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| Brinksmanship on Obama Medicaid expansion for poor Sun, 02 Dec, 2012 09:13 AM PST Brinksmanship on Obama Medicaid expansion for poor Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 8:43 a.m., Sunday, December 2, 2012 President Barack Obama's health care law expands Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income people, but cost-wary states must decide whether ... 'Cliff' talks: Geithner invites GOP counteroffer Sun, 02 Dec, 2012 09:11 AM PST WASHINGTONâ€"President Barack Obama is ready to entertain Republican proposals for spending cuts, but GOP lawmakers must first commit to higher tax rates on the rich and specify what additional spending cuts they want in a deal to avoid the looming "fiscal cliff," Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said. U.S.'s Geithner predicts Republicans will allow higher tax rates reuters.com Sun, 02 Dec, 2012 09:08 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's top fiscal negotiator pressed Republicans on Sunday to offer specifics on deficit reduction, and predicted they would agree to raise tax rates on the rich to secure a year-end deal to avoid possible economic doom. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said "I can't promise" that the United States won't go over a looming "fiscal cliff ... Fiscal Cliff 2013: Divided Government â€" Hardly The Condition To Solve The Nation’s Problems Sun, 02 Dec, 2012 09:08 AM PST Roughly four weeks after the historic day President Barack Obama convincingly won re-election, there’s good news and bad news out of Washington regarding the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ talks. Washington Calendar: Washington events for Dec. 3 - 7 Sun, 02 Dec, 2012 09:06 AM PST President Barack Obama addresses business leaders, the latest look at the nation’s employment picture, ongoing fiscal-cliff negotiations and other key news events and economic indicators in Washington during the week. Led Zeppelin members in DC to receive Kennedy Center Honors, accolades from Obama, Clinton Sun, 02 Dec, 2012 09:03 AM PST WASHINGTON - Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant says he's game to write new songs if anybody else wants to. Plant visited the State Department in Washington on Saturday with the other surviving members of the legendary rock band, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page. They are among seven artists... Geithner pushes fiscal deal Sun, 02 Dec, 2012 09:01 AM PST Updated 11:43 am ET President Barack Obama’s fiscal cliff negotiator, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, predicted on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that congressional Republicans will accept Obama’s plan to raise income tax rates and limit deductions on people making $200,000 and over. Grover Norquist: Beware of a second tea party wave Sun, 02 Dec, 2012 08:55 AM PST Anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist said Sunday that if President Obama pushes the nation over the "fiscal cliff," there will be a tea party backlash stronger than the movement that influenced the 2010 midterm elections. Read full article >> RALPH NADER: Reining in Obama and His Drones Sun, 02 Dec, 2012 08:50 AM PST Barack Obama, former president of the Harvard Law Review and a constitutional law lecturer, should go back and review his coursework. He seems to have declined to comport his presidency to the rule of law. Rep. Tom Cole: Republicans Don't Need to Present a Plan Yet us.news.abcnews.otus Sun, 02 Dec, 2012 08:50 AM PST Republicans don’t need to counter President Obama’s proposal to avert the fiscal cliff with a formal plan of their own, according to Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., the deputy majority whip in the House of Representatives. “I don’t think we need to put a formal proposal out... | |
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