Topic: U.S. Democratic Party

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are proposing up to $3 trillion in measures to slash the U.S. budget deficit, including revenue increases and significant cuts to the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly.The plan was unveiled on Tuesday at a closed-door meeting ...

President Barack Obama and his Republican opponents headed Tuesday into a third straight day of talks seeking an elusive deal to avert a potentially ruinous early August default on US debt payments.The 3:45 pm (1935 GMT) discussions at the White House came ...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama and congressional leaders meet at the White House on Thursday to resume stalled budget negotiations that aim to get the national debt under control and avert a looming default.The Treasury Department has warned that it will run ...

Republicans should stop their push for a plan that Americans don't wantStinging from a public rebuke over his plan to gut Medicare, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is still blaming Democrats for playing politics with the issue. Ryan, the House budget chief, has ...

It's hard to overstate just how profoundly Republicans underestimated the public's distaste for their draconian Medicare proposal.Aside from the rich, the electorate is hurting — a pulsing mass of tender nerves, hypersensitive to things that portend pain, reflexively reacting to the thump ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic victory in a reliably Republican House of Representatives district this week has lawmakers running scared from reforming Medicare, greatly reducing chances of a comprehensive deal to cut the long-term deficit.Rarely in recent years has a single, off-year ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic victory in a reliably Republican House district on Tuesday has lawmakers running scared from reforming Medicare, greatly reducing chances of a comprehensive deal to cut America's long-term deficit.Rarely in recent times has a single, off-year special election ...

A Republican budget plan calling for radical changes to Medicare took a drubbing in the US Senate, a day after voters in upstate New York expressed their disapproval by electing a Democrat.On Wednesday the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 57 to 40 against the ...

GOP House to vote to repeal health care overhaul before Obama's State of the UnionEager to show who's now in charge, the House's new Republican majority plans to vote to repeal President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul before he even shows ...

" It exposes whoremongering Wall Street traders, economic consultants who lie on their resumes and Hank Paulson's conflicts.. Because the Reagan administration - "supported by economists and financial lobbyists" - started a 30-year regulatory vacation that fomented unparalleled "greed and immorality" on ...