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House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, right, shows Bloomberg Television reporter Peter Cook how to tie a necktie following an interview at the Capitol on May 7, 2013.
Boehner Knows How to Tie One On — Our Reporter’s Neckware Tutorial
House Speaker John Boehner may have drawn a line in the sand on taxes, but you will almost never find him with a wrinkle in one of his ties. The Ohio Republican is a model of sartorial splendor on Capitol...
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Camp: `Comprehensive’ Deal Sought
President Barack Obama has given House Republicans an opening: While protecting the tax rates for 98 percent of Americans at year’s end, allow the rates for top-earners to rise to pre-Bush levels and then return in the next session of...
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Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of President Obama's deficit commission, right, and Alan Simpson, fellow co-chairman of the deficit commission, pose for a portrait at the Russell Senate office building in Washington.
Simpson, Bowles Divided on One Issue
For nearly three years Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles have been joined at the hip. Simpson the Republican, former Wyoming Senator with the sharp wit, and Bowles the Democrat, former Clinton chief of staff with the investment banker pedigree, formed...
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Elizabeth Warren at a campaign event in Scituate, Massachusetts.
Brown vs. Warren: $48M and Counting
“The nation’s hottest Senate race is in Massachusetts.” So notes Bloomberg Television’s Peter Cook, who has interviewed both Republican Sen. Scott Brown and challenger Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate, in “a heavyweight fight that could determine...
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White House economists, Alan Kreuger and Gene Sperling, left, versus Team Bloomberg, Hans Nichols and Peter Cook, right.
Obama’s Backhanded Economists: Reporter’s (Sweaty) Notebook
As a Washington journalist, there’s only one thing worse than being beaten on a White House story: Being beaten by the White House itself. Last night, my Bloomberg colleague Hans Nichols and I faced off on the tennis court with...
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Romney Raising Money Behind Closed Doors
Mitt Romney is hard at work today trying to unseat President Obama, but don’t expect to see him at a rally or town hall in a battleground state. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is instead busy raising money in New York City behind...
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