Posts Tagged ‘democratic’
House GOP budget retains Democratic Medicare cuts (AP)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
AP – Their defeat on the Senate floor is predictable and the speeches have the ring of the recent campaign season.
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