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Obama, Boehner Each Earn Wins in Budget Pact
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - Rivals in a divided government, President Barack Obama and the most powerful Republican in Congress split their differences to stave off a federal shutdown that neither combatant was willing to risk. Their compromise is the result of a battle pitting the enduring power of the presidential veto and the White House soapbox - despite a "shellacking" in the last election - against a strong-willed GOP House speaker vaulted into office by a voter revolt against Washington's free-spending ways. AP / Getty Images President Obama successfully forced Republicans to push aside ...
Lawmakers Reach 'Historic' Deal to Avoid Government Shutdown
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - Perilously close to a government shutdown, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached a historic agreement late Friday night to cut about $38 billion in federal spending and avert the first federal closure in 15 years. Obama hailed the deal as "the biggest annual spending cut in history." House Speaker John Boehner said that over the next decade it would cut government spending by $500 billion, and won an ovation from his rank and file -tea party adherents among them. Saul Loeb, AFP / Getty Images President Barack Obama hailed the budget deal as "the ...
Possible Deal Near as Shutdown Deadline Approaches
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Perilously close to a government shutdown, the White House and congressional leaders closed in on a possible deal to cut tens of billions of dollars in federal spending and avert the closure, officials said Friday night. House Republican leaders summoned their rank and file to a late night meeting for what aides said would be an update on the talks. Democrats said they were reviewing the details of a possible tentative agreement. The developments unfolded as the administration readied hundreds of thousands of furlough notices for federal workers and warned that federal ...
Workers Brace for Effect of Government Shutdown
By not in system - AOL NewsLITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A weather forecaster says he may have to live off the money he's been setting aside for a Caribbean vacation. A worker in Washington hopes to polish his resume so he can retire from public service and work in the private sector. An accountant wonders if she can put off her mortgage for a month. Federal workers like them across the U.S. will be out of work and without a paycheck if the looming government shutdown isn't averted. Some say they will make the best of it, using the spare time to get a few things done. Others are far more fearful of how they'll provide for their ...
Opinion Roundup: Will 'So Be It' Comment Hurt Boehner?
By not in system - AOL NewsAt a news conference on Tuesday, Speaker John Boehner answered a question about federal job loss in the event that House Republicans enact billions of dollars in discretionary spending cuts. "Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs," Boehner said. "And if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it. We're broke. It's time for us to get serious about how we're spending the nation's money." From the Atlantic Wire Boehner's words -- "so be it" -- have been splashed across any number of websites ...
Opinion: The GOP's Unforced Errors
By Elaine S. Povich - AOL NewsIt may be a cliche, but Casey Stengel still said it best: "Can't anybody here play this game?" Listen up, House Speaker John Boehner, that old baseball phrase-maker is talking to you. And to your leader, Eric Cantor, and your whip, Kevin McCarthy. Two days in a row, you were embarrassed when the House you supposedly "control" refused to go along with your wishes on two relatively easy bills -- one to renew the Patriot Act and one to compel the United Nations to pay back $179 million it got from the United States. The embarrassments are enough trouble on their face, but what's more important ...
Jobless Rate Lowest Since April 2009, but Still at 9 Percent
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe national jobless rate dropped to 9 percent in January -- a decline of 0.4 percent, the government reported. The downtick comes as unemployment has hovered above 9 percent for the past 20 months -- and the Obama White House sharpens its focus on job creation. But only 36,000 jobs were added to the economy last month. "Employment rose in manufacturing and in retail trade, but was down in construction and in transportation and warehousing," the Labor Department said Friday. "Employment in most other major industries changed little over the month." On Friday, the White House cited efforts to ...
Republican John Boehner Elected House Speaker
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Rep. John Boehner was elected speaker of the House, sealing newfound Republican power-sharing in Congress and drawing the curtain on the history-making Nancy Pelosi era at the helm. Cheers broke out among GOP lawmakers on the House floor on Wednesday as Boehner, a veteran lawmaker from Ohio, defeated Pelosi in the roll call for speaker. His rise to the helm of the House was virtually guaranteed months ago, when the midterm elections returned Republicans to control of the House, which they had surrendered to Democrats four years ago. Pelosi was the first woman to rise to the ...
Sharp Fiscal Split Looms Over Obama and GOP
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Nov. 30) -- Today's delayed, diminished and sure to be disputed White House meeting between President Barack Obama and ascendant congressional Republicans is set to include discussion of a broad array of national security and domestic policy issues. But in a week when painful deficit-cutting plans are coming to the fore and the government's operations could go unfunded if Congress doesn't act, no subject is likely to dominate the one-hour session as much as how the government spends and earns its money. Charles Dharapak, AP Republican John Boehner, center, looks on as President Barack Obama ...
The Republicans Win, but Do They Have a Mandate?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 3) -- The GOP won big on Tuesday, but do they arrive in the new Congress -- now controlling the House and picking up a few more votes in the Senate -- with a mandate? It wouldn't appear so, writes Slate's John Dickerson. "In exit polls, 37 percent [of voters] said the highest priority of Congress should be 'spending to create jobs,' " he points out. That's a call for more stimulus, not less. The same percentage called for reducing the budget deficit, something the GOP has pledged to do without offering any serious proposals for doing so. (Tax cuts would increase the deficit.) The ...
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