Saturday, April 9, 2011

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Obama, Boehner each earn wins in budget pact (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:20 PM PDT

President Obama poses for photographers in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington after he spoke regarding the budget and averted government shutdown after a deal was made between Republican and Democrat lawmakers, Friday, April 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Rivals in a divided government, President Barack Obama and the most powerful Republican in Congress split their differences to stave off a federal shutdown that neither combatant was willing to risk.

George Allen leads Tim Kaine in new Virginia Senate poll (The Ticket)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 10:10 AM PDT

The Ticket - A new poll suggests George Allen has a significant lead over Tim Kaine ahead of next year's sure-to-be-pivotal Virginia Senate race. A Roanoke College survey of likely Virginia voters finds the former GOP senator leading the former governor by 13 pointsâ€"45 percent to 32 percentâ€"just 23 percent still undecided. The poll was conducted before Kaine [...]

The showdown's winners and losers (Politico)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 12:40 PM PDT

Politico - All sides declared victory, but clear winners emerged in the budget fight.

Deal struck on ACA, Planned Parenthood (Politico)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 06:32 AM PDT

Politico - The GOP can say it's been heard and Dems can stick to their line emphasizing legislation over spending bills.

Analysis: GOP won first round of budget battle (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 11:47 AM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, announces that an agreement to avert a government shutdown was reached at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Friday, April 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Republican conservatives were the chief winners in the budget deal that forced Democrats to accept historic spending cuts they strongly opposed.

Long meetings, dashed hopes — but finally a deal (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:03 PM PDT

In this photo taken Friday, April 8, 2011, House Speaker, Republican John Boehner of Ohio, walks past the media on his way to a Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Perilously close to a midnight deadline, the White House and congressional leaders reached an agreement late Friday to cut billions of dollars in spending to avoid the first government shutdown in 15 years. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - There was barely an hour left before the midnight padlocking of government doors. In a Capitol basement meeting room, House Speaker John Boehner was telling exhausted fellow Republicans that a deal to avert a shutdown was nearly finished when an aide alerted him that staff had completed the final details and the agreement was complete.

EU wants more Portugal austerity as EU unions protest (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 06:40 AM PDT

Portugal's Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos talks with Portugal Central Bank Governor Carlos Costa (L) during the second day of an EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) informal meeting in Godollo April 9, 2011. REUTERS/Laszlo BaloghReuters - EU finance ministers on Saturday urged Portugal to commit to reforms and defended the region's austerity steps as tens of thousands of European workers protested in Budapest against spending cuts.

Iffy spending cuts part of budget pact (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:47 PM PDT

AP - Almost half of the budget cuts, some $18 billion, in the budget pact between President Barack Obama don't involve cuts to agency operating accounts spending hawks like to target. They involve cuts to so-called mandatory programs whose budgets run mostly on autopilot. Such cuts officially "score" as savings that could be used to pay for spending elsewhere, but they often have little real impact in terms of cutting the deficit.

Analysis: So much for change coming to Washington (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 09:16 AM PDT

President Obama walks from the State Dining Room to the Red Room as aide Brian Mosteller, right, holds open the door as he returns to the Blue Room at the White House in Washington after he spoke regarding the budget and averted government shutdown after a deal was made between Republican and Democrat lawmakers, Friday, April 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama promised to change Washington's ways. Yet he's as caught up in them as ever.

Rider in deal bans Obama from closing Guantanamo Bay (Daily Caller)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 12:56 PM PDT

Daily Caller - One big victory by Republicans in 11th hour negotiations to avert government shutdown was a policy rider banning President Obama from closing Guantanamo Bay, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirms.

NPR survives 11th hour spending deal (Daily Caller)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 12:04 PM PDT

Daily Caller - Despite several ugly recent episodes and considerable movement by conservative activists to defund it, federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio survived an 11th hour deal on a spending bill to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year.

How Speaker Boehner brought a recalcitrant tea party to the budget deal (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 08:41 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Nearly half an hour after a midnight deadline expired, Congress passed a stop-gap measure to fund the federal government through Thursday, avoiding a government shutdown and paving the way for historic spending cuts. The bipartisan agreement knocks $78.5 billion off President Obama’s FY 2011 budget request and cuts current levels of spending by $37.7 billion â€Â" a reversal of historic trends.
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