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Don't Expect Any Backroom Deals on Sequester -- For Now
March 1, 2013 There’s been so much talk about relationships in Washington recently that opening a newspaper can feel a bit like reading Cosmo. House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama don’t get along, what with the speaker saying the president doesn’t have “the guts” to cut spending. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell ...
Once unthinkable, severe spending cuts now seem plausible
January 24, 2013 Republicans and Democrats in the Senate appear to be coming to the same conclusion on spending, namely that once unthinkable, draconian cuts designed to force a more reasonable compromise may be much harder to undo than anyone ever imagined. For Republicans, the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts are an increasingly palatable ...
Senate likely to pass 'No Budget No Pay' debt limit fix
January 23, 2013 Senate Democrats are likely to pass a House Republican bill to suspend the debt ceiling until May, ensuring that the government can pay its bills while lawmakers attempt to solve yet another raft of tricky fiscal issues this spring, Democratic aides said Tuesday. The House is expected to vote on ...
House GOP seeing sequester, not debt ceiling, as fight to pick
January 18, 2013 WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Republicans appear to be willing to avoid a showdown over the debt limit and instead use the sequester as their main negotiating lever in upcoming fiscal fights with the White House and Senate Democrats. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Republicans at a closed-door retreat ...
Here's what's in the fiscal cliff deal
January 1, 2013 At around 2 a.m. on New Year's Day, the Senate passed a measure aimed at pulling the country back from the "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts. The measure, hammered out by Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, still needs approval by ...
Cliff deal would extend tax cuts for households up to $450,000
December 31, 2012 Talks between Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden have resulted in key tax provisions as the two worked to finish a compromise that would avert the fiscal cliff of tax hikes and drastic spending cuts poised to hit economy starting Jan. 1: Income tax rates would ...
COLA calculation is at the center of latest fiscal cliff standoff
December 30, 2012 With fiscal cliff negotiations stalled, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has called his old dance partner Vice President Joe Biden in from the sidelines. "I have also placed a call to the vice president to see if he could help jump start the negotiations on his side," McConnell said on ...
Fiscal cliff negotiations: A slow-motion car wreck?
December 28, 2012 Washington’s fiscal cliff negotiations have taken on the feel of a slow-motion car wreck that could be avoided if only someone would take the wheel. But instead, President Obama and congressional leaders in both parties spent Thursday engaged in what amounted to a staring contest where neither side blinked. House ...
Why a fiscal cliff deal is still possible
December 21, 2012 With only days to go before Christmas, goodwill toward men is in short supply in Washington as Democrats and Republicans blame each other for driving the country toward economic calamity. Gloom has settled over the prospect of reaching a deal to keep the country from diving off a fiscal cliff ...
Democrats dodge questions on spending cuts
December 19, 2012 President Obama’s latest fiscal cliff offer to support deeper spending cuts to popular government programs puts his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill in a tough spot on Tuesday, driving them to dodge questions about whether they could support it. Obama’s plan calls for $1.2 trillion in spending cuts that include ...
