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Now, by God, it is TEA TIME!
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Chastened GOP leaders promised Thursday to find a full $100 billion in spending cuts after freshmen lawmakers torpedoed a proposal that they said betrayed the party’s “Pledge to America.”
In a stinging rebuke to party leadership, Republicans on the Appropriations Committee abandoned plans to seek only $74 billion in cuts just hours before their continuing resolution was set to be unveiled...
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House Republican leaders got a rude jolt from tea-party insurgents on the budget this week, but potential GOP presidential hopefuls hewed Friday to tea-partiers' views on spending.
At an annual gathering of conservative activists in Washington, attendees celebrated their influence, highlighted in the move by Republican leaders to seek billions of dollars in additional budget cuts after an initial draft faced criticism...
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This is a preliminary list of cuts proposed by Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee for the rest of the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. Committee leaders have said they will release a much deeper set of cuts as early as Friday...
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Revolution does seem to be in the air these days.
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Chastened GOP leaders promised Thursday to find a full $100 billion in spending cuts after freshmen lawmakers torpedoed a proposal that they said betrayed the party’s “Pledge to America.”
In a stinging rebuke to party leadership, Republicans on the Appropriations Committee abandoned plans to seek only $74 billion in cuts just hours before their continuing resolution was set to be unveiled...
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House Republican leaders got a rude jolt from tea-party insurgents on the budget this week, but potential GOP presidential hopefuls hewed Friday to tea-partiers' views on spending.
At an annual gathering of conservative activists in Washington, attendees celebrated their influence, highlighted in the move by Republican leaders to seek billions of dollars in additional budget cuts after an initial draft faced criticism...
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This is a preliminary list of cuts proposed by Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee for the rest of the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. Committee leaders have said they will release a much deeper set of cuts as early as Friday...
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Revolution does seem to be in the air these days.
