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National Public Radio
| 4 months ago
When the rumored rebellion against House Speaker John Boehner's bid for a second term played out last week, the very first Republican to not vote for Boehner was Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., just three names into the alphabetic roll call. The revolt...
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Money Morning
| 4 months ago
The United States hit the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling on Dec...Thanks to some creative financial maneuvers, dubbed "extraordinary measures," the government is running on $200 billion in emergency funding, provided by the Treasury Department. Congress,...
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Aim West Milford
| 4 months ago
President Barack Obama had a clear political edge in his fight with Republicans over the fiscal cliff, and used it to his advantage. In the upcoming battle over federal borrowing and spending, the leverage will be more evenly divided and the outcome...
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BusinessInsider
| 4 months ago
The U.S. hits the debt ceiling and begins the process of defaulting on its debt on February 15, 2013, a day known as the "X date". This whole debate over whether or not the debt ceiling debate and subsequent collision should be averted with the use...
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CNN
| 4 months ago
Thu January 10, 2013 Editor's note: William J. Bennett, a CNN contributor, is the author of "The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood." He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 and director of the Office of National Drug Control...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 4 months ago
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was on front pages and TV screens last week when he ripped House Republicans for not passing a Hurricane Sandy relief bill New Year's Day, the same day they were engulfed with the fiscal-cliff tax bill. "There's only...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 4 months ago
President Obama says he won't negotiate with Republicans over his proposed more than $1 trillion increase in the debt ceiling as a matter of principle because Congress "should pay the bills that they have already racked up." Set aside the obviousthat...
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Washington Post
| 4 months ago
However, as a matter of policy, rather than politics, it is no more sensible to draw the line at $620 billion in additional revenue over the next decade than to insist, as have some Democrats, that Medicare and Social Security remain untouched. The...
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Community News
| 4 months ago
Governor Christie renewed his vow to continue pressuring the members of Congress who have yet to approve disaster relief, as he repeated the theme from his State of the State address that rebuilding from superstorm Sandy is bigger than politics. We...
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Gawker
| 4 months ago
Public Policy Polling has released new data that shows Gov. Christie has a 48 percent to 27 percent favorability rating with Republicans compared to his 52 percent to 23 percent favorability with Democrats. Christie actually fares best with...
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The Idaho Statesman
| 4 months ago
In case you thought there was no risk of your taxes going up again, think again...Democrats, led by President Barack Obama, want lawmakers to consider a fresh set of tax increases in the next several weeks when they discuss whether to cut spending.
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NY Daily News
| 4 months ago
Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp says he fears 'attack' on family after voting against John Boehner for second term as House Speaker They will punish me. They will attack my family,' Huelskamp wrote in a fundraising email. The conservative Republican is...
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NewKerala
| 4 months ago
According to a Washington Post/ABC Poll, Boehner saw a 20-point net negative rating, with 31 percent approving and 51 percent disapproving of his handling of the deal. In contrast, President Barack Obama won a majority of support for his handling of...
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The Hill
| 4 months ago
I think he and Vice President Biden have a good working relationship, and it appears to be one of the few good working relationships that the administration has with members of Congress on the Republican side of the aisle, said former Sen. Judd...
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The Journal Gazette
| 4 months ago
In recent days, Stutzman has voted against $9.7 billion in federal assistance for Hurricane Sandy victims, co-sponsored a bill that would replace the federal income tax with a national sales tax and renewed his call for a ban on federal funding for...
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Aquarian
| 4 months ago
Not far from Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell looked down at the floor and smirked. Many in the crowded hall believed the speaker's derision was meant only for Reid, a mortal enemy of House Republicans and the poster boy for the type of...
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Politico
| 4 months ago
A conservative advocacy group is targeting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with a series of online ads in his home state for helping to negotiate the fiscal cliff deal. It's a statement we're making and I suspect there will be more statements...
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The Boston Globe
| 4 months ago
N.J. (AP) Gov. Chris Christie promised in his annual State of the State address Tuesday that New Jersey will be back stronger than ever'' after Superstorm Sandy and will do it without returning to the old ways of wasteful spending and rising taxes.''...
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
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Money Morning
| 4 months ago
Washington's rushed fiscal cliff deal failed to resolve half of the issue at hand: what to do about the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts . The short-term deal struck on New Year's Day delayed the cuts for a couple months. Talks are set to...
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CNN
| 4 months ago
Partisan bickering, acrimony, mistrust, communication breakdowns, lines drawn in the sand and 11th-hour compromises are the new normal on Capitol Hill. Managing to function in a constant state of dysfunction while fiercely fighting to eke out a...
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Truthdig
| 4 months ago
Jan 8, 2013 After a three-week break, The Daily Show returned Monday night with the well-rested host raring to go after House Republicans for their messed up response to the Hurricane Sandy aid package. You may recall that House Speaker John Boehner...
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International Business Times
| 4 months ago
But President Barack Obama's approval rating was only marginally better, perhaps more evidence that the American public has serious concerns regarding the way the nations' leaders actually conduct the business of running a country.
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Japan Times
| 4 months ago
When we set out to write a book about the growing extremism in American politics about 18 months ago, we thought that the 112th Congress was the worst we had seen in our four decades in Washington. However, the fight over the debt limit, the fiscal...
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Newsbusters
| 4 months ago
The first rule for those who have dug themselves into rhetorical holes is: Stop digging. As noted yesterday (at NewsBusters ; at BizzyBlog ), Des Moines Register columnist Donald Kaul ignored that rule on January 5 by claiming that his December 30...
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Washington Post
| 4 months ago
There's no need to read Revelations or catch a Michael Bay-Jerry Bruckheimer matinee to understand what it will look like. Just Google image search Hurricane Sandy and Staten Island, and you'll get the general idea. Certainly, it will take much more...
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OpenSecrets.org
| 4 months ago
GOP lawmakers are happy to spend time in those two states "when they're out raising millions of dollars," said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who encouraged his constituents to withhold campaign cash to Boehner...But those who cast the 67 dissenting votes,...
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BusinessInsider
| 4 months ago
Making a triumphant return from hiatus, Daily Show host Jon Stewart slammed the House GOP over what became a wreck last week with a vote to expand funding to the National Flood Insurance Program for victims of Hurricane Sandy. He hit House Speaker...
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Politico
| 4 months ago
About this weekly feature Behind the Curtain is a reported column, Web show and online conversation about the behind-the-scenes intrigue that shapes politics and policy. It will unfold every Tuesday (and beyond, when news dictates).
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he "misspoke" when he said Hurricane Katrina devastation was "nothing in comparison" to that of Superstorm Sandy. Hours earlier, on Facebook and Twitter, Sen. David Vitter , R-La., called the Nevada Democrat "an...
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NY Daily News
| 4 months ago
The hunt has begun for the handful of Republican votes needed to approve $51 billion in emergency aid for New York and other states battered by Hurricane Sandy...We're speaking to other offices, and the congressman is calling his colleagues, Jason...
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The Washington Times
| 4 months ago
Despite outward statements of widespread support from his caucus after his re-election Thursday, Rep. John A. Boehner 's speakership was hanging by a thread, within three votes of mandating a second ballot, largely because he allowed the fiscal cliff...
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NY Daily News
| 4 months ago
Stories The growing chorus pushing for the coin prompted Republican Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon to introduce a bill on Monday to ban the proposal, which he called absurd and dangerous. My wife and I have owned and operated a small business since...
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Item of Millbum and Short List
| 4 months ago
the man in the middle Monday January 7, 2013, 5:22 PM Doyle McManus writes for the Los Angeles Times...In practice, he's caught between a cliff and a ceiling as the uneasy chairman of an unhappy and fractious caucus. The fiscal cliff melodrama wasn't...
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The Guardian
| 4 months ago
President Barack Obama speaks in the White House after the House of Representatives approved legislation to avoid the fiscal cliff. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The fiscal cliff was averted last week as both the House and Senate agreed on an...
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BusinessInsider
| 4 months ago
On paper at least, House Speaker John Boehner is the most important Republican in the country. He's second-in-line to succeed the president of the United States and the taskmaster for a House Republican majority that's determined to quash Obama's...
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SF Gate
| 4 months ago
President Barack Obama , meet Congressman Michael Burgess . The president says he absolutely will not let Republicans threaten a national debt ceiling crisis as a way to extract deeper federal spending cuts. Burgess' take? "It's the most preposterous...
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National Public Radio
| 4 months ago
As he finally got the votes to put him over the top and his re-election as Speaker of the House became official, one had to wonder what was going on in John Boehner's mind. If Boehner has had a rough two years in trying to keep his fellow Republicans...
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Ridgefield Park Patriot
| 4 months ago
It turns the heat on anyone or anything that gets in the way of improving life in New Jersey. The ancient Greeks believed in the power of the Golden Fleece...In the real world, it is not a golden fleece that holds power; it is a navy one inscribed:...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 4 months ago
The budget battles rocking the capital have exposed a deepening fault line within an already fractured Republican Party: the divide between the GOP's solid Southern base and the rest of the country. That regional split became evident when members of...
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
An 11th-hour Republican political coup plot against U.S. House Speaker John Boehner was bigger than previously thought, Roll Call reported Sunday. The Washington publication said it learned that the effort by a band of conservative House members was...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 4 months ago
What stunned House Speaker John Boehner more than anything else during his prolonged closed-door budget negotiations with Barack Obama was this revelation: "At one point several weeks ago," Mr. Boehner says, "the president said to me, 'We don't have...
