Posts Tagged ‘relief’

GOP: Offsetting cuts must cover payroll tax relief (AP)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, flanked by  Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., left, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011,  following a closed-door meeting. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – Republican congressional leaders stressed a willingness Wednesday to extend a Social Security payroll tax cut due to expire Dec. 31, setting up a year-end clash with Democrats over how to pay for a provision at the heart of President Barack Obama’s jobs program.


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Medicare relief: premiums not as high as feared (AP)

AP – Medicare’s basic monthly premium will be much lower than expected next year, the government announced Thursday. That could pay political dividends for President Barack Obama and for Democrats struggling to win over seniors in a close election.

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Obama offers mortgage relief on western trip (AP)

CORRECTS YEAR - President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP – The Obama administration offered mortgage relief on Monday to hundreds of thousands of Americans in the latest attempt to ease the economic and political fallout of a housing crisis that has bedeviled President Barack Obama as he seeks a second term.


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Lupica: Khadafy death sparks relief & memories

On the day when he finds out that Moammar Khadafy is finally dead in Libya, Brian Flynn is 19 again and getting ready to drive with his mother and his sisters to JFK to pick up his brother J.P., returning from his semester in London.

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Relief, anger at mosque where al-Awlaki preached (AP)

A woman waits at the gates of the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. U.S. air strikes in Yemen on Friday killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American militant cleric at the mosque, who became a prominent figure in the terror network's most dangerous branch, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits for attacks in the United States. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP – At the Washington-area mosque where Anwar al-Awlaki preached a decade ago, there were few tears over the death of the influential al-Qaida figure who more than anyone gave the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center its unwanted association with international terrorism. But some found the way he was killed to be un-American.


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Flood worries and some relief in Irene’s wake (AP)

Sixth Avenue near Radio City Music Hall is empty as Tropical Storm Irene hits in New York, on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Seawater surged into the streets of Manhattan on Sunday as Irene slammed into New York, downgraded from a hurricane but still unleashing furious wind and rain. The flooding threatened Wall Street and the heart of the global financial network. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP – Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power — but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared.


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Bondy: No relief in Mets’ long-term plan

The Mets’ third straight loss – a dramatic 7-3 defeat to the Florida Marlins in 10 innings on Monday – would be of little importance, except the Atlanta Braves have dropped two in a row and six of 10. There was a small, real chance for the Mets to make a serious wild-card move, if Sandy Alderson hadn’t exiled both Francisco Rodriguez and Carlos Beltran.

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