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Boehner: 'I'm not threatening default'
House Speaker John Boehner denied he was threatening default when he called for equal or greater spending cuts to accompany a future increase in the debt ceiling.
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Debt-ceiling showdown returns to Washington
First Read: Speaker Boehner lays down markers for the next debt-ceiling fight that include deep spending cuts and no tax increases.
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Boehner lays down markers on year-end 'fiscal cliff'
Boehner said that the House would vote this fall "before the election" to extend the Bush-era tax cuts, and vowed to extract additional spending cuts in exchange for again raising the debt limit.
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Dems, GOP using popular bills to hurt other party
Congress is producing little this election year that will become law, yet both parties are churning out bills designed to make the other side look bad.
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Is America in fiscal austerity yet?
The short-term importance of the budget bill which the House approved this week is that Democrats now have another vote which they can use against Republicans running in tough races this fall.
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Campaigns taken off script in wild week
First Read: Obama’s decision to endorse same-sex marriage and story of Romney’s high school “pranks” knock campaigns off their messages.
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GOP plan cuts social programs to protect Pentagon
Moving to protect the Pentagon, Republicans controlling the House are pressing cuts to food stamps, health care and pensions for federal workers as an alternative to an automatic 10 percent cut to the military come January.
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Bachmann drops Swiss citizenship, says proud to be American
Michele Bachmann doesn’t want to be Swiss after all. On Thursday, the Minnesota senator and former GOP presidential candidate said she had sent the Swiss consulate a letter to withdraw her citizenship.
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Voters deliver clear messages
First Read: Tuesday’s results were largely expected but the margins in Indiana, North Carolina and even West Virginia were surprising.
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