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In a wide-ranging interview airing just before the Super Bowl, the president talked about the budget, football and the Boy Scouts of America.
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CNBC's Eamon Javers reports 8 senators offered a bi-partisan proposal to overhaul immigration that addresses employment verification and green cards for advanced degrees. The Senators hope the law could pass by late spring or summer of this year.
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A bipartisan group of leading senators unveiled an agreement Monday on the principles for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants already in this country.
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A bipartisan group of senators put forth a plan to tackle immigration reform. Tamar Jacoby, ImmigrationWorks USA president, explains why this proposal could create a positive jolt for the U.S. economy.
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Pockets of the global economy are showing steady improvement, Honeywell CEO Dave Cote told CNBC on Monday, adding that a U.S. federal budget sequester's impact is likely to be muted.
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This contributor thinks if Republicans follow the lead of a Chicago Democrat, they may just start winning back voters without abandoning the party's core.
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David Cote, Chairman & CEO of Honeywell International, weighs in on his company's better-than-expected earnings and provides an outlook on the remainder of the year.
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Sen. Mike Johanns, (R-NE), explains why he wants President Obama's recess appointments to the NLRB and CFPC to tender their resignations immediately.
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A special look at stocks as the Dow is less than 300 points away from an all-time high, with CNBC's Kayla Tausche.
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President Obama has chosen longtime adviser and national security expert Denis McDonough as White House chief of staff.
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Republican governors are moving to cut income taxes, including proposals that would increase reliance on state sales taxes, setting up ambitious experiments in tax reform that could shape what is possible on a national level.
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To many, Geithner deserves credit for helping steady the banking system and helping restore investor confidence. Yet his toughest critics say his policies consistently favored big banks over struggling Americans.
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The Senate's senior Democrat and Republican reached a tentative agreement to impose modest limits on the filibuster, the delaying tactic that minority parties have long used to kill legislation and was immortalized in the film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
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President Obama nominated Mary Jo White to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, tapping an attorney with broad experience in prosecuting white-collar crimes to lead an agency that has a central role in implementing Wall Street reform.
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Sen. Robert Casey, (D-PA), discuss how the Senate Democrats plan to move ahead on the debt ceiling debate.
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House Republicans voted to suspend the debt ceiling until May 19, with Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH); Blake Zeff, Former Obama Presidential Campaign Aide; and Kellyanne Conway, The Polling Company.
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There's a new route for the Keystone XL Pipeline, but will President Obama approve it? Larry Kudlow discusses the odds with it with two experts.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 23- The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a Republican plan to allow the federal government to keep borrowing money through mid-May, clearing it for fast enactment after the top Senate Democrat and White House endorsed it.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 23- The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a Republican plan to allow the federal government to keep borrowing money through mid-May, clearing it for fast enactment after the top Senate Democrat and White House endorsed it.
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The Department of Transportation's Secretary Ray LaHood spoke out on the Boeing investigation, reports CNBC's Phil LeBeau.
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With tacit support from President Barack Obama, the GOP-controlled House approved an extension of the debt ceiling Wednesday, heading off an economy-rattling fiscal crisis for at least four months.