Thursday, July 28, 2011

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Yahoo! News: Politics News

House delays vote on debt limit, spending cuts (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:52 PM PDT

AP - House Republican leaders have abruptly delayed a vote on a bill extending the government's debt limit and cutting federal spending.

House votes on GOP bill; passage won't end crisis (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:39 PM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, second from right, accompanied by fellow Republican leaders, talks to reporters about the debt crisis showdown during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 28, 2011. From left are House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., Boehner, and Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The endgame at hand, House Republicans lined up Thursday to pass legislation to prevent looming government default while slicing nearly $1 trillion from federal spending. Senate Democrats pledged to scuttle the bill swiftly in hopes of forcing a final compromise.

House GOP freshmen: We're behind Boehner debt plan (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:09 AM PDT

AP - Republican freshmen who helped win the House's majority for their class last year are falling behind Speaker John Boehner's plan raise the debt limit.

Reid, McConnell trade blame as House vote looms (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 07:43 AM PDT

AP - The Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders traded blame for the debt standoff Thursday, as the House prepared to vote on the GOP's plan to raise the nation's borrowing limit before a Tuesday deadline.

Bachmann says she, not husband, running for office (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:07 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. addresses a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, Thursday, July 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Rep. Michele Bachmann steadfastly refused Thursday to answer questions about her family's business and finances, saying that she — not her husband — was the one seeking the White House.

US cannot say how many had communications watched (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:19 PM PDT

AP - Like its predecessor, the Obama administration says it cannot count how many people in the U.S. have had their telephone calls and emails monitored by government agents in national security investigations under federal surveillance law.

First-term Republican plans to vote no on Boehner (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:18 AM PDT

AP - A freshman House Republican says he still can't vote for the deficit-reduction proposal pushed by Speaker John Boehner, although he calls it "a step in the right direction."

EPA targets air pollution from gas drilling boom (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:52 PM PDT

AP - Faced with a natural gas drilling boom that has sullied the air in some parts of the country, the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed for the first time to control air pollution at oil and gas wells, particularly those drilled using a method called hydraulic fracturing.

Johnson on Perry: 'Parody of George Bush' (Politico)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:11 PM PDT

Politico - The former New Mexico governor says he thought Rick Perry was doing an impression the first time he heard him speak.

Int'l food aid advocates worry about spending (Politico)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Politico - They plan to blitz lawmakers with an intense lobbying campaign aimed at changing their focus.

LaHood urges Congress to reopen FAA (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:04 AM PDT

AP - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood urged lawmakers Thursday to pass a bill to put the Federal Aviation Administration back in business and put more than 70,000 construction workers and others back on the job.

Ill. Congressman responds to child support report (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2010 file photo, then-Rep.-elect Joe Walsh, R-Ill., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Chicago Sun-Times reports Thursday, July 28, 2011, that Walsh's ex-wife, Laura Walsh has sued her ex-husband for more than $117,000 in what she says is unpaid child support and interest. Laura Walsh filed the claim in December in their divorce case. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh, a rising star in the Tea Party movement best known for his blistering lectures of President Barack Obama for "spending like a drunken sailor," is now being peppered with questions about his own financial responsibility after reports surfaced that he's being sued for more than $100,000 in unpaid child support.

WH: Any deal must extend debt limit into 2013 (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 06:44 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama's chief of staff says the president will veto any last-minute debt package from Congress unless it extends the nation's borrowing limit into 2013.

Portugal starts labor reforms to get bailout funds (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 08:36 AM PDT

AP - Portugal's five-week-old government took its first major proposal for labor reform to Parliament on Thursday, seeking approval for a reduction in compensation entitlements for laid-off workers.

Obama aide says premature to say if U.S. will prioritize debt (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:31 PM PDT

Reuters - Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said it was too early to say if the government would prioritize debt payments if Congress cannot meet an August 2 deadline to lift the debt limit.

Debt ceiling vote: A referendum on Boehner? (The Week)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 08:11 AM PDT

The Week - Fiscal conservatives who rode the Tea Party wave into Congress can't decide whether to fall in behind the House speaker, or reject his leadership

GOP aims to gut Christmas, White House alleges (Daily Caller)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:16 AM PDT

Daily Caller - House Speaker and national grinch John Boehner is planing to spoil Christmas, White House officials are claiming, as they try to head off passage of Boehner’s two-stage debt ceiling bill.

‘Arrested Development’ movie confirmed (Daily Caller)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:14 AM PDT

Daily Caller - Fans of the Fox program "Arrested Development" will soon have new material to celebrate, as a film based on the sitcom will hit the big screen in 2012.

Sarah Palin's Vague Debt Threat (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:26 PM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - This afternoon Sarah Palin issued a vague threat to freshman Republicans just ahead of the House vote on a bill to reduce the deficit and raise the debt ceiling. Does Palin want Republicans to vote it down? She wouldn't say precisely. On her Facebook page, Palin cited quotations from a 2010 letter she issued to Republicans reminding them that they "campaigned on a promise to rein in out-of-control government spending... promises that you must keep." She punctuated her reminder with an ominous post script: "P.S. Everyone I talk to still believes in contested primaries."

John McCain Lashes Out at 'Tea Party Hobbits' (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:36 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - Apparently growing frustrated with the Tea Party element within his own Party, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took to the Senate floor Wednesday and said their current demands with regard to the debt ceiling debate were "bizarre" and "unfair" to constituents. He read from an Op-Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal wherein the Tea Partyers and those following them were compared to Middle Earth hobbits, a scathing critique of the perceived delusion guiding the movement that its opposition to President Obama and Democratic plans would place the blame for a government shutdown and default on its loans squarely on the Democrats. McCain added that it was "amazing" Republicans would think they could force the issue of a balanced budget amendment in its "present presentation," calling the maneuver "foolish."
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