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Budget Battles

  • Will Germany Swallow Inflation to Save the EU?

    By Patrick Smith

    This weekend’s G-8 summit at Camp David, the U.S. president’s retreat, marks a big step for Europe in several different ways. After a couple of weeks of waffling, German Chancellor Angela Merkel now...

  • Visitor Logs Show Lobbyists Welcome at White House

    By T.W. FARNAM, The Washington Post

    More than any president before him, Obama pledged to change the political culture that has fueled the influence of lobbyists. He barred recent lobbyists from joining his administration and banned...

  • Rhee, Backed by Big Bucks, Vows Schools Overhaul

    By Stephanie Simon, Reuters

    During her tumultuous three years at the head of the Washington D.C. public schools, Michelle Rhee set off a lot of fireworks. She's still doing it, on a national stage. Rhee has emerged as leader of...

  • Constitutional or Not, Let's End the Filibuster

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    One of the things people constantly complain about is the tendency of the media to treat Republicans and Democrats as equally complicit on issues such as the deficit, even if one side actually...

  • Dems Return Fire on Boehner over Fiscal Crisis

    By Eric Pianin

    Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Democratic Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad returned fire on House Speaker John Boehner after the speaker revealed this week that Republicans will...