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Targeting IPAB
Ever since health care reform passed in March, it's had a huge target on its back by those who want to repeal it. Unfortunately, the bullseye for some...
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Thune to the Rescue!
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) introduced a deficit reduction and budget reform bill yesterday, aptly titled the Deficit Reduction and Budget Reform Act of...
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‘Line’ Items: Heat Wave Edition
If You Can’t Stand the Heat… – Washington has been experiencing a heat wave, but it can’t all be blamed on the friction between the two parties...
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All Talk, No Game on Discretionary Limits
There have been a lot of numbers thrown around with regards budget resolutions, deeming resolutions, and discretionary spending limits. To keep it...
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Senate To Pass Unemployment Benefits Extension
The Senate essentially voted to pass an extension of unemployment benefits yesterday, invoking cloture on the measure with the requisite sixty votes...
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‘Line’ Items: International Sports Edition
Opens and Tours – Americans did not fare well in sporting events across the pond this weekend; leaving us Yanks to rely on past memories of success at...
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Senate Begins to Take on Taxes
What to do about the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of the year has been a critical question that Congress has largely...
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Republicans Back Sessions-McCaskill Caps
Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee backed the discretionary spending caps proposed by Jeff Sessions and Claire McCaskill yesterday...
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Senate Takes Up Small Business Bill
Under the radar due to other priorities, the Senate has taken up its version of a small business stimulus bill. The bill combines two different small...
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‘Line’ Items: Running of the Bulls Edition
Running for the Exits – The “Running of the Bulls” has begun in Pamplona, Spain. Combine that with the celebrations over the country’s World Cup...
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Brown: Don’t Take Financial Overhaul Offsets to the Bank
Major legislation reforming the financial regulatory process hit a snag today as Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) said he would not support the bill because...
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Business as Usual--Backdoor Spending Included in Supplemental
Here they go again. As they have for years, lawmakers are attempting to tuck billions of dollars for unrelated programs into the war supplemental...