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Yesterday we got the Paul Ryan budget.
It involved big tax cuts, eliminating Obamacare, and big cuts to virtually all categories of spending. Today it’s the Democrats turn. The Democrats will introduce their first formal “budget” in 4 years at a press conference at 10:30. Erik Wasson at The Hill reports on what will be in it: The first budget from Senate Democrats in four years includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes but would not balance [...] The Guantanamo Bay detention centre could be closed and the 166 inmates could be sent to prisons in the US, according to a new government report. “This report demonstrates that if the political will exists, we could finally close Guantanamo without imperilling our national security,” said Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman who released the recommendations. The Government Accountability Office study shows that US prisons already hold 373 prisoners [...] From NYT: WASHINGTON — Lawmakers with authority over intelligence and national security expressed consternation on Sunday that the F.B.I.investigation that led to the resignation of David Petraeus as director of central intelligence could have been conducted without the knowledge of officials in the White House or Congress. They also voiced puzzlement that it came to a head within hours of President Obama’s re-election. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, a Democrat and the intelligence committee chairwoman, [...] European Union lawmakers have been attacked for a “breach of confidence” after disclosing details from a confidential briefing with ECB president Mario Draghi. On Monday, Mr Draghi suggested to a closed hearing at the European Parliament that the ECB could buy government bonds maturing in three years or less. Despite potentially easing the financial crises engulfing Spain and Italy, the move would be controversial, not least in Germany, as EU treaties don’t allow the [...] IRS “easiest enforcer” of health care law Paul Joseph Watson Despite claiming Obamacare was “not a tax,” Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the Internal Revenue Service would be the “easiest enforcer” of penalties against those who refuse to comply with the new health care law.
“The way we usually think of taxation, Wolf, is that taxation as the IRS administers is collected [...] Hillary Clinton sides with Palestinians over Republicans, Sara Sorcher of National Journal reports: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is allowing U.S. funds to flow to the West Bank and Gaza despite a hold by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., a rare display of executive-branch authority sure to anger the key lawmaker concerned about protecting her congressional oversight role. A State Department official said that the letter was delivered on Tuesday to key members of [...] When some of Washington D.C.’s most respected journalists and politicians gather for a night of roasts and satirical skits, there is always the looming prospect of embarrassment or inappropriate jokes. Instead, attendees were left in shocked stitches of laughter by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz when she joked about her fake breasts during her speech at Saturday night’s dinner. The Democratic National Committee Chairwoman, who had a long battle with breast cancer that [...] WOONSOCKET, R.I.—Woonsocket’s School Committee chairwoman says budget woes could force the school year to end early in April if the state doesn’t step in to help, even though state law requires them to remain open for 180 days. Anita McGuire Forcier told a City Council committee Monday night that the school district needs the state to pay its June education aid installment to the city this month to keep schools open. Read [...] Ros-Lehtinen called the United Nations a ‘stew of corruption, mismanagement and negligence.’ | Reuters By TIM MAK | 8/30/11 6:08 AM EDT House Republicans are planning to introduce legislation Tuesday that will force major changes at the United Nations, an organization that the bill’s author has called a “stew of corruption, mismanagement and negligence.” The bill, by Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, would require the UN adopt a [...] It’s been a rough June for the White House. Instead of being able to run a campaign taking credit for economic improvement, President Obama will, according to the latest forecasts, be trying to win four more years amid a grim economy next year. The president’s reelection team, once hoping to run on a “Morning in America” theme now doesn’t have that luxury. No wonder, [...] A White House spokesman said Monday that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is a “distraction” from important issues, but he stopped short of calling for Weiner’s resignation. White House press secretary Jay Carney, who refused to comment on the scandal last week, said Monday that “the president feels, we feel at the White House this is a distraction.” “As Congressman Weiner has said himself, his behavior was inappropriate, [...] St. Paul, Minn. — Gov. Mark Dayton said Monday that his proposal to balance the state’s projected $6.2 billion deficit contains “terrible cuts” that will have “devastating effects” for some of the state’s poorest residents. “I hate what I’m having to do,” Dayton said at a Minneapolis event organized by the Downtown Congregations to End Homelessness. Hundreds of advocates for the homeless gathered at Westminster Presbyterian [...] |
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