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Leading congressional Republicans said on Sunday a broad deal with President Barack Obama on deficit reduction and entitlement reform remains possible but differed over potential flexibility on taxes, with the House speaker and budget leader not bending
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WASHINGTON, April 5- A modest tax increase that Republicans embraced months ago will be part of President Barack Obama's budget proposal set for release next week, White House officials said on Friday.
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President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other benefits programs in a budget proposal next week aimed at winning over enough congressional Republicans to pass a broad deal to reduce the deficit.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 25- On a frosty December night last year, about two dozen guests slipped into the Alta Club, a century-old private retreat a block away from the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that dominates Salt Lake City.
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*U.S. agencies, programs funded through Sept. 30. WASHINGTON, March 21- The U.S. House of Representatives eliminated the threat of a government shutdown next week, approving on Thursday a stop-gap funding bill that temporarily eases partisan tensions after months of bitter fights over budgets.
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WASHINGTON, March 21- The U.S. House of Representatives eliminated the threat of a government shutdown next week, approving on Thursday a stop-gap funding bill that temporarily eases partisan tensions after months of bitter fights over budgets.
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WASHINGTON, March 21- House Speaker John Boehner and his fellow Republicans say they are preparing to use the next debt limit deadline to fight for further spending cuts and major changes to federal healthcare and retirement programs.
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WASHINGTON, March 21- House Speaker John Boehner and his fellow Republicans say they are preparing to use the next debt limit deadline to fight for further spending cuts and major changes to federal healthcare and retirement programs.
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WASHINGTON, March 20- A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers began a new attempt on Wednesday to pass legislation that puts pressure on China to change its currency practices, reviving an effort that previously failed to make it to the finish line.
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The bill is similar to legislation that passed the House of Representatives in 2010 and the Senate in 2011, but which died in Congress before it could reach President Barack Obama's desk to sign into law. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was wrapping up a two-day visit to China, where he pressed Beijing to allow the yuan to rise further against the dollar.
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Social Security retirement program for the next 75 years. Assistant Senate Democratic leader Dick Durbin said the panel would be modeled after the "Simpson-Bowles" deficit-reduction commission that made recommendations to Congress at the end of 2010, but failed to garner enough support to push its comprehensive budget savings through Congress.
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In a letter to Republican House Speaker John Boehner last Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Food and Drug Administration would go back to the drawing board to develop the ads, as required by legislation passed by Congress in 2009.. The Justice Department was facing a deadline on whether to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review that ruling.
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Leading congressional Republicans said on Sunday a broad deal with President Barack Obama on deficit reduction and entitlement reform remains possible but differed over potential flexibility on taxes, with the House speaker and budget leader not bending
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WASHINGTON, March 17- Leading congressional Republicans said on Sunday a broad deal with President Barack Obama on deficit reduction and entitlement reform remains possible but differed over potential flexibility on taxes, with the House speaker and budget leader not bending.
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WASHINGTON, March 17- Senior congressional Republicans said on Sunday they see a chance for a broad deal with President Barack Obama on deficit reduction and reining in spending on vast government programs like Medicare and one senator signaled potential flexibility on taxes.
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By Roberta Rampton and Ayesha Rascoe. LEMONT, Ill./ WASHINGTON, March 15- President Barack Obama tried to move past partisan fights over U.S. energy policy on Friday with a modest proposal to fund research into cars that run on anything but gasoline.
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*Would put $2 bln over 10 years to alternative transport research. LEMONT, Illinois/ WASHINGTON, March 15- President Barack Obama tried to move past partisan fights over U.S. energy policy on Friday with a modest proposal to fund research into cars that run on anything but gasoline.
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By Roberta Rampton and Ayesha Rascoe. LEMONT, Illinois/ WASHINGTON, March 15- President Barack Obama tried to move past partisan fights over U.S. energy policy on Friday with a modest proposal to fund research into cars that run on anything but gasoline.
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By Roberta Rampton and Ayesha Rascoe. LEMONT, Illinois/ WASHINGTON, March 15- President Barack Obama tried move past partisan fights over U.S. energy policy on Friday with a modest proposal to fund research into cars that run on anything but gasoline.
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President Barack Obama will try to turn the page on bitterly partisan fights over energy policy on Friday, focusing the first energy speech of his second term on proposing a modest new fund to support research.
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By Roberta Rampton and Ayesha Rascoe. Obama will tour the Argonne National Laboratory outside of Chicago, known for its research into advanced batteries used in electric cars, before speaking about the need to find more ways to wean cars and trucks off oil, White House officials said.