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Handling of jobs speech timing blurs White House message

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Tom Cohen - Sep. 01 (News Report) - A day after the usually non-controversial act of scheduling a presidential speech to Congress became a high-profile political dispute, President Barack Obama and the White House struggled Thursday to refocus the nation on the jobs package he will present rather than a backroom showdown labeled as childish and nonsense. On Wednesday night, the White House agreed to move Obama's special address to a joint session of Congress back one day -- from September 7 to September 8 -- after Republican complaints and follow-up consultations with House Speaker John Boehner.

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Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Matt Taibbi - Aug. 17 (Investigative Report) - Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime channel specials where the murderer is unveiled after

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Dems suggest compromise on debt

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Carrie Budoff Brown - Jul. 29 (Breaking News) - Politico - The president would be able to lift the debt ceiling unless two-thirds of both chambers override his veto.

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For Boehner, Lofty Budget Goals Checked by Reality

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Carl Hulse - Jul. 11 (News Report) - At a private meeting about deficit reduction at the White House last week, Speaker John A. Boehner told his fellow Congressional leaders and President Obama that he did not spend 20 years working his way up to the top job on Capitol Hill just for the cachet of the title — he wanted to accomplish something big.

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No Grand Bargain: Boehner Walks Away From Big Deficit Deal

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Jay Newton Small - Jul. 10 (News Report) - After days of hype in Washington, House Speaker John Boehner threw cold water on the prospect of a grand bargain on deficit reduction Saturday night, effectively scaling back negotiations on a deal tied to the effort to raise the debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. “Despite good-faith efforts to find common ground, the White House will not pursue a bigger debt reduction agreement without tax hikes,” Boehner said in a statement. “I believe the best approach may be to focus on producing a smaller measure, based on the cuts identified in the Biden-led negotiations, that still meets our call for spending reforms and cuts greater than the amount of any debt limit increase.” The decision to seek a smaller, $2 trillion deal (door No. 2, as it turns out) came after an afternoon call between Boehner and Obama. Boehner suggested dealing with most revenue issues in a sweeping tax reform bill later in the year, a GOP leadership source said, but Democrats demanded that significant revenue increases be part of the debt ceiling deal — something Boehner felt couldn’t pass the House. Talks also broke down, the GOP source said, over cuts to entitlements — a measure House Democratic leaders have long said their members can’t swallow.

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Harry Reid cancels Senate July 4 recess after Obama chides Congress

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - Jun. 30 (News) - Senate will stay in session next week, Senate leader announces one day after Obama tells Congress to get to work on a debt limit deal Read more by CBSNews.com staff on CBS News' Political Hotsheet.

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Inside Nancy Pelosi’s drive to win the House majority back for Democrats

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Karen Tumulty, Paul Kane - Jun. 27 (News Report) - Nancy Pelosi no longer has a balcony with the grandest view in Washington. The size of her staff has been cut by a third. And it took months, she said, to get rid of the smell of cigarette smoke from the second-floor suite she received in her swap with now-House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio).

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Business group: Public companies shouldn’t have to compare CEO and worker pay

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Peter Whoriskey - Jun. 24 (News Report) - a group backed by 81 major companies — including McDonald’s, Lowe’s, General Dynamics, American Airlines, IBM and General Mills — is lobbying against new rules that would force disclosure of that comparison.

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House May Vote This Week on Money for Libya Strikes

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jennifer Steinhauer - Jun. 20 (News) - The House appears likely to vote this week on a measure that would limit financing for the American military efforts in Libya, using the chamber’s appropriations power to push back against the White House, which did not seek Congressional authorization for the mission.

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With Weiner's exit, is his House seat safe for Democrats?

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:49:20 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ron Scherer, Patrick Wall - Jun. 17 (News Analysis) - The House seat that disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner (D) of New York gave up on Thursday has long been considered bona fide Democratic territory, bolstered by a 3-to-1 party advantage in registered voters. But local Republicans have more than a glimmer of hope now that Mr. Weiner has resigned, after having tweeted lewd photos of himself to various women and lied about it.

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Anthony Weiner to resign

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:54:09 -0700

The Politico - By Maggie Haberman, Jennifer Epstein - Jun. 16 (News) - According to two sources, Weiner made up his mind to resign Wednesday night.

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The Electoral Effect of Sex Scandals

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By NATE SILVER - Jun. 12 (News Analysis) - One point frequently raised in the coverage of Representative Anthony D. Weiner is that David Vitter, the Lousiana Senator who in 2007 acknowledged that he was a longtime client of a Washington-based prostitution service, did not resign his seat. In fact, Mr. Vitter won re-election with 56.6 percent of the vote last November. It’s not clear, however, that Mr. Vitter paid no price at all with his constituents. Mr. Vitter’s 19-percentage point margin of victory over his Democratic opponent, Representative Charlie Melancon, was quite solid. But incumbent Republican senators in five other Southern states — Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma and South Carolina — won their elections by an average of 28 percentage points. (That’s what happens when you’re an incumbent in a very Republican part of the country in a very Republican year.) Perhaps a better comparison is to look at Mr. Vitter’s results against those of the four Republican incumbents in the House of Representatives who ran against Democratic opposition in Louisiana last year. These were the incumbents in the First, Second, Fourth and Sixth Congressional Districts. (Louisiana’s Third Congressional District had no incumbent, while the Republican incumbents in the Fifth and Seventh Districts did not have a Democratic challenger.)

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Reid's advice to Weiner: "Call somebody else"

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Washington Post Staff - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Call somebody else.

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House rejects proposal to raise debt ceiling

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Lori Montgomery, Paul Kane - Jun. 01 (News) - With an August deadline looming, the House overwhelmingly refused Tuesday to raise the legal limit on government borrowing, setting the stage for a long, sweaty summer of haggling over the shape of the largest debt-reduction package in at least two decades.

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Patriot Act surveillance provisions extended in nick of time

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Reuters - May. 27 (News) - The US Congress, racing the clock and rejecting demands for additional safeguards of civil liberties, passed a bill on Thursday to renew three expiring provisions of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act. Barack Obama, who is in Europe, signed it into law short

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Republicans Are Optimistic of Winning a Majority in the Senate

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Carl Hulse - May. 15 (News Analysis) - Just two years after watching Democrats claim a 60th seat in the Senate, Republicans are heading into the 2012 election season well positioned to challenge them for control of the chamber, giving the party reason for optimism even as it worries about the strength of its presidential field.

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Boehner Builds Economic Case on Assertions at Odds With Markets, Studies

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By James Rowley, Mike Dorning - May. 11 (News Analysis) - House Speaker John Boehner, giving Wall Street leaders his prescriptions for growing the U.S. economy and reducing the nation’s debt, built his case on several assertions that are contradicted by market indicators and government reports.

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Boehner Must Reassure Markets on Debt Ceiling

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By James Rowley - May. 09 (News Report) - House Speaker John Boehner’s appearance before Wall Street leaders tonight challenges him to provide reassurance that Congress will raise the U.S. debt limit without undercutting Republican demands for spending controls.

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House G.O.P. Members Face Voter Anger Over Budget

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jennifer Steinhauer, Carl Hulse - Apr. 27 (News) - In central Florida, a Congressional town meeting erupted into near chaos on Tuesday as attendees accused a Republican lawmaker of trying to dismantle Medicare while providing tax cuts to corporations and affluent Americans.

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House votes to restrict unions

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Michael Levenson - Apr. 27 (News) - House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last night to strip police officers, teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain over health care, saying the change would save millions of dollars for financially strapped cities and towns.

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DOMA defense in turmoil

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:53:34 -0700

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - Apr. 25 (News Report) - The House of Representatives' courtroom defense of the Defense of Marriage Act suffered a serious jolt Monday after the law firm the House hired to argue the law's constitutionality in up to a dozen pending court challenges withdrew - and the former solicitor general heading up the defense resigned from the firm to stay on the case.

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Defunding healthcare, Planned Parenthood passes House, fails Senate

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Hill - By Pete Kasperowicz - Apr. 15 (News) - Voting on the amendments is part of the budget deal, and both chambers split their votes along party lines. Read more...

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Obama Reached Breaking Point in Budget Talks After Tense Hour With Boehner

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By Lisa Lerer - Apr. 11 (News) - The tense negotiations culminating in a last-minute deal the next night to avert a government shutdown underscored the challenges facing both Boehner and Obama as they tackle the fiscal issues that will dominate the debate during the next two years in Washington.

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Just In Time, A Deal To Avert Government Shutdown

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - Apr. 08 (News Report) - Congressional leaders and President Obama reached a budget agreement a little more than an hour before a midnight deadline for avoiding a partial shutdown of the federal government. The agreement, which would slash about $38 billion in spending this year, was announced separately by the president, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). "We have agreed to an historic amount of cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year, as well as a short-term bridge that will give us time to avoid a shutdown while we get that agreement through both houses and to the president," Reid said in a joint statement with Boehner. Obama hailed the deal as "the biggest annual spending cut in history," and Boehner said that over the next decade it would cut government spending by $500 billion.

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Barack Obama praises government shutdown deal

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Carrie Budoff Brown - Apr. 08 (News Report) - President Barack Obama announced a deal late Friday to avert a government shutdown, saying Democrats and Republicans agreed to “a budget that invests in our future while making the largest annual spending cuts in our history.” In a televised statement from the White House shortly after 11 p.m. - minutes after House Speaker John Boehner confirmed the deal to reporters at the Capitol - Obama said the agreement forced tough choices and made difficult spending cuts, but that it largely sidesteps social issues that Democrats viewed as extraneous.

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