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Payday Lenders Know You Gotta Spend Money To Make Money

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Payday Lending, Payday Lenders, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Ftc, Campaign Contributions, Cfpb, Elections 2012, Payday Loans, Richard Shelby, Spencer Bachus, Jeb Hensarling, Federal Trade Commission, Video, Business News

Consumer advocates in Washington have pledged to battle payday lenders, the quick-cash loan shops that often charge ruinously high interest rates to p...

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Gingrich Super PAC Donor Moves His Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A super PAC launched to protect the Republican Party majority in the House of Representatives received its biggest infusion of cash to d...

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Deficit-Cutting Committee Reaches Deadline

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Taxes, Debt, Super Committee Deadline, Patty Murray, Payroll Tax Cut, Supercommittee, Deficit Reduction, Deficit Commission, Payroll Tax, Medicare Cuts, Deficit, Video, Super Committee, Supercommittee Deadline, Medicare, Jeb Hensarling, Super Committee Fails, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Congress' supercommittee conceded ignominious defeat Monday in its quest to conquer a government debt that stands at a staggering $...

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Super Committee Fails: Panel's End Run Around Democracy Fizzles

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- An ill-conceived scheme to make an end run around public opposition to major spending cuts to entitlement and social programs has founde...

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Super Committee Will Likely Fail, Co-Chairs Admit

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Video, Social Security, Super Committee, Patty Murray, Automatic Triggers, Deficit Reduction, Patty Murray Super Committee, Supercommittee, Xavier Becerra, Medicare, Jeb Hensarling, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

The leaders of a special deficit reduction panel signaled Sunday that they will fail to strike a deal to reduce the deficit before their Wednesday dea...

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Super Committee Plays The Blame Game

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Taxes, Super Committee Deadline, Debt, Congress, Chris Van Hollen, Patty Murray, Supercommittee, Super Committee Medicare, Bush Tax Cuts, Deficit, Video, Super Committee, Jeb Hensarling, Super Committee Taxes, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats exchanged barbs but little else Thursday as Congress' super-committee limped toward a Nov. 23 deadline wi...

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Deadline Looms As Debt Deal Appears Far Away

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR and DAVID ESPO | Posted 01.16.2012

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WASHINGTON — As the nation's debt soared past $15 trillion, congressional Republicans and Democrats approached stalemate Wednesday in a yearlong...

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Supercommittee Making Little Progress, Lawmakers Warn

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Video, Tom Coburn, Debt Deal, Mark Warner, Supercommittee, Deficit Reduction, Gang of Six, Jeb Hensarling, Deficit Supercommittee, Politics News

Democrats and Republicans on the congressional supercommittee tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion in federal savings are still far apart on a n...

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Obama Warns Super Committee Co-Chairs Not To Change Triggers In Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.11.2012

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WASHINGTON -- With the deadline fast approaching for the congressional super committee to make its deficit reduction recommendations, President Barack...

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Super Committee Holds More Closed-Door Meetings

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.05.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The six Democratic members of a 12-member super committee with extraordinary powers to shape spending over the next decade held another ...

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Paul Ryan Backs Up Rick Perry: Social Security Is A Ponzi Scheme

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 11.20.2011

WASHINGTON -- Speaking on conservative radio on Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) agreed with Texas Gov. Rick Perry's (R) claim that Social Security is...

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House GOP's Talking Points On Obama's Jobs Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are circulating talking points in advance of President Barack Obama's jobs speech to Congress, urging their members to...

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Super Congress Will Meet In Public

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The so-called Super Congress will attempt to hold the majority of its meetings in public, in full view of the voters and the press, the ...

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Super Committee Members Still Raising Money For Themselves

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Super Congress, Fred Upton, Sunlight Foundation, Chris Van Hollen, Patty Murray, Xavier Becerra, Jon Kyl, Campaign Finance, Dave Camp, Super Committee, Rob Portman, John Kerry, Jeb Hensarling, Pat Toomey, Jim Clyburn, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The super committee created by the debt limit deal to plot $1.5 trillion in deficit cuts is set to begin hearings in the next two weeks....

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Perry Backs Off Social Security 'Ponzi Scheme' Comments

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 10.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry recently walked back his claims that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme,...

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Former Lobbyists Could Staff 'Super Congress'

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 10.11.2011

WASHINGTON -- With congressional leaders having finalized their selection of the 12-member, bicameral panel designed to pinpoint $1.5 trillion in defi...

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McConnell, Boehner Make 'Super Congress' Appointments

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 10.10.2011

WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders of the House and Senate announced their picks Wednesday for the "super Congress" deficit committee slated with findin...

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Obama Ignites Partisan Firestorm

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Gerry Connolly, President Barack Obama, Budget, Emanuel Cleaver, John Larson, Elections 2012, Jeb Hensarling, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Fiscal Policy, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama succeeded in uniting his party and reminding Republicans who lives in the White House with his first major fiscal...

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GOP Rep: Congress Deserves To Be 'Tarred And Feathered'

Posted 06.10.2011

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Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) reacted to a budget deal struck between Democratic and Republican leaders late on Friday to avert a government shutdown ...

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Ex-Shell President: Big Oil Doesn't Need Government Help

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward Markey, House GOP, Oil Subsidies, Oil, American Petroleum Institute, Robert Andrews, Jeb Hensarling, Mike Pence, House Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A former top oil executive said on Thursday that big oil companies don't need government help, inserting a new dynamic into the debate o...

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A Freshmen Revolt: GOP Fights For More Spending Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans announced on Thursday that they would seek to cut $100 billion from President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2011 budget...

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Money Changes Everything: Will the Battle Over the Budget Derail All Bipartisan Cooperation in 2011?

Eileen McMenamin | Posted 05.25.2011

A collection of senior lawmakers gathered at a Washington panel last Wednesday to reflect on the possibility of cooperation across party lines in the 112th Congress.

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Top Conservatives Turned Off by Tax Deal's Inclusion of Unemployment Benefits

Matt Finkelstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Tom Coburn, Jeb Hensarling, Michele Bachmann, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

One would expect the GOP to be thrilled with the president's acceptance of tax cuts for the wealthy, by far the biggest concession in the deal. But there are already grumblings.

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Women's Group Takes Aim At 'Boehner's Boys'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Speaker John Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, Rep. John Boehner, John Boehner, Emilys List, Boehners Boys, Eric Cantor, Stephanie Schriock, Jeb Hensarling, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- EMILY's List, the political action committee aimed at electing pro-choice Democratic women to public office, is launching a new campaign...

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Who Wins Leadership Battles That Never Happen?

Asher Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Politics News, Michele Bachmann, 112th Congress, Heath Shuler, Nancy Pelosi, Jeb Hensarling, Jim Clyburn, Congress, Senate Majority Leader, North Carolina, Politics News

Tangible victories may have been hard to find for non-establishment figures, but these symbolic victories may very well hold more meaning.

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