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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan puts up a chart as he gives the GOP response to President Obama's budget submission for Fiscal Year 2012.
Ryan Nixed Debt Deal Romney Touts
Representative Paul Ryan was a pivotal figure in killing the 2010 Bowles-Simpson agreement, which Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney now holds out as a model for putting America’s fiscal house in order. The 18-member panel needed 14 votes to send a 10-year plan to...
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Welfare, Truth and Politics: Ad War
Mitt Romney’s claim that President Barack Obama has quietly gutted the nation’s welfare overhaul may be a political winner with some voters. Yet it’s an assertion that is at odds with the views of policy experts, the Republican governor who suggested the...
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Sen. Mary Landrieu, center, and Sen. Christopher Coons, left, arrive for a news conference on the debt on Capitol Hill.
Democrats Ready to Risk ‘Cliff’ for Obama’s Taxes on Higher-Earners
Congressional Democrats have developed a get-tough strategy to try to force Republicans to go along with President Barack Obama’s call for higher taxes for the wealthiest Americans. If Republicans continue their opposition to more revenue from top earners, Democrats say, they...
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Seniors ask about the Medicare Drug Plan in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Medicare Attack Ads Echo, Wrong
Florida seniors will be living a “nightmare” because Senator Bill Nelson voted for $500 billion in Medicare cuts, the anonymous voice warns in the most-aired ad in his re-election race — a message repeated in similar spots targeting other Democrats...
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Sister Simone Campbell, right, executive director of Network, with Sister Lorraine Schmaltz, of Ames, Iowa, during a stop on the first day of a nine-state Nuns on the Bus tour on June 18, 2012.
‘Nuns on the Bus’ Takes on Ryan Budget Supporters
A group of Roman Catholic nuns is on a bus tour of nine states to highlight their opposition to House Republican Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget plan that cuts programs benefiting the poor including Medicaid and food stamps. The...
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