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Robert Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary; Rana Foroohar, Time Magazine; Jim Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute; and Matt Swift, Legacy Management Group CEO, debate whether President Obama's budget proposal will include enough entitlement cuts when he sends it to Congress next week.
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CNBC's John Harwood reports the Senate is voting on a bill that would collect sales taxes from out-of-state internet retailers.
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*Postal Service lost $16 billion last year. Congress traditionally has included a provision in legislation to fund the federal government each year that has prevented the Postal Service from reducing delivery service. The Postal Service had asked Congress not to include the provision this time around.
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*Postal Service lost $16 billion last year, needs help. No law requires the Postal Service to deliver mail six days a week, but Congress traditionally has included a provision in legislation to fund the federal government each year that has prevented the Postal Service from reducing delivery service.
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The US Postal Service has suffered a setback in its plan to end Saturday delivery of first-class mail, as Congress advanced a bill requiring six-day delivery.
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The House passed a huge stopgap spending bill to keep the government open through the end of September, sidestepping any threat of a government shutdown.
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CNBC's John Harwood reports the House has passed Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal mostly along party lines.
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Sen. Kelly Ayotte, (R-NH), says the GOP is healthy. "Our principles apply to everyone," she says.
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The Supreme Court says copyrighted items made overseas are covered by federal law——and a person who buys a product is free to turn around and sell it.
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While Europe tries to contain its debt crisis, the U.S. is trying to prevent one, reports CNBC's John Harwood.
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President Obama nominated Thomas Perez as the new Labor Secretary at a press conference held at the White House this morning. The President urged Congress to confirm his nomination quickly. CNBC's John Harwood reports on the somewhat controversial nomination.
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CNBC's Kayla Tausche reports how testimony on Capitol Hill on Friday from several JPMorgan executives is shining a new spotlight on its CEO, Jamie Dimon.
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The GOP will endorse immigration reform on Monday and outline plans for a $10 million outreach to minority groups in an effort to make the party more "welcoming and inclusive" for voters who overwhelmingly supported Democrats in 2012.
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Amid all the negativism out there, I believe optimism is in the air. Sometimes you have to search for it, or read it in the fine print. But I believe the political economy is getting better, not worse.
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The Federal Reserve sent a record $88.4 billion in profits to the U.S. Treasury last year, audited results showed on Friday.
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CNBC's Eamon Javers on the tension that arose as Washington pushed for cybersecurity cooperation with private industry. Even while President Obama raised the issue with new Chinese President Xi Jinping, U.S. CEOs are pushing for limits on government collaboration.
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CNBC's Kate Kelly reports the latest details on a Senate subcommittee hearing on JPMorgan's $6 billion trading loss.
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Sen. Ron Johnson, (R-WI) asks witness in the Senate hearing on JPMorgan's "London Whale" trade, whether management and traders at JPMorgan has an attitude that the company was too big to fail.
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Sen. Carl Levin, (D-MI) asks witness in the Senate hearing on JPMorgan's "London Whale" trade, what caused the bank to lose billions, and who was responsible for monitoring the risks associated with the trade.
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"I always tried to do my best," said Ina Drew, former JPMorgan CIO, testifying before a Senate hearing on problems that occurred on her watch during the London Whale trading debacle.
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CNBC's Kate Kelly has the latest details on today's Senate hearing on JPMorgan's $6 billion trading loss.