This is a day of new beginnings. On the morning that President Barack Obama stands to deliver the inaugural address for his second term, he has some guests in at the White House this morning: Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia...
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, among the coffee guests.
Cantor at White House: ‘Lovely Wives’
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President Barack Obama speaks on ongoing 'fiscal cliff' negotiations with Republican members of Congress on Dec. 19, 2012 in Washington.
Obama: Middle Class Awaits Action — Calls on Congress to Compromise
President Barack Obama, framing the fiscal debate in Washington as a question of protecting the middle class, asked members of Congress today to spend the coming holiday break thinking of their obligations to the American public. “Over the last few...
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Dec. 18, 2012 on Capitol Hill.
Plan B = Plan-Ex = Cliff, on the GPS
The House was supposed to vote tonight on Plan B. The House Republicans summoned a conference instead, and out came members saying: No vote. This was House Speaker John Boehner’s fall-back — the alternative to the fiscal cliff talks, his...
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Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner enters a press conference where he spoke about the fiscal cliff.
Obama-Boehner Talks: 5.0
House Speaker John Boehner, after several conversations with President Barack Obama either in person or by telephone, has gone to the White House again today. With a Dec. 31 deadline for averting a pileup of automatic tax increases and spending...
Read more »Fiscal Talks Inch Toward Middle
The White House started at $1.6 trillion with its demand for added tax revenue. House Speaker John Boehner opened with $800 billion in tax revenue. They differ sharply over how to raise it, the White House with tax increases, the...
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President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Nov. 16, 2012 in Washington.
Obama, Boehner Talk – `Lines Open’
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met today at the White House to talk about the dispute over the U.S. budget, representatives of both men said. And the identical statements released by the White House and speaker’s office indicated that...
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Speaker of the House John Boehner outside his office at the Capitol on Dec. 7, 2012.
Boehner’s Opening: Tax Carve-Out for Small Business Owners?
Written with Mark Silva House Speaker John Boehner and fellow Republicans have maintained from the start that their opposition to tax increases on people earning more than $250,000 involves the impact this could have on small-business owners. The data show...
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The Capitol is reflected in Washington.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 40
That’s the share of Americans who say that President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress will reach an agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center and the Washington Post. Forty-nine percent...
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Decorations in the State Dining Room during the first viewing of the White House 2012 holiday decorations on Nov. 28, 2012.
Boehner at White House: Humbug
The White House is festooned with decorated trees and a model of the first dog, Bo, all for the season’s holidays. And last night, the president opened the doors of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to members of Congress for one of...
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TSA employees demonstrate an advanced image technology (AIT) millimeter wave scanner using new Automated Target Recognition software at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada.
TSA to Mica: You Have No Jurisdiction
House Republicans haven’t tired of working over one of their favorite punching bags, the Transportation Security Administration, holding more than two dozen hearings in 2011 and 2012. Agency Administrator John Pistole now is drawing the line. Pistole not only sent word today that...
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