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POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jun 22, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Peter Orszag has told President Barack Obama that he plans to leave his position as White House budget director in July, an Obama administration official told CNN Monday... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Feb 2, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- President Obama is asking for more than $230 million in the 2011 budget to prepare an idle Illinois prison to house terrorism suspects now held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Feb 1, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- President Obama today unveiled the $3.8 trillion budget proposal for 2011. Here are some key points... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Feb 1, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Explainer: Obama's 2011 budget plan..... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Oct 8, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Conservative Senate Republicans added another firecracker to the politically explosive health care debate Wednesday, introducing a resolution requiring all bills to be made public at least 72 hours before being brought to a vote... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jul 24, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- California lawmakers worked into early Friday in a marathon effort to close a $26 billion budget gap, in the state with the largest economy in the United States... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jul 23, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ruffled feathers this week by posting a video on Twitter, in which he brandishes a large knife while talking about the state's recent budget cuts... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jul 21, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The Senate on Tuesday stripped $1.75 billion for an additional seven F-22 fighter jets from the fiscal year 2010 budget... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Mar 14, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- The Senate rejected calls from both parties’ presidential candidates to take an election-year break from pork-barrel spending as a Democratic-run Congress passed budget plans that would torpedo hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts won by Presiden.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Feb 5, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush on Monday would produce eyepopping federal deficits, despite his attempts to impose politically wrenching curbs on Medicare and eliminate scores of popular domestic programs. The Pentagon would.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 11:08am neoform

Dallas News -- Tucked in the Pentagon's massive budget request is at least $1.4 billion in U.S. aid to Mexico for its fight against increasingly violent drug kingpins – including better training and high-tech tools. Negotiators for the two countries have agreed on.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 1:28pm neoform

Houston Chronicle -- The Pentagon insists it has enough C-17 Globemaster jets, which are partly manufactured in Texas and used by the Air Force to ferry troops and weapons to hot spots around the globe. Nevertheless, lawmakers from the Lone Star State and elsewhere recentl.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

USA Today -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm called off a partial shutdown of Michigan's state government early Monday after lawmakers reached a budget deal aimed at plugging a $1.75 billion deficit. Senate approval of a measure to expand the state's sales tax to services w.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 3:33am neoform

Financial Times -- When asked whether he was quitting the Bush administration because it would be good for his political future, Rob Portman, the outgoing budget director, replied: “It would be good for my mental health.” Although Mr Portman was joking, a growing list o.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 10:52am neoform

Army Times -- Troops don’t need bigger pay raises, White House budget officials said Wednesday in a statement of administration policy laying out objections to the House version of the 2008 defense authorization bill. The Bush administration had asked for a 3 perc.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 11:14am neoform

FOX News -- Senate Democrats are striving to stay united during debate on a $2.9 trillion budget outline for 2008 that already has tested their fragile majority. Moderate Democrats favoring tax cuts have forced a rewrite of the plan, pushing through an amendment W.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Mon Mar 12, 2007 @ 9:51am neoform

Alter Net -- Our health care system has gotten so bad that even Republicans acknowledge that it's broken -- so what's the best way to deal with it? Like the creature from the Black Lagoon, the health insurance monster has returned, creeping back onto the public sta.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Feb 11, 2007 @ 3:24am neoform

MSNBC -- Depending on whom you ask, the budget that President Bush proposed last week will save or sink Medicare and Medicaid, two popular programs that, along with Social Security, threaten to swamp the federal budget as the baby-boom generation retires. Bush,.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 9:32am mrmdc

SF Gate -- President Bush's $2.9 trillion federal spending plan, forecasting a balanced budget by 2012, was sent Monday to the new Democratic Congress, whose leaders immediately criticized it as wildly unrealistic and harmful to the middle class... Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 12:31pm neoform

New York Times -- More and more Medicare beneficiaries would have to pay higher premiums for coverage of prescription drugs and doctors’ services under President Bush’s 2008 budget, to be unveiled on Monday... Read More