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• Club for Growth — Senate Passes $1.1 Trillion Omnibus

  —The Kansas Progress

  The final tally was 57-35. Republicans Thad Cochran, Olympia Snowe, and Richard Shelby voted YES with most Democrats. Evan Bayh, Russ Feingold, and Claire McCaskill voted NO with the GOP.
  
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 4:40pm EST
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• December Roberts Report

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  December 11, 2009 Health Care Reform Health Care continues to be the top issue in the U.S. Senate. The current $2.5 trillion health care reform bill will result in higher premiums, tax increases and Medicare cuts to pay for more government. This bill cuts home health care, nursing homes, hospitals, Medicare, and [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 2:11pm EST
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• WSJ — Congress Squabbles Over Debt Ceiling

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  House Democrats said Friday they intend to add “pay as you go” budget rules to legislation that would raise the ceiling by $1.8 trillion and ensure the U.S. doesn’t default on its debt obligations. Pay-go rules, a priority of conservative Democrats, require new legislation to be paid for with spending [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 12:31am EST
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• US debt limit to rise by $1.8 to 1.9 trillion

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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 2:24am EST
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• Debt ceiling going through the roof

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  The government will need to borrow at least $1.8 trillion next year, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said today. That’s more than earlier estimates. Raising the nation’s debt ceiling is a regular action for Congress. But this year, some lawmakers are trying to tie the [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:43pm EST
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• Politico — Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash

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  The leadership is betting that it’s better for the party to take its lumps now rather than risk further votes over the coming year. But the enormity of the number could create its own dynamic, much as another debt ceiling fight in 1985 gave rise to the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:11am EST
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