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Fiscal cliff offers hint at more defense cuts

Source: Detroit Free Press, Dec 5 2012, 12:53pm CST

WASHINGTON House Republicans' "fiscal cliff" counteroffer to President Barack Obama hints at billions of dollars in military cuts on top of the nearly $500 billion that the White House and Congress backed last year, and ...

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Panel rejects Pentagon's request for base closings

Source: The Seattle Times  |   May 23 2013, 11:43am CDT

Another round of military base closings is going nowhere in Congress. Another round of military base closings is going nowhere in Congress. The Obama administration wants another round. But the House Armed Services readiness su ...

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Darrell Delamaide's Political Capital: Bernanke to Congress: You’re killing us

Source: MarketWatch  |   May 23 2013, 11:15am CDT

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Cruz to McCain: ‘There may be more wacko birds in the Senate’ than you think

Source: Washington Examiner   |   May 23 2013, 11:15am CDT

Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, suggested to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that he no longer represents the majority of Senate Republicans on the issue of increasing the debt ceiling — and he offered a bet to prove it ...

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McCain hits GOPers on budget, again

Source: The Politico  |   May 23 2013, 10:59am CDT

Sen. John McCain hammered his fellow Republicans on Thursday, saying that further objections to moving ahead on the budget could carry dramatic implications for future bills, including immigration. Tea party conservative ...

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CBO: ‘Large Debt Increases Risk of Fiscal Crisis, During Which … Government Would be Unable to Borrow…’

Source: CNSNews.com  |   May 23 2013, 10:31am CDT

(CNSNews.com) - In its latest budget projections, released this month, the Congressional Budget Office warns that interest payments on the federal government's debt will more than double in the coming decade, that an expected increase in tax revenues ...

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Senate passes $20.6 billion budget on to House

Source: Under the Dome  |   May 23 2013, 9:54am CDT

The state Senate passed its $20.6 billion budget along party lines, moving the plan on to the House for consideration. "This really is about the number one priority that you have for the state - to give a big tax cut to a few wealthy people ...

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Sen. Ted Cruz: 'I don't trust Republicans'

Source: Renew America  |   May 23 2013, 8:02am CDT

“Isn’t it a little bizarre, this whole exercise?” McCain said after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) objected to going to conference. “What we’re saying is that we don’t trust our colleagues on the other side of the Capitol.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said ...

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Under Obama administration, the world is a battlefield

Source: Rabble.ca  |   May 23 2013, 7:43am CDT

In a remarkable but little-noticed oversight hearing last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee looked at "The Law of Armed Conflict, the Use of Military Force, and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Milita ...

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Wonkbook: Bernanke lashes Congress

Source: The Washington Post  |   May 23 2013, 7:33am CDT

Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here . Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go ...

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What Boehner considers 'inconceivable'

Source: MSNBC Blogs  |   May 23 2013, 7:06am CDT

In "The Princess Bride," there's one word that Vizzini uses repeatedly and inappropriately: "inconceivable." The problem, of course, that the circumstances that he describes as "inconceivable" are actually quite predictabl ...

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