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The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023 — Economic growth will remain slow this year but is expected to speed up next year. Even so, CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 7.5 percent through 2014. — Read the report — Macroeconomic Effects of Alternative Budgetary Paths
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
CBO: Obama health law will cost $1.3T — The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated Tuesday that President Obama's signature healthcare law will cost about $1.3 trillion over the next 10 years. — The figure represents a slight increase since August, when the nonpartisan budget office estimated …
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law
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Associated Press:
Obama Sequestration Request Calling For Short-Term Budget Fix To Delay Automatic Cuts
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Fox News Insider:
TRANSCRIPT: President Obama Asks Congress to Avoid Sequestration Cuts, Says 'We Can't Just Cut Our Way to Prosperity'
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
John Boehner throws cold water on Obama sequester plan
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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama calls on Congress to pass spending cuts, tax changes to delay sequester
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
CBO Sees Rising U.S. Debt, Economic Rebound in 2014
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Sheldon Alberts / The Hill:
White House, Congress square off over Justice Dept. rules for drone strikes — Lawmakers squared off with the Obama administration Tuesday after the inadvertent leak of a sensitive Justice Department memorandum defending the White House's right to order armed drone strikes potentially against U.S. citizens.
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New York Times:
With Brennan Pick, a Light on Drone Strikes' Hazards — SANA, Yemen — Late last August, a 40-year-old cleric named Salem Ahmed bin Ali Jaber stood up to deliver a speech denouncing Al Qaeda in a village mosque in far eastern Yemen. — It was a brave gesture by a father of seven …
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Andrew Rafferty / NBCNews.com:
American drone deaths highlight controversy — Of the scores of people dubbed terrorists and taken out by American military drone strikes, three men — all killed in the fall of 2011 — were U.S. citizens. — And their lives illustrate the complexity of the issue, recently brought …
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The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Moe Lane and Flopping Aces
Washington Post:
Brennan nomination exposes criticism on targeted killings and secret Saudi base — President Obama's plan to install his counterterrorism adviser as director of the CIA has opened the administration to new scrutiny over the targeted-killing policies it has fought to keep hidden from the public …
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The Atlantic Online, Guardian and AEIdeas
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Carney: Drone strikes are ‘fully consistent’ with the Constitution
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans Widely Support Immigration Reform Proposals — Greatest support for employers' verifying new hires' legal status — PRINCETON, NJ — At least two-thirds of Americans favor each of five specific measures designed to address immigration issues — ranging from 68% who would vote …
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Greg Holyk / ABCNEWS:
Poll Finds a Boost for Obama on Handling Immigration — Public approval of Barack Obama's handling of immigration has jumped to a career high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, buttressed by majority support for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and, much more broadly, endorsement of stricter border control.
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
DREAMers Target GOP, Chant ‘Undocumented And Unafraid’ At Immigration Hearing
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Dick Morris out at Fox News — Fox News has decided not to renew its contract with political commentator and pollster Dick Morris, an industry official tells POLITICO's Mike Allen. — Morris, who was on contract with Fox News throughout the 2012 presidential campaign …
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DickMorris.com, The Moderate Voice, Washington Times, The Hinterland Gazette and Taegan Goddard's …
Politico:
Embattled Scott plans $100M campaign vs. Crist — Rick Scott is preparing to defend the Florida governorship with the most expensive reelection campaign in state history, drawing up plans for a battleship-sized political operation aimed at overcoming the Republican's deep personal unpopularity.
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
NRA Endorsement Actually A Curse For Candidates, Poll Finds — Endorsements from the National Rifle Association might be doing political candidates more harm than good, according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling. — In a national survey, 39 percent of voters said that they are less likely …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Postal Service cutting back mail delivery — The U.S. Postal Service is cutting service on Saturdays to save money. — The service announced Wednesday that it would discontinue mail delivery on Saturday but still continue to deliver packages six days per week, according to the Associated Press.
Ben Hartman / Jerusalem Post:
WATCH: TA marks space handicapped and tows car — Security cameras show Tel Aviv municipality workers painting handicapped markings around parked vehicle and then towing it. — The Tel Aviv municipality found itself in hot water on Tuesday, after a Facebook post by a woman whose car …
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Outside the Beltway and The Raw Story
Jason Koebler / US News:
City in Virginia Becomes First to Pass Anti-Drone Legislation — Resolution bans all municipal agencies from buying or leasing drones — Charlottesville, Va., has become the first city in the United States to formally pass an anti-drone resolution. — The resolution, passed Monday …
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Arthur C. Brooks / AEI:
Remarks by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (as prepared for delivery) — MAJORITY LEADER ERIC CANTOR, R-Va.: Thank you Arthur. Arthur, you've been an inspiration for me, and so many of my colleagues. — The work of Arthur and his colleagues at AEI has demonstrated an incredible understanding …
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Are Upset That Obama Is Giving Remarks At The Same Time As Eric Cantor's Speech
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett Declines Medicaid Expansion — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) announced Tuesday that his state will turn down the Medicaid expansion, becoming the first governor of a blue state to officially say no to the coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act that the Supreme Court made optional.
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Booman Tribune
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Christie on weight: ‘Of course I care’ — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talked about struggles with his weight on Tuesday, saying his doctor has warned him that his “luck is going to run out relatively soon” but that it doesn't affect his ability to run the Garden State.
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NewsBusters blogs and ABCNEWS
Janet Lorin / Bloomberg:
Yale Suing Former Students Shows Crisis in Loans to Poor — Needy U.S. borrowers are defaulting on almost $1 billion in federal student loans earmarked for the poor, leaving schools such as Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania with little choice except to sue their graduates.
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Truthdig and The Daily Caller
Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Brown on Perry's ad: ‘Barely a fart’ — Gov. Jerry Brown publicly scoffed at Gov. Rick Perry's attempt to draw Californians to Texas for better business, saying that the ad campaign is “barely a fart.” — “It's not a serious story, guys,” the Californian Democrat told reporters at a business event …
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Twitchy and Capitol Alert
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens — The president's partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize — The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens …
Geoffrey Dickens / Author Feed:
ABC, CBS, NBC Slant 8 to 1 for Obama's Gun Control Crusade — At next week's State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama is likely to continue his ongoing push for more gun control. It's a push first spurred on by Obama's gun control allies in the liberal media.
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Washington Examiner, Nice Deb and TheBlaze.com
Andrew Sparrow / Guardian:
MPs vote in favour of gay marriage: Politics live blog — Sort by: — 9.18pm GMT — Evening summary — • Britain is on course to adopt gay marriage after the House of Commons voted to give the marriage (same sex couples) bill a second reading by a majority of 225.
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The Fix and Washington Monthly
Joel Griffith / BREITBART.COM:
KRUGMAN: U.S. NEEDS DEATH PANELS, SALES TAXES — Nobel Prize winning “economist” Paul Krugman spoke at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. last week. During the Q&A session following the lecture, an audience member asked him about the rising national debt.
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