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House GOP budget retains Democratic Medicare cuts (AP)

FILE - In this April 5, 2011 photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. touts his 2012 federal budget during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.   House Republicans are backing the cuts to Medicare called for in the 2012 budget proposed by Ryan. Those cuts account for a significant share of the $5.8 trillion Ryan claims his budget will save over the next decade.  The House is expected to vote on Ryan’s 2012 budget blueprint this week.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – In a postelection reversal, House Republicans are supporting nearly $450 billion in Medicare cuts that they criticized vigorously last fall when Democrats and President Barack Obama passed them as part of their controversial health care law.


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Senate rejects rival GOP, Democratic budgets (AP)

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, left, and Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, president pro temper of the Senate, talk while awaiting Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, on a day of contentious voting on spending legislation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Late Wednesday, the Senate rejected competing Republican and Democratic spending bills in a bit of Capitol theatre designed to demonstrate that the combatants must meet somewhere in the middle. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – The Democratic-led Senate on Wednesday emphatically rejected a budget-slashing House spending bill as too draconian. It then immediately killed a rival Democratic plan that was derided by moderate Democrats as too timid in its drive to cut day-to-day agency budgets.


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Senate to vote on rival GOP, Democratic budgets (AP)

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., center, takes a question during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011, before introducing the Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act, legislation that would give the president line-item veto authority. From left are: Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Manchin, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – In a demonstration of official Washington’s often curious logic, the Senate is expected to vote down both a slashing GOP budget bill and a less painful Democratic plan to demonstrate progress instead of gridlock.


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Obama to meet with Democratic leaders (AP)

In this photo released by CBS Democrat Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., left, and Republican Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., discuss the Senate’s agenda during the lame duck session on CBS News' 'Face the Nation' Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher)  NO ARCHIVES. NO SALES.AP – Officials say President Barack Obama is about to meet with House and Senate Democratic leaders to firm up their strategy before negotiating with Republicans over extending tax cuts and jobless benefits.


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GOP block Democratic tax plans on upper-incomes (AP)

Democrats Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., speak outside of the U.S. Senate Chamber during a rare Saturday lame duck Senate session on Capitol Hill in Washington Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010. The Senate agenda features a pair of votes, one on a proposal to extend all expiring tax cuts on individuals with incomes of less than $200,000 a year and married couples making less than $250,000; the other to renew them for all tax filers with incomes of less than $1 million.  (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP – Senate Republicans blocked legislation Saturday to let upper-income tax cuts expire on Jan. 1, a showdown scripted by Democrats eager to showcase GOP lawmakers as defenders of millionaires.


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Senate to vote on Democratic tax plans (AP)

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., right, accompanied by, from left, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, to discuss proposals to continue the Bush era tax cuts. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – Their defeat on the Senate floor is predictable and the speeches have the ring of the recent campaign season.


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Senate to vote on Democratic tax cut plans (AP)

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., right, accompanied by, from left, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, to discuss proposals to continue the Bush era tax cuts. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – Their defeat on the Senate floor is predictable and the speeches have the ring of the recent campaign season.


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