So what’s the fiscal sticking point? The list from Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat, begs the question: what’s NOT the sticking point? Here is Durbin’s list of unresolved issues: the income threshold at which tax rates would rise,...
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Corker Bets His Life on Tax Deal — Allows a Wide Window for the Wager
“I would bet my life,” Sen. Robert Corker said today, that most Americans will be “rescued” from tax increases — either by New Year’s Eve or within the next couple weeks. “We’re going to deal with this tax issue, either...
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President Barack Obama says immigration reform, gun control, infrastructure spending and domestic energy production will top his second-term agenda, while his efforts to curb the growth of Medicare and Social Security may be tied to the willingness of Republicans to...
Read more »For Obama, An Expanding Pal Circle in D.C.
President Barack Obama earlier this month plaintively decried the personal element that has loomed as an added hurdle — as if one were needed – in Washington’s “fiscal cliff” morass. Commenting on his fruitless dickering for a budget deal with Republicans, he said, with...
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