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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 fundamentally reshaping the government's role in health care for the elderly and the poor. The GOP plan proposes a federal...

Congress Sends Budget Cut Bill to Obama

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 White House and newly empowered Republicans in Congress. "Welcome to divided government," said House Speaker John Boehner of...

Likely GOP Presidential Candidates Slam Obama Budget Plan

CONCORD, N.H. -- The Republicans vying to challenge President Barack Obama next year are universally panning his budget proposal as political gimmickry and another example of his inability to lead. The likely candidates lined up Wednesday against Obama's budget proposal, which would cut the federal deficit by $4 trillion...

Obama: Cut Spending, Raise Taxes on the Wealthy

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama coupled a call for $4 trillion in long-term deficit reductions with a blistering attack on Republican plans for taxes, Medicare and Medicaid on Wednesday, laying down markers for a roiling debate in Congress and the 2012 presidential campaign to come. Obama said spending cuts and...

House GOP Budget Retains Democratic Medicare Cuts

WASHINGTON -- In a postelection reversal, House Republicans are supporting nearly $450 billion in Medicare cuts that they criticized vigorously last fall after Democrats and President Barack Obama passed them as part of their controversial health care law. The cuts are included in the 2012 budget that Rep. Paul Ryan,...

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Paul Ryan: Obama A 'Failed President'

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), a potential vice presidential pick for Mitt Romney, had harsh words for President Barack Obama Tuesday evening, but told the crowd the nation could get back on the right track with the 2012 election.

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Eric Schoenberg: A Tale of Two Loopholes: The President's Taxes and Mine

President Obama recently released his 2011 tax return , showing an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $789,674 on which he paid federal income tax of $162,074, or 20.5 percent.

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Mitt Romney, Joe Biden Follow Rich Tradition Of Political Apologies

This week's apologies from Mitt Romney and Joe Biden are just the latest in a colorful history of politicians regretting personal lapses large and small.

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Harlan Green: Ryan Budget Punishes the Poorest -- A Return to 'Les Miserables'?

We know Victor Hugo's message is alive and well when Paul Ryan's latest budget proposal continues to punish the poorest for the sins of the wealthiest who caused the Great Recession, and have yet to be punished.

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Paul Ryan Budget: House Passes Bill To Spare Defense, Cut Food Aid, Health Care

The House on Thursday passed its plan to spare the military's growing budget from mandatory cuts, instead slashing Medicaid, benefits for federal workers and programs to help feed hungry Americans.

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05/28/12 Editorial: It's deja vu all over again with the... Source: Deseret News - Salt Lake City UT As we head into the summer months, the headlines seem eerily similar to last summer's.
05/28/12 Op-Ed Columnist: Fiscal Phonies Source: International Herald Tribune The obvious choice is, of course, "bully."
05/26/12 EXCLUSIVE: Paul Ryan Responds to Catholic Budget... Source: KNUS 710 - Denver CO Rep. Paul Ryan, a Catholic, has taken heat from various members of the Catholic Church on his proposed budget.
05/25/12 Derek Popp: Ryan's plan would limit student options Source: Wisconsin State Journal - Madison WI I read with interest U.S. Rep Paul Ryan's advice to the graduates in his Saturday column.
05/24/12 If Romney's policies come from business, where do... Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC "Having been in the private sector for 25 years gives me a perspective on how jobs are created that someone who's never spent a day in the private sector, like President Obama, simply doesn't understand," Mitt Romney told Time. But then how does Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who has spent his entire career in politics, understand job creation so well?

Background on Paul Ryan

Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party, and has been ranked among the party's most influential voices on economic policy.

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