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Negotiators reach tentative payroll tax cut pact (AP)

02.15.2012 · Posted in Latest News

AP – House-Senate talks on renewing a payroll tax cut that delivers about $20 a week to the average worker yielded a tentative agreement Tuesday, with lawmakers planning to unveil the pact Wednesday and sending the measure to President Barack Obama as early as this week. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...

GOP critics hit Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget (AP)

02.14.2012 · Posted in Latest News

AP – President Barack Obama feels he has struck just the right budget balance between providing more short-term support for the economy while putting forth a long-term plan to get control of the government’s soaring budget deficits. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...

Obama’s budget: Government still getting bigger (AP)

02.14.2012 · Posted in Latest News

AP – Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas landed with a thud on Capitol Hill. View full post on Yahoo! ...

Obama’s new budget: Higher taxes for the wealthy (AP)

02.13.2012 · Posted in Latest News

AP – President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion spending plan on Monday for 2013 that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade but does little to restrain growth in the government’s huge health benefit programs, a major cause of future deficits. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...

Obama’s budget headed to Congress (AP)

02.13.2012 · Posted in Latest News

AP – President Barack Obama is sending Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade through cuts in government spending and higher taxes on the wealthy. At the same time, he wants to boost spending in key areas such as transportation and education. View full post ...

Under fire, Obama adjusts his birth control policy (AP)

02.11.2012 · Posted in Latest News

AP – Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead. View full ...

Obama adjusts birth control policy after protests (AP)

02.10.2012 · Posted in Latest News

AP – President Barack Obama, struggling with a political storm that hasthreatened to keep building, announced a birth control compromise Friday that he said would both protect religious liberties and ensure that the nation’s women have access to free contraception. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...

Analysis: Romney is fiery, focused in Fla. Debate (AP)

01.27.2012 · Posted in Latest News

AP – Mitt Romney, forced to prove his resilience after a stinging loss in South Carolina, is showing why the so-called Republican establishment thinks he has the best discipline, organization and campaign smarts to challenge President Barack Obama this fall. View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories ...