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							<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers Trade Offers as Clock Ticks]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lori Montgomery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senate negotiators labored late into Saturday over a last-ditch plan to avert the &ldquo;fiscal cliff,&rdquo; struggling to resolve key differences over how many wealthy households should face higher income taxes in the new year and how to tax inherited estates.As the clock ticked toward...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: Defense Sequester &quot;Will Not Happen&quot;]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lori Montgomery</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Amid Debt Crisis, Paul Ryan Sat on Sidelines]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lori Montgomery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to his pal Kevin McCarthy, vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan is &ldquo;the thinker&rdquo; of the GOP, the fiscal visionary with the plan to lead America out of debt and into the promised land of balanced budgets.&ldquo;Paul is knowledge,&rdquo; said McCarthy (Calif.), the No....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Social Security Went &quot;Cash Negative&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-debt-fallout-how-social-security-went-cash-negative-earlier-than-expected/2011/10/27/gIQACm1QTM_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lori Montgomery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last year, as a debate over the runaway national debt gathered steam in Washington, Social Security passed a treacherous milestone. It went &ldquo;cash negative.&rdquo;For most of its 75-year history, the program had paid its own way through a dedicated stream of payroll taxes, even...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CBO: Obama Policies Will Explode Debt]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lori Montgomery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama&rsquo;s  budget plan would produce deficits of $9.5 trillion over the next  decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Friday &ndash; more  than $2 trillion higher than White House estimates.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Map Out Agenda for Less]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lori Montgomery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans are mapping an agenda for the new Congress that calls for a radical reduction in government spending, a hard-line stance against new taxes and a "sustained" battle against federal regulators - all aimed at easing the concerns of voters desperate for jobs and anxious about the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bad Economy Threatens Dem Claims]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/24/AR2010082406753.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lori Montgomery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A rapidly weakening economy threatens to undermine President Obama's assertion that he has set the nation on a path to prosperity and, with barely two months until congressional midterm elections, Democrats find themselves with few options for reviving the faltering recovery.The latest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Seek Quick Deal on Health Bill]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lori Montgomery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama and congressional leaders raced Friday to strike a compromise on far-reaching health legislation, hoping to settle lingering disputes before Tuesday, when a special election in Massachusetts could hand Republicans their 41st vote in the Senate and the power to defeat...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pelosi to Propose Raising Debt Ceiling]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lori Montgomery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the national debt projected to soar by nearly $1.4 trillion this year, congressional Democrats are planning a year-end push to dramatically increase the legal debt limit so they don't have to revisit the politically uncomfortable issue in 2010, when they will face voters in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Tax Pledge a Target as Deficits Grow]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082803526.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fate of Health-Care Effort May Boil Down to Cost]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama to Cut War Spending, Increase Taxes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/21/AR2009022100911_pf.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Tax Plan Would Balloon Deficit]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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