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House GOP Meeting on Budget Talks
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Republican leaders have called the party's House rank and file to a highly unusual late night meeting in the Capitol to discuss budget negotiations with President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats. The meeting comes about three two hours before a midnight deadline to avoid the first government shutdown in 15 years. Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling says that at this point there is no deal. But negotiators have been exchanging offers all day. ...
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 ...
Gov't Shutdown Poses Big Risks to Both Parties
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - Democrats and Republicans say the last thing they want to do is to shut down the government. But with budget talks showing little signs of a breakthrough, there are growing worries that a stalemate could hurt the economy's fragile recovery. Many economists and budget analysts suggest that a government shutdown, if it's lengthy, or even a deal that calls for deep short-term spending cuts could stifle economic growth and lead the country back into recession. Private forecasters already have lowered their growth projections for this year based on surging fuel, food and raw material ...
House GOP Plans Third Stopgap Bill to Avoid Shutdown
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- With budget talks deadlocked, House Republicans readied a weeklong bill to cut spending by as much as $12 billion while averting a government shutdown threatened for Friday, officials disclosed Monday night. The measure also would include enough money to operate the Defense Department through the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year, the officials added. They said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told the rank and file in a closed-door meeting he would seek passage of the bill if it became clear it was necessary to avoid shutting the government down. He presented the plan at the ...
GOP Wins First Budget Skirmish, Bigger Fight Looms
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Republicans won an early round Wednesday in their fight to shrink the government, pushing $4 billion in spending cuts through Congress in a bill that puts off the possibility of a government shutdown for two weeks. Largely a spectator so far, President Barack Obama dispatched his vice president to initiate negotiations on a broader, longer-term spending bill and find "common ground" with GOP leaders determined to cut tens of billions of dollars more and undo much of his agenda. He conceded in advance that any deal on a government budget covering the next seven months will ...
Why Did 26 Republicans Vote Against Extending the Patriot Act?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders expecting an easy two-thirds vote to extend key provisions of the Patriot Act were handed a rude surprise when 26 of their own opted to side with Nancy Pelosi and the American Civil Liberties Union instead of them. For Speaker of the House John Boehner, who once suggested to his new tea party compatriots that they would need to act like "adults" on tough votes such as raising the debt ceiling, what should have been a routine roll call turned into possibly the first concrete evidence that his caucus may be more unruly than he imagined. The majority party ...
Opinion: The High Cost of Repealing Health Reform
By not in system - AOL NewsBefore the ink was even dry on the Affordable Care Act, opponents of reform have been working overtime, doing anything and everything they can to repeal health reform -- and the vital consumer protections that are included in the law. For anti-health care Republicans, "repeal" might make for good political fodder, but for the rest of us, it comes with serious consequences. AOL News Debate: Repeal Health Care Reform? No: The Costs of Repeal Are Far Too High -- Ron Pollack, Families USA Yes: Obamacare Is Already Falling Apart -- Sally C. Pipes, Pacific ...
House Approves Spending Cuts in Largely Symbolic Vote
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn a highly partisan vote, the House passed 256 to 165 a nonbinding measure to block additional government spending and reduce the federal budget to pre-stimulus 2008 levels. The bill also would give Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, the authority to set spending limits on non-security discretionary items within the federal budget -- a controversial provision strongly criticized by Democrats. The vote, largely seen as a symbolic gesture by House Republicans to demonstrate their conviction to trim government spending, came just hours before the president's ...
'Repeal of Health Care Reform,' Act 1, Scene 1
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Boehner in Wonderland: Kill Health Care Before Reviewing the Evidence
By David Corn - Politics DailyNow that Speaker John Boehner has been handed Hagrid's gavel, the first order of policy business for the newly empowered House Republicans is eradicating President Obama's health care reform package by passing HR 2, which is titled -- seriously -- "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act." The measure, scheduled for a quick vote next Wednesday, will pass with Republican votes, but it won't go anywhere: Democrats in the Senate won't bother with it, and Obama has already vowed to veto the measure, if it ever reaches his desk. Which it won't. But this stunt -- being conducted instead of ...
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