Judd Gregg

Hands Off Our Social Security

Ashley B. Carson | Posted 12.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: Women, Aging, Older Women, Social Security, Federal Budget Deficit, Pay Equity, Survivor Benefits, Kent Conrad, Retirement, Judd Gregg, Medicare, Older Women's League, Owl, Impact News
Ashley B. Carson

If Social Security were a private company, its shareholders would be very pleased, as it ran a surplus of $180 billion last year and accumulated a reserve of $2.4 trillion. This is the only government program to run a surplus.

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Jason Linkins

White House Considers Punting Deficit Problem To 'Bipartisan' Commission

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Budget Deficits, Social Security, Politics News, Deficit Commission, Judd Gregg, Medicaid, Medicare, Kent Conrad, Barack Obama, Politics News

CNN reports today that President Barack Obama is now "seriously considering" using an executive order to spur the creation of that high-toned monument...

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Jason Linkins

Washington Post Now 'Panicking' Over Deficits

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Budget Deficits, Social Security, Politics News, Fearmongering, Deficit Commission, Judd Gregg, Medicaid, Medicare, Washington Post, Kent Conrad, Politics News

It's the nattering of the Post's Sudden Deficit Hawks, screeching about how "It's time to stop worrying about the deficit -- and start panicking about the debt."

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Pete Peterson Teams Up with Kent Conrad to Undermine Democracy, Slash Social Security and Medicare, and Weaken Fragile Recovery.

Roger Hickey | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Debt, Roger Hickey, Kent Conrad, Economic Crisis, Judd Gregg, Economic Recovery, Budget Deficit, Campaign for America's Future, Peter Peterson, Social Security, Medicare, Politics News
Roger Hickey

Hedge fund mogul Peter Peterson and his Commission on Budget Reform are selling an undemocratic new budget process that would take the responsibility for budget-making away from the president and the committees of Congress.

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Jason Linkins

Deficit Commission Proposal Designed As A Horrorshow Of Legislative Dysfunction

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Budget Deficits, Politics News, Social Security, Deficit Commission, Judd Gregg, Medicaid, Medicare, Kent Conrad, Politics News

Congressional creatures have been astir lately, with plans to shift the decision-making process on curbing deficits to a blue-ribbon commission that w...

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"Daily Show" Mocks Senate Health Care Debate (VIDEO)

Posted 12.08.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Judd Gregg, Video, Health Care Debate, Daily Show Health Care, Comedy News

Taking on the seemingly endless health care debate, Jon Stewart mocked the Senate's claim that they were working through the weekend with "no end in s...

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Sam Stein

Gregg Defends His Obstructionist Manifesto

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Obstruction Manual, Gop Obstruction Manual, Obstruction Manual, Gregg Obstructionism, Health Care Republicans, Health Care, Judd Gregg, Gregg, Healthcare, Politics News

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) took to the floor of the Senate on Thursday morning to defend the health care reform obstructionist manifesto he penned a day...

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Sam Stein

GOP Senator Pens Obstruction Manual For Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gregg, Judd Gregg, Gregg Obstructionism, Health Care Republicans, Republican Obstruction Manual, Gop Obstruction Manual, Obstruction Manual, Health Care Obstruction Manual, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

Sen. Judd Gregg, (R-NH) has penned the equivalent of an obstruction manual -- a how-to for holding up health care reform -- and has distributed the do...

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Deficit Commission Gains Traction In White House

Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, National Debt, Deficit Panel, Kent Conrad, Spending, Judd Gregg, Deficit Commission, Medicare, Democrats, Senate Budget Committee, Republicans, Politics News

A bi-partisan commission that would tame the federal deficit by limiting cost-cutting decisions to a select number of lawmakers is gaining traction in...

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Jason Linkins

Pat Buchanan's Disagrees With 'Obama Is The New Nixon' Comparisons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Pat Buchanan, Video, Richard Nixon, Judd Gregg, Barack Obama, Media News

Pat Buchanan, who was a close confidant of Nixon, recently scoffed at the idea that the Obama White House is comparable to Nixon, calling it "idiotic," because, duh, Nixon was a historically unlovable bastard-creature, who left trails of foul-smelling ichor all over the Oval Office, like a slug. And no one liked Nixon, except for the "Perotistas, and what you might call the tea-party folk" who loved him immensely. Irony!

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The Wyden - Bennett Healthy Americans Act: Why Not Just Say Yes?

Lanny Davis | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Nelson, Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Wyden-Bennett-Healthy-Americans-Act, Maria Cantwell, Lamar Alexander, Bob Bennett, Judd Gregg, Tom Carper, Daniel Inouye, Ezra Klein, David Brooks, Mike-Crapo, Politics News
Lanny Davis

What exactly does the HAA accomplish that could possibly attract such broad, bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate? Universal health insurance coverage and immediate deficit neutrality in the first two years.

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Cloture Passes On Cass Sunstein, 63-35

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Blanche Lincoln, Cloture, Robert Bennett, Olympia Snowe, Orrin Hatch, Filibuster, Judd Gregg, Glen Beck, Cass Sunstein, Barack Obama, James Webb, Richard Lugar, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Politics News

On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of ...

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Reconciliation May Force A Public Option Too Liberal For Some Dems

Talking Points Memo | Brian Beutler | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Harry Reid, Judd Gregg, Democratic Senate, Republican Filibuster, Healthcare Reform, Budget Reconciliation, Politics News

As Senate leaders begin work on a Democrat-only health care bill, they're finding themselves confronted with an unexpected irony: Though the caucus ha...

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Senate GOPers: We'll Block Health Care Under Reconciliation

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judd Gregg, Robert Byrd, Senate Budget Committee, Healthcare Reform, Ted Kennedy, George W. Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

Sen. Judd Gregg has hundreds of procedural objections ready for a healthcare plan Democrats leaders want to speed through the Senate....

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GOP Sen. Gregg To Vote For Sotomayor

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sotomayor, Judd Gregg, Judd Gregg Vote, Sotomayor Vote, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Judd Gregg says he'll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with most of his fellow Republicans....

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Bank Bailout Fund: $328 Billion Still Remains

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Tim Geithner, Barney Frank, Treasury Department, Judd Gregg, Bailout Funds, Bailout, Bank Bailout, Government Accountability Office, Business News

WASHINGTON — The government has tens of billions of dollars left in the eye-popping $700 billion bank bailout fund created last fall, prompting ...

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Olbermann: Bush Returns To Make "World's Worst Person" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judd Gregg, Video, Msnbc, George Bush Worst Person in the World Video, George Bush, Worst Persons in the World Video, Keith Olbermann and George Bush, Keith Olbermann, Newt Gingrich, Worst Persons in the World, George Bush Worst Person Int He World Video, Keith Olbermann Video, Countdown, Politics News

The 'Worst Persons in the World' tonight on "Countdown" included Republican Senator Judd Gregg, Newt Gingrich, and former President George W. Bush. G...

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Dem Sen Hits Back At Judd Gregg: We'd Prefer Karl Marx To Darth Vader On Health Care

nytimes.com | David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Judd Gregg, Senators Fighting, Darth Vader, New Health Care Bill, Health Care, Barbara Mikulski, Karl Marx, Politics News

Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, delivered a brutal critique this morning of the draft health care legislation put forward by Democrat...

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Is Congress Driving Drunk?

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Congress, Economic Stimulus Package, Bailout, Sam Brownback, Ugly Betty, Judd Gregg, Dancing With the Stars, Auto Industry, Cars, Politics News
Ashley Rindsberg

Unless urgent action is taken a sensible, environmentally responsible, and economically meaningful piece of legislation will be sunk by a procedural rule.

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Five Current Republican Senators Voted For Sotomayor in '98

Politico | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Orin Hatch, Gop, Susan Collins, Senate, Arlen Specter, Robert Bennett, President-Obama-Supreme-Court, Olympia Snowe, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Judd Gregg, Thad Cochran, Richard Lugar, Politics News

A bit of relevant history: Five Seven current Senate Republicans -- plus Arlen Specter -- voted for Sonia Sotomayor during her highly contested federa...

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Same-Sex Marriage Passes NH House/Senate: Heated Battle Awaits Governor's Decision

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Judd Gregg, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, New Hampshire, Gay Marriage New Hampshire, Politics News
Jennifer Donahue

"Any person ... may marry any other eligible person regardless of gender," is the wording of the House and Senate passed bill now on the Governor's desk in New Hampshire.

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Sen. Gregg Makes Up "Light Switch Tax" To Bash Obama Budget

Washington Monthly | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judd Gregg, Obama Budget, GOP Budget, Light Switch Tax, Sen-Judd-Gregg, Politics News

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A 'LIGHT-SWITCH TAX'.... In an apparent effort to be an even more shameless hack, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) argues in a Washin...

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Get on Board or Get Outta the Way

Lance Simmens | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stimulus, Economy, Kevin Phillips, Judd Gregg, Conservatives, Reaganomics, Politics News
Lance Simmens

Is the faux-fiscal responsibility conviction merely a convenient excuse to say no when difficult political decisions require foresight and sacrifice?

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Learning Deficits

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Republican Obstruction, Deficits, Budget, Rush Limbaugh, Financial Crisis, Obama Budget, Judd Gregg, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

Will Obama's transformative budget survive? As his press conference last night illustrated, it runs a serious risk of drowning in a swamp of cant.

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Ryan Grim

Republican Leaders Split On Geithner Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public-Private Investment Program, Mitch McConnell, Judd Gregg, Timothy Geithner, Politics News

Republican leaders in Congress offered a range of reactions on Monday to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's plan to partner with private investors to b...

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