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House budget chair questions Pentagon budget cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon budget for next year is dishonest and generals who have endorsed it on Capitol Hill are not giving Congress their “true advice,” a senior Republican lawmaker on budget matters said on Thursday amid rising rhetoric over looming defense cuts. Representative Paul Ryan, head of the budget committee of the House of Representatives, said the defense budget President Barack Obama sent to Congress last month was driven by spending constraints and not by the new U.S. military strategy unveiled in January. “We don’t think the generals are giving us their true advice. …
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House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plans
Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama’s call to raise taxes on the rich.
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NH House to weigh gay marriage repeal vote
New Hampshire lawmakers are considering whether to take the first step toward making their state legislature the first one to repeal a gay marriage law, even as the governor threatens a veto.
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Obama salutes Iraq war vets at White House dinner (AP)
AP – With a formal dinner for the few, President Barack Obama on Wednesday paid solemn tribute to the many.
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Maryland House passes gay marriage bill
The effort to legalize gay marriage has passed a long-standing hurdle in the Maryland House of Delegates. The House voted 71-67 Friday to give gay couples the right to marry.
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House passes payroll tax cut, jobless benefit bill (AP)
AP – The GOP-controlled House has passed a bill renewing a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more, backing the main items on President Barak Obama’s jobs agenda in a rare burst of bipartisanship.
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House leaders praise emerging payroll tax cut deal (AP)
AP – Congressional leaders of both parties praised an emerging deal Wednesday to extend a payroll tax cut and extra jobless benefits through 2012, but cautioned that bargainers still had to nail down final details.
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