Debt Ceiling
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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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While Washington bickers over how to balance the budget, the governor of Utah said Congress should pay attention to his state because he is "doing it right."
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Only Congress has the right and the responsibility under the Constitution to authorize borrowing.
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Americans are growing increasingly worried about federal debt, government dysfunction, and squabbles about the debt ceiling could derail the nation's fragile economic recovery.
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How politicians even explain the way the government spends money depends on what party they belong to and whether that party holds the White House or Congress.
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Republican lawmakers are being told by a growing number of conservatives to stop using the debt ceiling crisis to force major spending cuts.
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As the GOP base has been transplanted from the industrial Northeast to the South and West, Republicans are electing more populist, antitax and antigovernment conservatives who are less supportive -- and even suspicious -- of appeals from big business. The NYT reports.
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Co-founder of the Campaign to Fix The Debt, Alan Simpson, has some harsh words for lawmakers on how to fix the debt crisis.
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Although the debt ceiling debate has some nervous, others expressed optimism that the issue would be resolved in due time.
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Scheduled budget cuts in March could limit visiting hours and even force closure of national parks.
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The White House is offering a compromise on new Obamacare rules that would allow religious employers to exclude contraceptives from health insurance for employees.
