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No budging as fiscal cliff talks appear stalled

Source: Deseret News, Dec 12 2012, 4:59pm CST

WASHINGTON — Republicans aren't budging on tax rates, and Democrats are resisting steps like raising the eligibility age for Medicare. Negotiations on averting a year-end fiscal train wreck combining big automat ...

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GOP Hispanic Outreach Hits Tea Party Fury

Source: Roll Call  |   Jun 19 2013, 6:14pm CDT

House Republican leadership’s outreach to the Hispanic community ran smack into a tea party wall on Wednesday. Outside the Capitol, a tea-party-fueled rally on immigration put the spotlight on the dilemma facing Speaker John A. Boehne ...

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House votes to cut food stamps

Source: Kansas.com  |   Jun 19 2013, 6:01pm CDT

WASHINGTON — The House has voted to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year. The chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to a wide-ranging farm bill that would have maintained current spending on food ...

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26 weeks ago


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"If there's real cuts in spending, if there's real reform of entitlement programs, I think all of us would have to reconsider our position"


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So Even a Pathetic Pipsqueak Like Dana Rohrbacher Scares Boehner?

Source: Down With Tyranny!  |   Jun 19 2013, 5:10pm CDT

Rohrbacher used to be... a surfer, a folk singer, a pot head, a homo, Congress' #1 supporter of the Taliban and a terrorist in Afghanistan (or at least someone who dressed up as a terrorist for a photo shoot). Rohrabacher ...

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The House GOP's Savage Opening Bid On Immigration

Source: Washington Monthly  |   Jun 19 2013, 4:44pm CDT

June 19, 2013 5:03 PM House Speaker John Boehner eased his caucus’s fears that he would kowtow to Democrats when he declared three times Tuesday at a closed-door meeting that he would not put an immigration bill on the House floor ...

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Immigration bill would cut deficit, budget office says

Source: TwinCities.com  |   Jun 19 2013, 4:29pm CDT

headed toward votes on amendments in its second week of considering an immigration measure, Boehner tried to put to rest discussion that he would consider pushing through an immigration bill with a combination of Democrats and ...

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The second-term slump

Source: Bangor Daily News  |   Jun 19 2013, 4:26pm CDT

Obviously, Obama is not up for re-election, which raises the question: How important are approval ratings for his second term? House Republicans aren’t suddenly going to stop listening to him if his numbers decline. They’re already ig ...

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Russia could stand in way of Obama's nuclear cut

Source: NorthJersey.com  |   Jun 19 2013, 4:04pm CDT

WASHINGTON — By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe i ...

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Opinion: How the GOP can win the youth vote

Source: NorthJersey.com  |   Jun 19 2013, 3:52pm CDT

THE GOP’S problem with younger voters is relatively new. Richard Nixon won 52 percent of voters under 30 in 1972. Ronald Reagan won 59 percent of the youth vote in 1984. In 2000, George W. Bush lost under-30 vote ...

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GOP lawmaker says his opposition to state budget isn't a surprise

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune  |   Jun 19 2013, 3:50pm CDT

MADISON, Wis. — One of three Assembly Republicans who voted against the state budget says he had made up his mind a long time ago. Rep. Steve Kestell of Elkhart Lake said Wednesday that his "no" vote was because the ...

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