Posts Tagged ‘Short’

Time Running Short for Congress to Keep Student-Loan Rates From Doubling

Student-loan reform has emerged as one of the few bipartisan bridges in a budget battle marked by stark divides. After gaveling open a House hearing on federal student-aid programs Tuesday, Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., called President Obama’s student-loan reform plan “one bright spot” in his budget—a budget Foxx called “disappointing” last week. Politics News Headlines [...]

Obama Open to Short Term Sequester Deal

The White House said President Obama supports $ 2 in spending cuts for every $ 1 in revenue for a sequester replacement bill, Roll Call reports. Tweet This Post

AP source: Obama to ask for short term budget plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials say President Barack Obama will ask Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Reid: Replace automatic cuts in short increments

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Democrat in the Senate said Tuesday that lawmakers should redouble their efforts to replace looming across-the-board cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs with alternative spending cuts and tax hikes. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

GOP Mulls Short Term Extension of Debt Ceiling

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) told the Wall Street Journal that Republicans “are discussing whether to support a short-term increase in the nation’s borrowing authority, possibly linking the debt ceiling to future talks aimed at reaching a major deficit deal.” Tweet This Post

Cost-cut talk is long on emotion, short on details

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the heated talk about deep spending cuts that will dominate Congress in the coming weeks, one thing is likely to be in short supply: details. Tweet This Post