deliver the same message to the public, loudly and clearly....
Tags: National Government, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Unemployment, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Lost in their own wilderness
WASHINGTON -- Republicans shouldn't worry that President Obama is trying to destroy the GOP. Why would he bother? The party's leaders are doing a pretty good job of it themselves. As they try to understand why the party lost an election it was confident...
Tags: Arts and Culture, National Government, Abortion, Politics, Parties and Movements
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Ryan says deep budget cuts likely unavoidable
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Budget Committee says Republicans will oppose tax increases and, as a result, deep, unpopular budget cuts will likely take effect. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin told NBC's "Meet the Press" on...
Tags: Washington, DC, Republican Party, Politics, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Government Debt
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Rex Huppke: Rob Portman's changing stance on gay marriage shows danger of knowledge
Knowledge is just a slippery slope toward finding out I'm wrong about something. So I try to avoid it, usually by watching television or dodging experiences that might broaden my comfortably narrow horizons. But not everyone is as skilled as I am at...
Tags: Elections, Wildlife, U.S. Congress, Endangered Species, Rob Portman
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Leading Democrat: Gun control faces uphill climb
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who's leading the push to restore an assault weapon ban, acknowledged on Sunday that the effort faces tough odds to pass Congress and she blamed the nation's largest gun-rights group. Feinstein, D-Calif.,...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, New York City, Politics, Dianne Feinstein, Justice System
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A 'path' to meaningful reform
The road to meaningful U.S. immigration reform will no doubt prove rocky and difficult, but at least Washington has taken its first big step on the most critical part of the route — down the so-called "path to citizenship" that now has bipartisan...Tags: Elections, Tea Party Movement, Politics, Immigration, Migration
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Nancy Pelosi on ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’; Paul Ryan on ‘Meet the Press’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelSen. Dianne Feinstein speaks Thursday on Capitol Hill about her bill to ban assault weapons. Photo credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: The weekend political discussion starts on HBO's “Real Time With Bill Maher.” Maher... -
Republicans rediscover the virtues of immigration reform
In my Sunday column, I suggested that Republicans in Congress have begun to evolve in a more pragmatic, less ideological direction after their losses in last year’s election. As evidence, I noted that House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) backed...
Tags: Elections, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress, Politics, Mitt Romney
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