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Archive: News / U.S. / Congress (6 Stories)

Senate Democrats, GOP to stage votes on rival cuts

02/28/2013 5:36am
Across-the-board spending cuts all but certain, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are staging a politically charged showdown designed to avoid public blame for any resulting inconvenience or disruption in government services.

Big spending cuts mark tea party success, and risk

02/28/2013 12:41pm
The pending $85 billion in federal spending cuts would seem like a tea partyer's dream. Why, then, are tea party activists and other conservatives so wary on the eve of the big reductions, which Congress and the White House seem unable or unwilling to stop?

Democrats kill Senate GOP plan to address cuts

02/28/2013 12:59pm
Democrats and tea party Republicans have killed a GOP plan to give the president more flexibility to apply automatic government spending cuts due to start on Friday.

GOP kills Senate Democratic plan to replace cuts

02/28/2013 1:25pm
Senate Republicans have killed a plan backed by President Barack Obama to replace $111 billion in government spending cuts this year with a new minimum tax on the wealthy and cuts to defense and farm subsidies that would be slower to strike.

Congress passes bill renewing anti-violence law

02/28/2013 1:33pm
House Republicans raised the white flag Thursday on extending domestic violence protections to gays, lesbians and transsexuals after months of resisting an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act.

Lawmakers push measure on Israel's self-defense

02/28/2013 2:21pm
The United States would back Israel militarily if the Mideast ally were to attack Iran in self-defense, a bipartisan group of senators said Thursday in introducing a forceful resolution.
 
   
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