Hero of the last minute bipartisan fiscal package, good cop to Vice President Joe Biden’s bad cop, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is insistent that he is sick and tired of being called in to bridge differences between the parties...
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Senator Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, on the Capitol.
McConnell: ‘Time to Get Serious’
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A U.S. military transportation vehicle at the Port of Beaumont upon return from deployment overseas.
Defense Cuts, More Around the Cliff — Add That, `Budgeteers’
Don’t forget about the other sequester. While all eyes are on the so-called fiscal cliff, a second round of automatic spending cuts, one that will carve $11 billion out of the Pentagon’s budget, is set to kick in shortly after...
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A soldier from the 3rd Platoon, Delta Coy, 1-64 Armoured Batallion of the U.S. Army operating under NATO mounts an night-time operating post at Devils hill near the Kandahar Air Field.
Washington Daybook: Doomsday
Call it the Doomsday budget. The White House today will release its plans for automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that could result from the failure of the so-called Super Committee to agree on a deficit reduction plan last year. The report,...
Read more »CR: Discontent on the Right
There are rumblings from the right as the House prepares to vote on the six-month continuing resolution. Some members of the Republican Study Committee, including the group’s chairman, Jim Jordan, are sounding unenthusiastic as they pick through the written details...
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