Articles About John Boehner
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December 22, 2012Consumer Confidence Takes Another Plunge Over the Fiscal Cliff
Consumers are noticing the fiscal cliff debacle...
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December 20, 2012Fiscal Cliff Showdown: Are Republicans All-In?
If market participants want to play the blame game, they may as well spin a bottle and settle on whoever it chooses...
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December 18, 2012Fiscal Cliff: New Chapter, Same Story
John Boehner just took the biggest step forward in the fiscal cliff discussions so far...
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February 16, 2012Congress Reaches Bipartisan Agreement to Extend Payroll Tax Cut
The bipartisan deal would extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans through the end of the year, during which it would save the average American working family $1,000...
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December 20, 2011
Prospects for Payroll Tax Cut Are Grim After House Republicans Reject Temporary Extension
The U.S. House of Representatives rejected on Tuesday a bipartisan Senate compromise to extend a payroll tax cut for two months in order to buy lawmakers more time to negotiate a longer extension...
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December 08, 2011
Congress Debates Payroll Tax Cut Extension
Congressional Democrats are putting pressure on Republican leaders to reach a deal to extend a payroll tax cut for employees before it expires on December 31...
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September 23, 2011House Approves Stop-Gap Budget Opposed by Senate, Government Shutdown Possible
Early this morning, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a Republican-authored short-term funding measures designed to keep the government running through November 18, which Democrats in the Senate immediately vowed they would reject...
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September 22, 2011House Rejects Spending Bill, Government Shutdown Looms
The House of Representatives rejected a bill to fund the government through November 18 on Wednesday, without which the government's spending authority will stop at the end of September...
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July 27, 2011Vote on Boehner Bill Delayed, Obama Prepares Another Option to Avoid Default
After an analysis found that Republican Speaker John Boehner's budget plan cut spending by $350 billion less than he said it would, a House vote was pushed back from Wednesday to Thursday...
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July 26, 2011Is the Budget Deal Ushering in an Age of Austerity for the US?
In two back-to-back televised addresses to the nation Monday night, both President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner put forth their priorities and expectations of a budget deal...
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July 25, 2011
Debt-Ceiling Standoff Continues Amidst Partisan Posturing
With potential default just over a week away, Republicans and Democrats in Congress continue developing their own independent plans for raising the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt ceiling...
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July 21, 2011Partial Shutdown of FAA Could Add to the Dismal Unemployment Rate
If Congress is unable to agree on new stop-gap funding for the FAA by Friday, thousands of workers will be put on furlough...
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