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Spending measure clears Senate
15 hours ago ago from Lawyer Journal
The Senate cleared for President Obama's signature on Sunday a $447 billion omnibus spending bill that contains thousands of earmarks and double-digit increases for several Cabinet agencies, the latest target for Republicans seeking to make growing federal deficits a focal point of the 2010 elections. The House may vote this week to raise the federal debt ceiling by at least $1.8 trillion, as the current limit is set to be breached by ...
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16 hours ago ago from New America Today
Senator Kent Conrad speaking at a news conference last week on fiscal issues. He supports creating a deficit-cutting panel. THE NEW YORK TIMES CARL HULSE The Senate on Sunday approved a $446.8 billion spending package that will keep much of the federal government running through next September. But even as they sent the spending measure to President Obama, Democrats were deeply divided over efforts to ...
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12 hours ago ago from 1490 NewsBlog
House Democrats have voted down the House Republicans' attempt to interrupt the vote on Senate Bill 711 and immediately vote funding for Penn State, Pitt, Lincoln & Temple. Thank you, Scott Little!
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14 hours ago ago from Frugal Hoosiers
It must be liberating to be Baron Hill these days. After nearly a decade of pretending he is a frugal Hoosier, he's finally decided to embrace his big-spending attitude. We missed it last week, but on Thursday, House Democrats passed a pork-laden, deficit-swelling spending bill . WASHINGTON Capitol Hill Democrats are muscling through a deficit-swelling spending bill, giving domestic programs their third major boost this year and ...
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Democrats clear spending bill in Senate
1 day ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
The Senate cleared for President Obama's signature on Sunday a $447 billion omnibus spending bill that contains thousands of earmarks and double-digit increases for several Cabinet agencies, the latest target for Republicans seeking to make growing federal deficits a focal point of the 2010 elections. The House may vote this week to raise the federal debt ceiling by at least $1.8 trillion, as the current limit is set to be breached by New ...
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3 hours ago ago from The New York Times
Filed at 8:42 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from historic health care legislation Monday in hopes of assuring Christmas-week passage of the bill to extend coverage to tens of millions. ''Democrats aren't going to let the American people down,'' Majority Leader Harry Reid said after a closed-door meeting called to discuss last-minute trade-offs in ...
Related contentAndy Ostroy: The Economy is Recovering, No Thanks to Republicans
13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
It's the Democrats' economy, stupid. One year ago the United States economy was on the precipice of catastrophic meltdown. One year later America's financial system, while not thriving, is surely showing signs of surviving and climbing back from its abysmal state, with a broad range of economic indicators signaling the early stages of recovery. The economy is indeed turning, and it's done so with absolutely no assistance from Republicans, ...
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23 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
President Obama , who lashed out Sunday at fat cat bankers who still don't get it, plans to gather the heads of major banks at the White House on Monday to urge them to make more loans and to accept the necessity of greater regulation. Obama convened a similar meeting with bank executives in March, and the need for a replay highlights the lack of progress in the interim. The banking industry has reduced lending for five consecutive ...
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21 hours ago ago from The New York Times
On the gargantuan budget deficit, the first problem for Democrats is political: voters fear overspending but want action to create jobs, which costs money. Blog The second problem is economic. Curbing the deficit now, under Keynesian theories that Democrats still embrace, might crimp recovery from the Great Recession. The third problem is scale. Trillion-dollar deficits are not just unprecedented; they are ...
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