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Super Committee Presentation Goes Over Required Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.26.2011

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the congressional super committee have produced a "presentation" that would include a roughly equal mix of spending cuts an...

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Poll Has Bad News For Obama

AP | By BRENT KALLESTAD | Posted 10.04.2011

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- President Barack Obama is losing support among Florida voters, especially among independents, a poll released Thursday shows. Fi...

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This Summer of Our Discontent Emboldens Activists Nationwide

Pearl Korn | Posted 10.03.2011

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Those lazy, hazy summer days of relaxing and thinking about traveling to far-off destinations is but a distant memory this year as we have been shocked back to brutal reality by the theatre of the absurd being played out in the debt ceiling fight in our nation's capitol.

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Default Missile

Shan Wells | Posted 10.01.2011

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Harry Reid Tentatively Signs Off On Debt Ceiling Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.30.2011

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has tentatively signed off on a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling, which has been prima...

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Debt Ceiling Deal In The Works, Default At Stake

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 09.30.2011

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WASHINGTON — Ending a perilous stalemate, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders announced a historic agreement Sunday night on emerge...

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LIVE UPDATES: Debt Ceiling Deadline Looms, Default At Stake

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.28.2011

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WASHINGTON — White House and congressional negotiators sought on Sunday to reassure the nation that they would beat a Tuesday deadline for averting ...

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Capitol Phone Lines Jam... Again

Posted 09.28.2011

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Phone lines in the Capitol jammed once again just days after a similar technical situation unfolded earlier this week. HuffPost's Ryan Grim report...

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LIVE UPDATES: Debt Ceiling Deadline Looms

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2011

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Neither the House nor the Senate had a clear path forward for must-pass legislation to allow the government to continue to borrow to pay its bills, pu...

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Congress Needs to Do Its Job: Pay America's Bills, Put Americans Back to Work

Heather McGhee | Posted 09.26.2011

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Millions of Americans were thrown out of work because of forces beyond of their control in 2008. It should be unthinkable for any leader to threaten to intentionally revisit that suffering on more Americans for political gain, and yet that is where we are.

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Should Obama Pull Constitutional Move, Legal Experts Suggest It'd Prove Difficult To Challenge In Court

Reuters | Carlyn Kolker | Posted 09.25.2011

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama says he will not bypass Congress and cite an obscure part of the U.S. Constitution to prevent a government...

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Stalemate Standoff

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 09.24.2011

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President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner held dueling prime time addresses to the nation and even disagreed on whether there was a stalemate over the debt ceiling. That is the problem in a nutshell.

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Poll Shows Where Voters Stand On Debt

AP | By CONNIE CASS | Posted 09.24.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Just last fall, Americans were feeling better about their personal finances. Now they're starting to worry more about how they'll pay of...

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#f*ckyouwashington: The Story of a Hashtag and a Movement

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 09.23.2011

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I didn't intend this to be anything more than spouting off in 140 profane characters. It turns out that the people of Twitter taught me a lesson about the potential of a public armed with a Gutenberg press in every pocket, with its tools of publicness.

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White House, Republicans Clash As Debt Ceiling Deadline Looms

AP | BEN FELLER and DAVID ESPO | Posted 09.23.2011

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WASHINGTON — With bipartisan talks stalled, House Republicans and Senate Democrats readied rival debt-limit emergency fallback plans in hopes of...

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Debt Ceiling Talks Collapse

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.21.2011

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Precariously short of time, congressional leaders struggled in urgent, weekend-long talks to avert an unprecedented government default, desperate to s...

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Obama Takes Case To American People

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.21.2011

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Amid contentious negotiations taking place in the nation's capital to raise the debt ceiling, President Barack Obama is taking his case on the signifi...

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The Debt Ceiling Debate Provides an Opportunity for Change

Steve Garcia | Posted 09.17.2011

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There is no better time for Democrats and Republicans to come together and show that they are greater than the politics that separate them.

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Obama Publicly Backs Means-Testing Medicare

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.14.2011

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama formally acknowledged on Friday that he would support a plan to means-test Medicare as a part of a deal to raise ...

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Medicaid Cuts: A Misguided Journey Back to the Future

Maggie Kozel, M.D. | Posted 09.14.2011

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We should be refining and bolstering our Medicaid system, not chopping it. We can -- and need to -- provide smarter, more cost-effective, quality-driven health care for everyone.

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Rep. Nadler On Obama's Medicare Proposal: 'There Won't Be Any Democratic Votes For That'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.11.2011

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's vision of a grand deal on raising the nation's debt ceiling may have been scrapped by a skittish Speaker John Boehner ...

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Obama Offered To Raise Medicare Eligibility Age As Part Of Grand Debt Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.10.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In his press conference on Monday morning, President Barack Obama repeatedly insisted that he was willing to tackle some sacred cows as...

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Debt Ceiling Politics: 'Few Exercises Produce As Much Cynical And Overtly Partisan Behavior'

wsj.com | Posted 06.26.2011

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Iowa has two Senators, one a Republican (Charles Grassley), the other a Democrat (Tom Harkin). Each has voted seven times since 2002 on a bill to r...

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