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GOP Leaders Take Political Risk With Deal
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Speaker Boehner's difficulties getting Republican votes in the U.S. House of Representatives. 151 Congressmen and majority leader Cantor voted against the McConnell-Biden fiscal cliff agreement of Jan. 1, 2013.
The phone call leading to the McConnell-Biden U.S. fiscal cliff deal of Jan. 1, 2013
10/25/2010
A phone call from Senator Biden begins the negotiations stalled first between Boehner and Obama, and then stalled between McConnell and Reid. Reid advised Obama to hold out for a better deal. Biden went on the Senate floor to ask if there was someone on the other side willing to dance. At that point Biden consulted Obama and the two decided it was worth a shot. Cantor and 151 Republicans opposed the deal with no spending cuts and McConnell trading higher estate taxes for extending unemployment benefits and postponing cuts. Boehner supported it and the deal passed the House.
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The Boehner and Reid plans for U.S. deficit reduction one week before the Aug 2, 2011, debt ceiling deadline
07/13/2011
The politics behind competing factions, moderate Republicans Boehner and McConnell, Cantor and freshman Republicans, Reid and Pelosi Democrats, and the Obama White House, as they wrestle with the deficit. The political calculations and perceptions of each faction for the 2012 presidential elections.
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Wall Street Journal 07/13/2011
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New York Times 10/04/2013
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Calls for President Obama to act decisively in Libya.
03/05/2011
The March 7, 2011 Wall Street Journal editorial calls for military action in Libya to prevent the Ghadafi regime from suppressing the democracy protests inside Libya. Other calls for action from Senators McConnell, McCain, and Kerry over the weekend March 5-6. The slow and hesitant response of the Obama administration.
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Mitch McConnell's strategy in his debt ceiling initiative in mid 2011
07/13/2011
McConnell's twin goals of regaining Republican control of the Senate and preventing the re-election of Obama. How the debt ceiling plan he has offered fits in with this. His fears that a default on the U.S. debt could hurt Republicans as it did the last time this happened, when Clinton was re-elected. His plan would separate raising the debt ceiling limit from deficit reduction talks.
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Budget Shell Games Are Contrary to Law
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Wall Street Journal 07/18/2011
Bob Woodward: The inside story of how Obama and Boehner negotiate - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/07/2013
Wall Street Journal 07/14/2011
The Republican Case for Compromise Over the Debt Ceiling
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The U.S. Debt Ceiling and Deficit Reduction Deal of August 2, 2011
01/16/2009
The deal finally put together by Vice President Biden and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell on August 2, 2011. The deal requires the setting up of a debt panel to come up with additional savings.
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Budget Shell Games Are Contrary to Law
Wall Street Journal 07/14/2011
New York Times 10/20/2013
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New York Times 07/31/2011
Could this Deal Raise Budget Deficits
New York Times 08/01/2011
The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling
New York Times 07/31/2011
Speaker John Boehner of the U.S. House of Representatives
07/12/2011
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Bob Woodward: The inside story of how Obama and Boehner negotiate - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/07/2013
Boehner Urges G.O.P. Unity in âEpic Battleâ
New York Times 10/04/2013
In Rural Iowa, Spending, Not the Shutdown, Raises Worry
New York Times 10/04/2013
House Speaker John Boehner to resign: Live updates - The Washington Post
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Washington Post 09/26/2015
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