Posts Tagged ‘increase’
GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block (AP)
AP – News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes.
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Bernanke: Default on debt would increase deficit (AP)
AP – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned U.S. lawmakers Thursday that they would deliver a “self-inflicted” wound to the nation’s economy by holding up efforts to raise the government’s borrowing limit.
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McConnell, Boehner increase criticism of Obama (AP)
AP – The top two Republicans in Congress sought Tuesday to put the onus on President Barack Obama for failure to resolve a fight over how to increase the government’s borrowing authority. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said a deal with Obama is “probably unattainable” and House Speaker John Boehner said the specter of default is “his problem.”
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House rejects debt limit increase without cuts (AP)
AP – House Republicans dealt defeat to their own proposal for a $2.4 trillion increase in the nation’s debt limit Tuesday, a political gambit designed to reinforce a demand for spending cuts to accompany any increase in government borrowing.
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House to reject debt limit increase without cuts (AP)
AP – House Republicans lined up to reject their own proposed $2.4 trillion increase in the nation’s debt limit Tuesday, a political gambit designed to reinforce a demand for spending cuts to accompany any increase in government borrowing.
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Ray Lewis: Crime will increase without NFL
It’s more than not having a reason to look forward to Mondays. If the NFL and NFLPA can’t come to an agreement in their labor dispute, one Baltimore Ravens’ veteran believes society as a whole will pay because there will be more violent crime.
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President Obama will increase oil and gas drilling in the US in attempt to lower fuel prices
President Obama announced Saturday that he was ramping up oil and gas drilling in the U.S. – but city drivers fed up with sky high gas prices said it was too little, too late.
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