Heidi Przybyla
Democrats target unemployment aid as part of 2014 campaign pivot
WASHINGTON – A Senate vote on Monday to advance legislation extending emergency unemployment benefits is part of a broader agenda Democrats are rolling out...
Congress sends Obama budget reducing $63B in spending cuts
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate cleared and sent to President Barack Obama the first bipartisan budget produced by a divided Congress in 27 years,...
Lawmakers tout deal easing spending cuts amid Republican ire
WASHINGTON – Congressional negotiators are touting a U.S. budget accord that will ease the long-criticized automatic spending cuts for the next two years, remove...
Budget accord would reduce automatic spending curbs
WASHINGTON – U.S. budget negotiators are nearing a deal to trim automatic spending cuts that might break a three-year cycle of failed fiscal talks...
Obama stresses need to curb entitlements while skirting details
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said the rising cost of Medicare and Medicaid is creating “huge problems” for the nation’s finances that must be...
Most Americans support Senate immigration bill
Most Americans back a guest-worker program and a proposal allowing illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens that were part of legislation the Senate shelved...
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