Obama Assesses GOP Budget: 'Wrong for America'
Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is promoting his new deficit-reduction plan by drawing sharp contrasts with a House Republican budget that he says offers a vision that "is wrong for...
Obama: Congress Must -- and Will -- Raise Debt Limit
Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
CHICAGO -- President Barack Obama confidently predicted Friday that a divided Congress would raise the nation's borrowing limit to cover the staggering federal debt rather than risk triggering a...
Canvass Shows Conservative Wins Wisconsin Court Race
MADISON, Wis. -- A conservative state Supreme Court justice overcame efforts to tie him to Wisconsin's polarizing governor and survived a near-upset in a race that drew national attention after a...
House Passes Huge GOP Budget Cuts, Opposing Obama
J. Scott Applewhite, AP
WASHINGTON -- In a prelude to a summer showdown with President Barack Obama, Republicans controlling the House pushed to passage on Friday a bold but politically dangerous budget blueprint to slash...
Arizona Legislature OKs Presidential 'Birther' Bill
PHOENIX - The Arizona Legislature gave final approval late Thursday night to a proposal that would require President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove they are U.S. citizens...
House Set to Vote on $6 Trillion Spending Cut Plan
WASHINGTON -- A bold but politically risky plan to cut trillions of dollars from the federal budget steamed toward a party-line House vote Friday, as insurgent Republicans rallied behind the idea of...
Wisconsin Governor Defends Hobbling Unions
AP
WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker defended his school of union hobbling as a route to fiscal discipline to budget-weary Washington on Thursday, telling a House committee that protracted,...
Congress Sends Budget Cut Bill to Obama
J. Scott Applewhite, AP
Congress sent President Barack Obama hard-fought legislation cutting a record $38 billion from domestic spending on Thursday, bestowing bipartisan support on the first major compromise between the...
2012 Republican Hopefuls Pan Obama's Budget Plan
CONCORD, N.H. -- Republicans considering a White House run in 2012 assailed President Barack Obama's deficit-reduction proposal and cast him as a tax-raising liberal who's failing to pull the nation...
Who's to Blame for $14 Trillion Debt? Both Parties Played Major Roles
WASHINGTON -- Two centuries after America's birth, the national debt was a bit under $1 trillion when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981. Just three decades later, it has soared above $14 trillion,...
Did US Christian Right Know Gbagbo's Other Wife Is Muslim?
Prominent members of the U.S. religious right have trumpeted their support of Ivory Coast's just-captured former president, Laurent Gbagbo -- and some of their rhetoric emphasizes that Gbagbo is an...
Obama: Deficit Push 'Can't Exempt Anyone'
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says the nation's effort to curb ballooning deficits "can't exempt anyone." Obama spoke Thursday as he met with the co-chairmen of his deficit reduction...
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