Topic: U.S. Republican Party

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 ...

Republicans continue to push foolish budget plan that would end MedicareFormer Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich ran into trouble with his colleagues recently after he disparaged the GOP plan to gut Medicare and take away the guarantee of medical insurance for seniors.Speaking ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Republican rift over the government health program for older Americans widened on Monday as Congressman Paul Ryan hit back at criticism of his Medicare overhaul plan from within his own party.In a speech to the Economic Club of ...

US Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday he was optimistic after a new round of talks with Republicans on cutting the long-term deficit, as a high-stakes row rumbled on over government borrowing.Biden emerged from the meeting with senior Republicans giving few details, ...

Bruised by a grueling battle with his foes in Congress, President Barack Obama sought Saturday to reassure his Democratic base as he unveiled a budget strategy with an eye to the 2012 race.In his weekly radio address, the president took a new ...