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Mar 11, 2010: Obama's $3,000,000,000,000 Tax Hike
When he released his new budget proposal on February 1, President Barack Obama asserted that the government "simply cannot continue to spend as if deficits don't have consequences; as if waste doesn't matter; as if the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like Monopoly money; as if we can ignore this challenge for another generation."
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Mar 11, 2010: Senate Passes Jobless Aid, Business Tax Breaks
The Senate voted Wednesday to extend key pieces of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor.
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Mar 10, 2010: Obama Meets with Key Senators in Bid to Advance Climate Legislation
President Barack Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill Tuesday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year.
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Mar 10, 2010: Global Warming Skepticism Rising in the GOP
Prominent Republicans such as Marco Rubio and Tim Pawlenty have started expressing doubts, indicating that climate change is becoming a litmus test for conservatives.
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Mar 10, 2010: Jobless Aid Clears Senate Hurdle
Legislation to give additional months of unemployment benefits to people who have been out of a job for more than half a year cleared a key hurdle Tuesday that guarantees that it will soon pass the Senate.
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Mar 10, 2010: Parliamentary Hurdle Could Thwart Latest Health Care Overhaul Strategy
The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders said Tuesday that they were bracing for a key procedural ruling that could complicate their effort to approve major health care legislation, by requiring President Obama to sign the bill into law before Congress could revise it through an expedited budget process.
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Mar 10, 2010: Major Business Groups to Spend Millions on Ad Campaign Against Obama Health Care Bill
Major business groups Tuesday announced a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to stop President Barack Obama's health care overhaul as it approaches a make-or-break vote in the House.
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Mar 10, 2010: AP-GfK Poll - Public Wants Elusive Accord on Health
Americans and their lawmakers are dramatically out of sync on health care, with large majorities of people looking for bipartisan cooperation that's nowhere in sight.
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Mar 9, 2010: Are Unemployment Benefits No Longer Temporary?
Millions of Americans have been forced to rely on unemployment payments for extended periods as the nation struggles through its longest period of high joblessness in a generation, and critics are taking aim, saying that the Depression-era program created as a temporary bridge for laid-off workers is turning into an expensive entitlement.
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Mar 9, 2010: EPA Defends Greenhouse Gas Caps
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson defended controversial new rules Monday that would slash greenhouse gases across the economy, taking on critics from both sides of the aisle who want to delay the regulations.