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Reid: No Christmas Until Tax Cut Passes

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate and President Obama will not go on their Christmas vacations until Congress extends the expiring payroll tax cut, Senate Majo...

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McCain: GOP Getting 'Picked Apart'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Democrats are winning the message war over the payroll tax cut, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) declared Tuesday, conceding the GOP was getti...

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GOP Sen. Bob Corker Disses Boehner, Praises Reid On Debt

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Conservative Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) sounded Wednesday like he prefers the looks of the Democratic budget-cutting plan better than Ho...

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Mitch McConnell Offers New Strategy: Blame Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.13.2011

WASHINGTON -- In a bad sign for the stalled debt talks, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) ratcheted up the rhetoric in the ongoing blame ...

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GOP: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is 'Pathetic'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Having the Senate declare that millionaires should share more of the pain involved in putting America's financial house in order is "rat...

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Squashing the Debate Over Spending Caps

Rebecca Thiess | Posted 08.29.2011

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Some say that statutorily enforced spending levels are needed to force our government to follow responsible spending practices. While that rhetoric may sound responsible, the consequences of spending caps would be anything but.

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Corker: White House's 'Cute Arguments' No Excuse For Bypassing Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 08.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a resolution backing President Barack Obama on Libya, despite Re...

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Senate Unveils Tough Libya Resolution Pressuring Obama Over Military Involvement

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A resolution before the Senate pressures President Barack Obama to seek congressional consent for continued U.S. military involvement in...

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Banks Lose: Merchants Prevail In Swipe Fee Fight

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The six-month Senate fight over debit card swipe fees is finally over. The banks lost. An amendment pushed by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mon...

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Swipe Fee Showdown In Senate [UPDATED]

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The hardest fought, most expensive legislative battle of 2011 is coming to a head today in the U.S. Senate. The question: How much s...

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John Boehner: U.S. Should ‘Re-Engage’ With Pakistan In Wake Of Osama Bin Laden's Death

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 07.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As some lawmakers call for the United States to cut aid to Pakistan following the death of Osama bin Laden there earlier this month, Hou...

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GOP Senator: U.S. Military 'Frustrated' With Afghanistan War

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 07.10.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) believes that the discovery and killing of Osama bin Laden in Abottabad, Pakistan has provided the United Stat...

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The Republican Plan With Lipstick

Robert Reich | Posted 07.03.2011

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Republicans figure that if they can't sell the pig, they'll just put lipstick on it and find some suckers who will think it's something else. That's the proposal emerging in the Senate from Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee and also Democrat Claire McCaskill of Missouri.

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Trigger Happy

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 06.22.2011

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When you strip away the verbiage, all of the economic triggers discussed in the budget debate would have the same basic outcome: They would cut government spending without asking the wealthy to pay more in taxes.

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Late Returns: Gary Johnson Looks For Room To Run

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.21.2011

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We have another official candidate for President -- by which we mean: past the "testing the waters" and "exploratory committee" stages into a full-blo...

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Senators Back Delay In Crackdown On Fees That Yield Billions For Banks

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, a group of nine senators led by Montana Democrat Jon Tester put their names behind legislation to delay the Federal Reserve'...

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell Opponents Taking Revenge On Russian Arms Treaty

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- The repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy over the weekend was a major victory for the White House, but it is now imperi...

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GOP Senator Threatens Dems Over DADT Repeal

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011

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But on the Senate floor a few moments ago, Senator Bob Corker basically said this publicly: He said that moving forward with DADT "poisons the well" o...

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Corker's Price on Nuclear Warhead Safety Is Bigotry?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Bob Corker is saying that he's going risk putting nukes out into the world untethered because he wants to make sure that gay US military men and women have to continue to lie and deceive about their status.

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Congressional Abdication to the Fed

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The financial fallout for individuals and companies is too important to be left to an unaccountable and secret economic czar. Congress' abdication of responsibility to the Federal Reserve puts us in dangerous territory.

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GOP Wants To Strip Fed Of Power To Combat Joblessness

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans are pushing to strip the Federal Reserve of its authority to address unemployment, leaving it with the lone re...

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Biden's 'Republican Tea Party' Remarks Prompt Negative Reactions On Capitol Hill

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

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After Vice President Joe Biden said the alternative to a Democratically controlled Congress is the "Republican Tea Party," lawmakers on both sides of ...

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Partisan Obstructionism Threatens National Security

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Every day without New START in force is another day we don't know for sure what is going on with Russia's nuclear weapons. That is not good for America.

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Corker Rips Obama Over 'Duplicity' Of Asking For Bipartisanship After Pushing For Reform

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 05.25.2011

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A GOP senator ripped into President Barack Obama at a meeting on Capitol Hill Tuesday, telling him he had "audacity" coming in and using Republican la...

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Simon Johnson: Why Do Senators Corker And Dodd Really Think We Need Big Banks?

Baseline Scenario | Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bob Corker, Wall Street Reform, Financial Reform, Banks, Chris Dodd, Wall Street, Too Big to Fail, Business News

On Friday, Senator Bob Corker (R, TN) took to the Senate floor to rebut critics of big banks. His language was not entirely senatorial: "I hope we'll...

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