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Erskine Boyce Bowles (; born August 8, 1945) is an American businessman and political figure from North Carolina.
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White House blasts bipartisan Medicare fix applauded by GOP frontrunners
It shouldn't come as any surprise that Politico reported today that President Obama plans to mount a sustained and vigorous negative campaign against presumed Republ...
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner 's got to go, and he's got to go quickly.The president can't stick with him, it's an absurd mistake, he needs a change in directi...
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The Obama White House is making a public push for "significant" spending cuts as part of a deficit-reduction deal, marking an apparent departure from the days when P...
One of the leaders of President Obama's now-defunct deficit panel warned Tuesday the latest committee tasked with solving the nation's debt crisis that he's concerne...
It was an example of one of the most vexing ways of Washington -- lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle agreeing on the problem, but never reaching a solution.A...
The same Republicans who vote for tax cuts for the rich have tried to choke off long-term unemployment benefits.Last week marked the 10th anniversary of the passage ...
Republicans named a mix of partisans and pragmatists on Wednesday to the new congressional committee charged with striking a debt-cutting compromise. While members o...
China Looms Over Obama Jobs Push"Cree management never runs this company as a U.S. company. We consider Cree to be a global company with local wisdoms."-- Chuck Swob...
President Obama and top budget analysts are warning the so-called debt Super Committee not to take the easy way out of their mandate to cut the deficit by at least $...
The House took up a stringent GOP budget plan Wednesday that blends big cuts to safety-net programs for the poor with a plan to dramatically overhaul Medicare, kicki...
A congressional report detailing the value of major tax breaks shows they amount to more than $1 trillion a year—roughly the size of the annual federal budget defici...
With television lights glaring, 20 lawmakers will gather next week to revisit the fight that consumed Congress before Christmas over renewing a Social Security payro...
Today is President's Day, which we mark with tributes to the 44 men who've held that office. But while we honor their accomplishments, two events this month remind u...
Fiscal watchdogs and Republican lawmakers are expressing dismay at new figures showing the U.S. debt has now exceeded the nation's economic output.According to the B...
The January forecast for Congress calls for a continued deep freeze.That means the most important public policy debates facing the nation will remain locked under th...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will introduce "compromise" legislation to extend the payroll tax holiday on Monday, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee sa...