Clik here to view.
GOP’s House leader comes out against Senate’s fiscal cliff deal
WASHINGTON — The Senate-approved compromise to avert the “fiscal cliff” ran headlong into opposition from the No. 2 House Republican and other GOP lawmakers Tuesday, raising questions about how — and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fiscal cliff deal set for New Year’s night vote as GOP drops demands
Maneuvered into a political corner, House Republicans abandoned demands for changes in emergency legislation to prevent widespread tax increases and painful across-the-board spending cuts and cleared...
View ArticleClik here to view.
After months of political jockeying, U.S. Congress passes bill to avert...
They had 80 hours to finish or fail. Stuck in a “fiscal cliff” stalemate, trust nearing tatters, President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans changed the game after Christmas. It took the rekindling...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U.S. narrowly avoids ‘fiscal cliff’ as House passes last-minute deal
Past its own New Year’s deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national “fiscal cliff” of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fiscal cliff averted after bitter fight, but taxes still to rise for most...
WASHINGTON — Congress’ excruciating, extraordinary New Year’s Day approval of a compromise averting a prolonged tumble off the fiscal cliff hands President Barack Obama most of the tax boosts on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Absolute disgrace’: Prominent Republican rips his own party over decision to...
New York lawmakers are branding the decision by House GOP leaders not to hold a vote on Hurricane Sandy aid in the current Congress a “betrayal.” Rep. Peter King, a Republican from Long Island, was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
After nasty public backlash from own party, Republican Speaker John Boehner...
WASHINGTON — A New York lawmaker says House Speaker John Boehner has promised votes to aid victims of Superstorm Sandy by Jan. 15. Republican Rep. Peter King says the speaker will schedule a vote...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Graphic: Back from the brink — the United States fiscal situation in 2013
America may have avoided a fiscal cliff this week, but Republicans are determined that spending cuts must happen in the future to bring the nation’s $16-trillion debt under control. So where does the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘The new normal’: Fiscal cliff fight was likely just a warm-up act for 2013
There was barely time to celebrate U.S. lawmakers brokering a deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff” before politicians started reloading for the next battle over economic policy, which was OK for most...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U.S. lawmakers dig in heels on debt crisis, setting up 2013 showdown
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders on Sunday showed no signs of emerging from their corners to resolve the next step in the financial crisis, with Democrats still talking about higher taxes on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New debt ceiling report warns U.S. may run out of money half a month early as...
AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGANTime to talk: President Barack Obama and White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew on his way to board Marine One March 2, 2012 on the South Lawn of the White House. Reports suggest the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kelly McParland: The 'fiscal cliff' deal is an embarrassment to everyone...
The U.S. government reached an important “deal” on Monday night, to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” It was done with all the usual drama and last-second theatrics that have become the rule in Washington....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Father Raymond J. de Souza: Fiscal-cliff deal highlights America’s stunning...
Barack Obama was once described as a latter-day Lincoln; I was at his first inaugural and the comparison was regularly heard. His original election campaign was replete with Lincolnesque references,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Today's letters: Theresa Spence is no Mahatma Gandhi
Re: Theresa Spence Is A Hero, letters to the editor, Jan 2. Despite what letter-writer Jennifer Asimoudis thinks, intimidation can legitimately be viewed as terrorism, even in the absence of violence....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s mission; Higher taxes
The rout was complete, the retreat disorderly. U.S. President Barack Obama got his tax hikes — naked of spending cuts — passed by the ostensibly Republican House of Representatives. After which, you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Matthew Yglesias: America's permanent fiscal emergency
The fiscal cliff is dead — but the era of America’s semi-permanent fiscal policy crisis is still here. Indeed, if anything, the resolution of the cliff has simply served to set up a quantitatively...
View ArticleClik here to view.
George F. Will: Tax-and-spenders dropped the ball in fiscal cliff resolution
“Even victors are by victories undone.” — John Dryden Democrats not allergic to arithmetic must know the cost of their “fiscal cliff” victory. When they flinched from allowing all of George W. Bush’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kelly McParland: GOP senate leader tagged for attack ad for averting fiscal...
During the French Revolution, the anti-royalist Jacobins grew continually more extreme, culminating in “The Terror” and the paranoid rule of Maximilien Robespierre, who sent thousands to the guillotine...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Allan Levine: Think politics is more partisan than it used to be? Think again
In the new film Lincoln, James Spader plays W.N. Bilbo, one of the sleazy political lobbyists hired by secretary of state William Seward to ensure that the vote on the 13th amendment is passed by a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Charles Krauthammer: Maybe going over the cliff in the name of principle...
It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are suffering an internal split that President Obama is successfully exploiting to neuter the Republican House. It is not true, however, that the...
View Article
