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Politics News & Analysis: Democratic congressman from North Carolina angers supporters by voting against health-care bill

6 hours ago ago from Diogenes-light

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Taxpayers slapped in the face three times in one day

23 hours ago ago from United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government

Taxpayers were got slapped in the face three times yesterday by President Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress. The first was the president signing a bloated $1.1 trillion spending bill , which passed Congress over the weekend: President Barack Obama has signed into law a $1.1 trillion bill that increases the budgets in many areas of the government by about 10 percent, including health, law enforcement and veterans' ...

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Health-care reform: Shopping across state lines

22 hours ago ago from Consumer Reports Health Blog

Can buying an out-of state plan save you money? Both the Senate and House health-care reform bills have provisions that might allow individual health plans licensed in one state to sell policies in other states. The idea is that consumers would benefit through competition, potentially leading to more choice and lower premiums. But some worry that any discounts could come at the cost of consumer protections, and 31 House Democrats sent a ...

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Greenspan: Commission to Shrink the Deficit Is Excellent Idea' - Washington Wire - WSJ

3 hours ago ago from Washington Wire - WSJ

By John D. McKinnon Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan likes the idea of a bipartisan deficit-reduction commission. At a Senate committee hearing, Greenspan called the proposal for a commission, pushed by Sens. Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) and Judd Gregg (R., N.H.), an excellent idea. Adding a dash of urgency, he also gave a grim assessment of the U.S. governments deficit picture, saying the challenge to contain this ...

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Wrap-up bill likely to clear Senate hurdle | Business Blog

15 hours ago ago from Business Blog

Must-pass legislation that wraps up the bulk of the remaining congressional agenda besides health care was expected to easily clear a Senate hurdle in the wee hours of Friday. Anchored by a $626 billion Pentagon funding bill, the measure also carries short- Government - United States Congress - United States Senate - United States - Congress View original post here: Wrap-up bill likely to clear Senate hurdle You ...

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Greenspan: Commission to Shrink the Deficit Is ‘Excellent Idea’ - Washington Wire - WSJ

18 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

By John D. McKinnon Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan likes the idea of a bipartisan deficit-reduction commission. At a Senate committee hearing, Greenspan called the proposal for a commission, pushed by Sens. Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) and Judd Gregg (R., N.H.), an excellent idea. Adding a dash of urgency, he also gave a grim assessment of the U.S. governments deficit picture, saying the challenge to contain this threat is ...

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German Upper House Approves Stimulus Bill

3 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

BERLIN -- Chancellor Angela Merkel won an important victory Friday as the German upper house of parliament approved a bill that seeks to pump an additional 8.5 billion ($12.19 billion) of fiscal stimulus into the economy next year. The bill, known as the Rapid Economic Stimulus Law, is the first major project of Ms. Merkel's new center-right government. It aims to bolster the country's recovery from recession and foresees tax relief for ...

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Bob Burnett: 2009's Worst Person of the Year: The US Senate

1 hour, 1 minute ago ago from Huffington Post

At the end of a decade marked by a general failure of US leadership, 2009 saw the collapse of the Senate. Confronted with an array of difficult problems, a reactionary Senatorial minority put their personal political interests above those of the nation and blocked action by the progressive majority. While polls don't differentiate between levels of support for the House of Representatives and the Senate, the long-term trend is down. At the ...

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Trumka: Senate Bill As Is Will Die In The House

13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

The head of the most powerful union group in the country said on Thursday that the Senate version of the health care bill will not survive a vote in the House without substantial changes. Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, told the Huffington Post that both he and his members are "extremely disappointed" with the compromises conservative Democrats extracted from Senate leaders. Rather than formally opposing the bill, he expressed ...

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10 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business

The 34 names are familiar to anyone who has followed economic policy in Washington for the past generation, one-third of them former chairmen or members of key committees of Congress, seven of them former directors of the White House Office of Management and Budget, two of them former comptroller generals of the United States, seven of them former directors of the Congressional Budget Office, and one of them -- Paul Volcker -- a former ...

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