Pawlenty touts Medicare proposal during Iowa trip
Republican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty told people during a Monday stop in Iowa that the key difference between his Medicare proposal and the proposal introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wiscosnin,...
View ArticleGOP presses Obama on spending Medicare
Face to face at the White House, GOP leaders complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday that he had not produced a detailed plan of spending cuts and accused him of playing politics over...
View ArticleAnalysis: Parties maneuvering on debt, health care
WASHINGTON — The threat of a first-ever default by the federal government is pushing President Barack Obama and Republicans toward a sweeping agreement to cut government spending and increase the...
View ArticleGingrich campaign in tatters as top aides resign
WASHINGTON — The entire top echelon of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign resigned on Thursday, a stunning mass exodus that left his bid for the Republican nomination in tatters. But the former...
View ArticleRepublicans assail Obama, not each other in debate
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Republican White House hopefuls condemned President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy from the opening moments of their first major debate of the campaign season Monday night,...
View ArticleThe next deficit deal: There’s a rough road ahead
WASHINGTON (AP) — The special panel's goal is lofty: concoct a deal both parties will embrace to slash federal deficits by a mammoth $1.5 trillion or more over the next decade.The post The next deficit...
View ArticleTiberi explains debt ceiling vote
Echoing the words of many other lawmakers who voted with him, U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Genoa Township) said in an interview with the Gazette that the debt-ceiling increase bill passed this week is a...
View ArticleBoehner calls GOP deficit plan a ‘fair offer’
WASHINGTON — The top Republican in the House says a recent proposal by GOP members of a special deficit committee is a “fair offer” despite criticism from conservatives who say it breaks the party’s...
View ArticleRomney sidesteps tax dispute; Gingrich dives in
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Mitt Romney refused to be pinned down Wednesday on how Congress should break an impasse that threatens to raise taxes for 160 million workers — the latest pressing policy debate...
View ArticleGOP maps strategy in wake of payroll tax debacle
WASHINGTON (AP) — When last seen in Washington, House Republicans were furious with their own leader, Speaker John Boehner, and angry with their Senate Republican brethren over how the showdown over...
View ArticleObama’s budget: Government still getting bigger
WASHINGTON — 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...
View ArticleGOP critics hit Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress Tuesday that the president’s new $3.8 trillion spending plan would impose new taxes on only 2 percent of the nation’s wealthiest families...
View ArticleMedicare rationing? An election-year House vote
WASHINGTON — House Republicans resurrected the specter of Medicare rationing Thursday in an election-year vote to repeal cost controls in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.The post Medicare...
View ArticleHouse GOP budget plan heats up as campaign issue
WASHINGTON — The new debt-slashing budget plan pushed by House Republicans heated up as a presidential campaign issue Sunday as the proposal's architect, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, sparred with top...
View ArticleHouse set to defeat bipartisan budget plan
WASHINGTON — The House was poised Wednesday to reject a bipartisan budget plan mixing tax increases with spending cuts across the budget to wring $4 trillion from the budget deficit over the coming...
View ArticleRomney wealth in focus on campaign trail
APPLETON, Wis. — Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney on Friday defended his personal wealth amid intensifying criticism from his main GOP rival and President Barack Obama’s re-election...
View ArticleDems sharpen attack as GOP rallies behind Romney
MILWAUKEE — President Barack Obama’s administration launched a multi-pronged assault on Mitt Romney’s values and foreign policy credentials Sunday, while a fresh set of prominent Republicans rallied...
View ArticleObama denounces ‘radical’ Republican budget plan
WASHINGTON — In an election-year pitch to middle-class voters, President Barack Obama is denouncing a House Republican budget plan as a “Trojan horse,” warning that it represents “an attempt to impose...
View ArticleRomney takes Maryland, DC, talks tough to Obama
MILWAUKEE — Mitt Romney tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night, winning primaries in Maryland and Washington, D.C., and leading in Wisconsin, with time left over to...
View ArticleRomney faces lengthy to-do list as likely GOP pick
DES MOINES, Iowa — Mitt Romney faces a daunting to-do list as he transitions into the role of likely Republican presidential nominee.The post Romney faces lengthy to-do list as likely GOP pick appeared...
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