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Budget Battles

  • Some Republicans See ‘Chance’ of Budget Deal Soon

    By Reuters

    Leading congressional Republicans said on Sunday a broad deal with President Barack Obama on deficit reduction and entitlement reform remains possible but differed over potential flexibility on taxes...

  • Rand Paul Edges Out Marco Rubio in CPAC Straw Poll

    By Samuel P Jacobs, Reuters

    Conservative activists picked Senator Rand Paul on Saturday as their preferred presidential nominee for 2016, in an early but often unreliable snapshot of the Republican Party's base.

  • CPAC Exposes Rifts in GOP As Party Looks for a Winner

    By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post

    If there was any doubt about the huge amount of discord within the Republican Party, the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference should put it to rest. The suburban Washington gathering of...

  • Drones

    The Booming Business of High-Tech Border Security

    By Lourdes Medrano, The Fiscal Times

    For two days this week, the 30,000-square foot exhibit hall at the Phoenix Convention Center was a smorgasbord of those unmanned aerial vehicles, high-tech sensors, surveillance cameras, wireless...

  • At CPAC, GOP Talks of Future But Gets Stuck on Past

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Republicans gathered en masse outside D.C. to talk about their future, but much of the focus of speeches Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference was on the past.