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Who's who on Congress's debt 'super committee'
Congress has created a special super committee to find at least $1.2 trillion in US budget cuts. If the plan is voted down, automatic spending cuts are slated to occur. Here are the 12 lawmakers named to the super committee.
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In Pictures: Who's who in the US debt crisis
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Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul, and 8 others shaking up the new Congress
Because this House freshman class - 96 strong, including 87 Republicans - is the largest since 1992, those who speak for them, or claim to, have a leg up. Here are ten to watch.
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Four hot-button issues Republicans will target next
House Republicans are setting a blistering pace to move new legislation to cut the size and scope of government. Here are four key measures to watch.
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'Fiscal cliff' deal: After rush of relief, debt ceiling clash already looms
The fiscal cliff deal passed the House after Republicans broke ranks over taxes. But spending cuts loom large in the next clash, over raising the debt ceiling, which Obama says is non-negotiable.
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Focus
Immigration reform: Is 'amnesty' a possibility now?Congress seems primed to address immigration reform in 2013, and even a path to citizenship – which critics deride as 'amnesty' for illegals – may be on the table. The shift in the national conversation came suddenly. Here's why.
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Cover Story
Five reasons America won't fall off the 'fiscal cliff'The political and economic ramifications are too big for Washington to let the large tax increases and spending cuts take effect. But this doesn't necessarily mean lawmakers will craft a decisive solution to the nation's fiscal woes.
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Election Day bears fruit? Boehner, Reid talk of compromise on 'fiscal cliff.' (+video)
Senate majority leader Harry Reid claims a mandate from Election 2012 to let tax cuts expire for the 'richest of the rich.' House Speaker John Boehner says the mandate is for members of Congress to work together.
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Rep. Scott Rigell: Maverick GOP freshman in the eye of a political storm
Obama is hitting Virginia Beach, Va., Thursday for a reason: It's one of the hottest political ad markets in the country. Its congressman, Scott Rigell, is out to change Washington's 'toxic mix of partisanship, no facts, weak ideas.'
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Tea party lawmakers pave way to deal, averting a government shutdown
Government funding was set to run out on Sept. 30, but congressional leaders on Tuesday said they reached a deal to extend it for six months at current levels. Lawmakers with tea party leanings led the way, to prevent possibility of a preelection government shutdown.
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GOP conservatives scramble to take government shutdown off the table
In a shift from last summer's debt-ceiling standoff, tea party conservatives now aim to be seen as avoiding a government shutdown, even if it means accepting a higher level of FY 2013 spending.
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How GOP could be forced to raise taxes this December
Twenty leading congressional conservatives are imploring GOP leaders to head off any Democratic attempt to use the threat of a government shutdown to force Republicans to accept tax hikes.
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House repeals health-care reform – with no plan to replace it (+video)
House Republicans campaigned to repeal and replace health-care reform, but are now holding off until after November elections before laying out their own alternative plan.
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Decoder Wire
Has the tea party sold out? House freshmen aren't who they seem.A report by the arch-conservative Club for Growth undercuts the notion that freshmen House Republicans are unified – and uniformly committed to the most stringent tea party ideals.
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Why the Simpson-Bowles budget defeat isn't the end of the line
Simpson-Bowles is still the top bipartisan budget deal out there – and Congress may need it when it faces a showdown in December over the expiring Bush tax cuts and mandated spending cuts.
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Republicans back a Republican budget: why that's news
House Republicans are setting aside differences to give the Ryan budget the votes to proceed, despite tea party concerns. In the Senate, however, it will be dead on arrival.
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Why John Boehner can still win the tax-cut showdown
House Speaker John Boehner stunned Senate Democrats and Republicans when he said the House would vote down their two-month deal on the payroll tax cut and other measures.
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Democrats' tough choice: shut down government or swallow GOP's bills
GOP-led House has approved a payroll tax cut for workers in 2012 and is poised to vote on an omnibus spending bill for this fiscal year. Democrats want changes to both, but they appear to have lost much leverage.
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Payroll-tax cut not dead yet. Can the House save it?
House Republicans met behind closed doors Friday in search of common ground on the payroll-tax cut and other popular measures, set to expire Dec. 31.
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Who's who on Congress's debt 'super committee'
Congress has created a special super committee to find at least $1.2 trillion in US budget cuts. If the plan is voted down, automatic spending cuts are slated to occur. Here are the 12 lawmakers named to the super committee.
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Rating falls, markets plunge, critics rage. But tea party isn't blinking.
Tea party lawmakers say the S&P's downgrade of the US credit rating and the markets' convulsive reaction on Monday is merely confirmation that they had been right all along.
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Dueling debt-ceiling plans: Can either pass Congress?
House Republicans and Senate Democrats introduced their plans to resolve the debt-ceiling impasse before Aug. 2. But bipartisan hopes appear thin.
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In Pictures: Who's who in the US debt crisis
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All of a sudden, Congress is full of debt ceiling solutions
With the deadline approaching, the House and Senate are going down two different paths in search of a deal to raise the debt ceiling. Here is a rundown of what they are considering.
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Tax VOX
Rx for a double-dip recession: Cut government spending by 15 percentRepublicans in Congress have proposed to cut federal spending by an unreasonable amount next year. What would such a huge reduction across the board look like?
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Why House conservatives are offering fresh plan on federal debt
Reeling from the reaction to Rep. Paul Ryan's proposal to reform Medicare, an influential group of House Republicans offers an alternative plan to lock in spending and rein in the federal debt.
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Libya vote: How Speaker Boehner preserved GOP unity and US-NATO ties
In an 11th-hour maneuver, Speaker Boehner derails an antiwar measure that would have required Obama to withdraw US forces from NATO's Libya mission within 15 days.
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House GOP looks ready to shrink US role in Medicare. Is Obama?
House's plan for next round of budget-cutting would revamp the social contract between Medicare recipients and the government. Obama may say on Wednesday how far he'll go on Medicare reform.
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The Vote
Who won and who lost with the FY 2011 budget deal?Most seem to think Speaker John Boehner did particularly well. He cut the FY 2011 budget a lot more than Democrats wanted, and he wrangled most of his rambunctious freshmen into order.
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