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McCain urges U.S. to restore Colombia trade benefits

2011-02-17T12:00:13Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to help broker a deal that would restore valuable trade benefits for Colombia, a stalwart U.S. friend still reeling from recent seve...

Republican Debate (January 30)

2010-11-30T13:55:20Z

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McCain Economic Rescue Plan

2010-11-30T13:53:46Z

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Nothing New Ad

2010-11-30T13:54:31Z

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Hofstra University Debate

2010-11-30T13:51:53Z

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Commentary: First presidential debate analysis

2010-11-29T16:03:51Z

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Wasteful uses of the stimulus plan funds

2010-11-29T15:43:18Z

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obama tax cuts | "TRY THIS" new ad | taxcutfacts

2010-11-03T03:41:28Z

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Sarah Palin's Political Views

2010-11-03T03:10:32Z

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Ruining the Stimulus

2010-11-03T03:20:31Z

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Class Warfare in the 21st Century?

2010-11-03T00:00:11Z

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" THE SYNTHESIS " 2-7-2010 EDITION

2010-11-03T00:09:52Z

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Republicans detail wasteful U.S. stimulus spending

2010-08-03T16:02:37Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An election-year war of words over the effectiveness of President Barack Obama's $862 billion economic stimulus law ratcheted up on Tuesday as Republicans detailed spending projects they said were wasteful and failed to achieve the main goal of job creation.

"If we'r...

Bailout vote could claim two more GOP lawmakers

2010-06-26T05:34:13Z

Vote to aid troubled banks roils GOP primaries, claims one senator, more lawmakers could fall

One Republican senator lost his job because he voted for the 2008 bank bailout. Two other GOP lawmakers may be next.

Former President George W. Bush's lifeline to financial institutions is roiling GOP primaries, with Republicans who r...

Sen Dodd: restoring Glass-Steagall "difficult"

2010-10-13T15:03:31Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said on Thursday it would be "pretty difficult" to reinstate 1930s-era Glass-Steagall limits on banking as proposed in two bills in Congress.

His remarks suggested an uphill climb ahead for legislation, filed ...

McCain backs bills that would split big banks

2010-10-13T15:02:45Z

McCain backs bills that would split up big banks as Senate looks at consumer agency compromise

Two senators, one from each party, called Wednesday for breaking up large financial firms that perform both commercial and investment banking, adding a wrinkle to already difficult talks in the Senate on how to regulate Wall Street.

Sens. John McCain, the for...

SIZING UP THE CANDIDATES ON MAJOR MONEY ISSUES

2010-10-22T12:04:02Z

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October 1, 2008 (Wednesday): Bailout Bill Passes Senate; Buffett Invests in GE

2010-10-24T09:32:29Z

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Deficit Spending Is Fueling the Recovery

2010-10-22T07:25:32Z

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McCain refuses to consider taxes to reduce deficit

2010-04-16T10:41:30Z

McCain: Raising taxes not needed to reduce ballooning deficit; gov't can cut spending instead

Sen. John McCain is refusing to consider raising taxes to reduce the ballooning deficit.

McCain was asked on ABC's "This Week" whether he would make a similar pledge as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to do whatever it takes to bring down the def...

EXPERTS SPEAK ON THE RECORD

2010-10-22T11:24:09Z

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ON THE PROWL

2010-10-22T10:46:27Z

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GOP unifies against any more stimulus spending

2010-04-16T11:22:47Z

Republicans line up against current stimulus and a potential second stimulus spending plan

Republicans lined up Sunday in opposition to a second economic stimulus package, a rare demonstration of unity from an out-of-power political party in search of a rallying cry against President Barack Obama.

Republicans called Obama's $787 billion spending plan a "flop" and said it hasn't fulfilled its hype. They ...

Economist Vs. Economist

2010-10-22T07:41:47Z

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White House open to new tax on health benefits

2010-04-16T11:40:33Z

Campaign promise aside, Obama open to proposal to tax health benefits for middle-class workers

The Obama White House left open the possibility Sunday that the president would break a campaign promise and raise taxes on people earning less than $250,000 to support his health care overhaul agenda.

White House adviser

SPIN METER: White House straddles health tax issue

2010-04-16T11:55:29Z

SPIN METER: White House elusive on health taxes; Obama hasn't said yes, aides haven't said no

When it comes to taxing health insurance benefits, President Barack Obama hasn't said yes, and may never. But he and his top aides won't quite say no, either, to an idea he attacked sharply in his campaign for the White House.

Instead, they are in fu...

Imagining President McCain

2010-10-26T20:40:37Z

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The GOP's Stimulus Speciousness

2010-10-26T20:43:21Z

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Can Tax Cuts Help Improve The American Economy?

2010-10-14T13:46:31Z

Writer: Darren Ng

Op-Ed

Can Tax Cuts Help Improve the American Economy?

In this paper, I intend to pursue a discussion which fundamentally affirms the relative benefits of Senator Barack Obama's plan to increase taxes, in view of the telling need to rescue the American economy, against the disadvantages of Senator John McCain's proposal to push for tax reductions. I intend to take cue from the manner by which these two senators have capitalized on the cu...

UPDATE 1-U.S. should let some big banks fail - Republicans

2010-10-21T09:53:47Z

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When in doubt, whip Las Vegas

2010-04-16T16:10:57Z

This time it’s McCain, ranting against money sought by UNLV

Railing this week against pork barrel corruption in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, Arizona Republican John McCain called the more than 8,500 earmarks in it an outrageous insult to the American people.

Among the dozen examples he ticked off while ...

Both parties play the blame game for economic woes

2010-04-16T16:12:29Z

SPIN METER: Republicans and Democrats play the blame game for nation's economic woes

Sen. John McCain deployed heavy sarcasm. Fellow Republican Marsha Blackburn trotted out a chart. A group of conservat...

Obama pledges to slash deficit _ after increase

2010-04-16T14:08:29Z

Urging strict future restraint even as current spending soars, President Barack Obama pledged on Monday to dramatically slash the skyrocketing annual budget deficit as he started to dole out the record $787 billion economic stimulus package he signed last week.

"If we confront this crisis without also confronting the deficits that helped cause it, we risk sinking into another crisis down the road," the president warned, promis...

Where’s the bipartisanship?

2010-06-26T00:04:32Z

Republicans won’t get anywhere if they don’t seek common ground with Democrats

It look less than one month into Democrat Barack Obama’s presidency for the defeated Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and fellow members of his political party in Obama plans to head west to sign stimulus bill, detail foreclosure plan, seek public support

Keeping the economy front and center, President Barack Obama heads west this week to sign the $787 billion stimulus bill and tackle the home mortgage foreclosure crisis. The direct appeals for public support follow scant GOP backing in Congress ...

New York's Stimulus Signers, Paterson's Postponements

2010-04-16T17:14:48Z

Only nine House members got their name on the stimulus bill, but two were Nydia Velazquez and Ed Towns. [Brooklyn Paper]

Chuck Schumer saved a bakery--but can he save a hospital? [QC]

Although the city has admitted...

Democrats kill McCain's alternative stimulus plan

2010-04-16T17:15:58Z

Senate Democrats kill McCain's alternative economic stimulus plan

The Senate has killed an alternative economic stimulus plan by Sen. John McCain that would have cut income and payroll taxes but spent far less than President Obama's plan.

The party-line 57-40 vote against McCai...

US Senate dilutes 'Buy American' clause

2010-10-22T13:21:37Z

The US Senate agreed late Wednesday to dilute a "Buy American" clause from its stimulus plan that angered US allies, but rejected a separate effort to strip it from the bill.

Lawmakers approved by voice vote to soften the clause's language, requiring it to adhere to existing laws and trade treaties, according to the Senate's website.

The clause had forbidden stimulus spending on a project unless all of the iron, steel and ...

US Senate heads toward stimulus vote

2010-06-26T02:45:02Z

US senators headed towards a vote Thursday on a stimulus plan worth more than 900 billion dollars to revive the plunging economy after diluting a "Buy America" clause that angered key trade allies.

Lawmakers softened the clause forbidding stimulus spending on a project unless all of the iron, steel and manufactured goods involved are made in the United States in a vote late Wednesday.

The diluted language ensures that ...

Obama fires shot at Republicans on stimulus plan

2010-06-26T02:45:06Z

President Barack Obama fired the sharpest warning of his young presidency at Republicans who are mustered against his 900-billion-dollar stimulus plan for the plunging US economy.

Democrat Obama has sought to build bipartisan support fo...

McCain tries to 'kill' US-only stimulus clause

2010-06-26T00:38:11Z

Republican Senator John McCain on Wednesday introduced legislation to strip from a massive economic stimulus bill a "Buy American" clause that has deeply angered and worried US allies.

"I've got an amendment to try to kill it," McCain, who lost the White House to Senator John McCain on Monday heaped more pressure on Barack Obama to modify his 819-billion-dollar stimulus package and insisted the US president "seriously negotiate" with Republicans on a new version.

McCain, vanquished by Obama in the 2008 presidential race, was part of a growing chorus of conservative criticism ...

McCain: stimulus bill has too much spending

2010-04-16T15:03:43Z

McCain says Democrats' economic stimulus bill spends too much, cuts taxes too little

Senator John McCain says there's too much unnecessary spending and too few tax cuts in the Obama administration's economic proposals to stimulate the economy.

The McCain pledges to work with Obama, rejecting attempts to link president-elect to Ill. scandal

Republican Sen. John McCain pledged Sunday to work with his former Democratic rival, President-elect Barack Obama, on economic and national security issues.

He also rejected Republican attempts to link Obama to the scandal surrounding Michelle Obama was proud of her country!

The big loser of this election is Colin Powell, whose last-minute endorsement of Obama put the Illinois senator over the top. Powell was probably at home last night, yelling at his TV, "Are you...

Obama Tax Hikes Disaster for Economy

2010-10-13T13:58:43Z

Joe the Plumber is on to something: If a President McCain had his way, Americans could expect to keep their tax cuts. They'd also see their household income grow more, along with jobs and the economy, than would be the case under a President Obama.

[On Page 3, Heritage colleagues provide a state-by-state compar...

Regulation

2010-10-21T10:47:16Z

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Congress Should Address Capital Gains and Corporate Taxes Differently

2010-10-21T09:12:37Z

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McCain's failure is a warning to Cameron: offer tax cuts before Brown does

2010-04-16T14:30:48Z

There was something almost comic about Gordon Brown and David Cameron's rush to associate themselves with Barack Obama's victory, each offering their own quite different interpretation.

The Prime Minister declared that people are looking to government to help them during the economic downturn. The Conservative le...

5 reasons Obama won

2010-10-21T09:23:25Z

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McCAIN AND PALIN TAKE THEIR LAST BEST SHOTS

2010-04-16T14:37:44Z

McCAIN AND PALIN TAKE THEIR LAST BEST SHOTS

With just days to go before the end of the most historic and electrifying Presidential election in generations, I caught up with Senator John McCain and running mate Governor Sarah Palin in Pennsylvania, a fiercely contested battleground state. McCain was in good spirits...

McCain shows defiance, five days from election

2010-04-16T14:38:33Z

Republican John McCain sought to revive his White House hopes in the symbolically named town of Defiance Thursday as grim new figures on the US economy boosted Democratic rival Barack Obama.

With just five days of campaigning left, McCain launched a bus to...

Obama, McCain set stage for last week of race

2010-04-16T14:38:40Z

Barack Obama and John McCain will fight a weekend duel over states won in 2004 by President George W. Bush, a sure sign of the Democrat's edge heading into the last week of the White House race.

A heavy-hearted Obama arrived back on the Battle lines forming between Obama Democrats and McCain Republicans over 2nd stimulus plan

With the economy the No. 1 issue just eight weeks from Election Day, majority-party Democrats are trying to push a second stimulus package through Congress to follow the tax rebate checks sent out earlier this year.

So far, Rep...

Obama and McCain: Big economic differences

2010-04-16T14:41:10Z

Obama, McCain economic plans rely on tax cuts, but in sharply different ways

Job No. 1 for the next president? In the minds of an overwhelming number of Americans, it's fixing what ails the sick economy. What the voters will have to sort out are very different approaches offered by Barack Obama and John McCain.

Both of their fix-up plans rely heavily...

As economy dominates, Obama, McCain seek answers

2010-10-13T13:58:55Z

Economic pain forces Obama, McCain to seek new plans; Iraq fades as dominant campaign issue

The economy is deteriorating so quickly and dramatically that it threatens to overtake many proposals the presidential candidates have been offering for months.

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are sugges...

McCain, Obama duel on economic fix-it plans

2010-04-16T14:44:25Z

Obama, McCain duel on how to fix economy, emerging as dominant issue of presidential campaign

Barack Obama and John McCain agree on this much: The economy is staggering under the Bush administration, and Americans are hurting. But who's to blame and how best to fix it?

Well, they part ways on that, as they made clear in dueling economic speeches Mond...

McCain vows greatest comeback yet

2010-04-16T14:53:57Z

Republican John McCain confessed Monday his White House odds looked daunting as rival Barack Obama built a commanding poll lead, but insisted he was the experienced hand that a nation in crisis requires.

As the Democrat unveiled a four-point plan to get the stricken US economy back on its feet, new polls gave hi...

Financial crisis creates daring duel for McCain, Obama

2010-04-16T14:54:06Z

With 40 days to go until election day, the fast-moving global financial crisis has transformed the White House race into a daring duel of political brinkmanship for John McCain and Barack Obama.

It was a compelling day of political bluff and counter-bluff Wednesday with each of the rivals trying to show the stead...

Obama calls for rescue to help 'Main Street' over Wall Street

2010-04-16T14:54:08Z

Democrat Barack Obama called Friday for a globally coordinated financial rescue plan that puts the taxpayers on Main Street ahead of the imprudent investors on Wall Street.

As the US government readied a massive bailout, Obama warned his White House rival John McC...

Obama's tax plans 'just plain dumb : McCain

2010-04-16T14:54:17Z

Republican White House candidate John McCain on Thursday branded Barack Obama's tax policies as "just plain dumb" after new global finance shocks rocked the presidential race.

McCain said here that he would fire the head of the Global economic turmoil will be Bush's problem for 77 days after presidential election

The world is anxiously awaiting new ideas and fresh leadership from America's new president to deal with the economic crisis that has encircled the globe with sickening speed. Unemployment is climbing, the stock market has plummeted and businesses are teetering.

But for 77 days after the election, the problems will ...

'Town-Hall' Debate Turned Into Bidding Contest

2010-04-16T14:58:40Z

Last week's town-hall-style presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville was supposed to suit John McCain. Barack Obama wasn't supposed to be comfortable - unable to achieve any rhetorical comfort - without his constant companion, the teleprompter. But b...

Capital Briefs

2010-10-13T14:59:04Z

* PALIN DISSENTS: One Republican who clearly disagreed with the McCain campaign's stunning decision to abandon Michigan last week was its vice presidential candidate. The morning after the announcement of the Michigan exit and the day after her own televised debate with Joe Biden, Sarah Palin told Fact Check '08: McCain, Obama go 1 more lap with deceptive claims and fuzzy numbers

Americans who tuned in to the last round of John McCain and Barack Obama campaign rallies will be voting Tuesday with some false notes ringing in their ears along with the hurrahs.

McCain and running mate Sarah Palin

Where McCain, Obama stand on the issues

2010-08-25T13:28:43Z

Presidential candidates Obama, McCain on issues from abortion to trade

The plans of presidential candidates are never set in stone, if only because circumstances and the makeup of Congress change after the election. The uncertainty is even deeper in this election because Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain laid out most of their agenda before ...

Palin attacks Obama on taxes, other issues in last pitch to N.C.

2010-04-16T15:00:38Z

She tells Raleigh rally he can't keep U.S. safe

RALEIGH - Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, made a final pitch to North Carolina voters last night, saying that "only John McCa...

Palin campaigns for GOP ticket in must-win Ohio

2010-04-16T15:00:43Z

Time running short, Palin campaigns for ticket in must-win Ohio

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin focused on tax and leadership issues Sunday as she opened two days of campaigning in this must win swing state.

Palin told a crowd of more than 3,000 at a field house that she and Republican presidential candidate John McCain are committed...

Is Barack Obama Really a Socialist?

2010-09-22T06:20:06Z

Have you heard the latest smear tactic from the McCain/Palin/Fox News campaign team? You know, that one about Barack Obama being a so called "socialist." Guess what, it doesn't have anymore truth do it then their other smears like that Obama "pals around with terrorists."

It's important to realize that the entire basis of this "socialist" smear is that Obama want's to allow the Bush tax cuts for the very rich to expire. The very same tax cuts that McCain voted against in 2001 and...

FACT CHECK: McCain misreads 2001 Obama interview

2010-06-12T02:14:16Z

FACT CHECK: McCain, pressing tax case against Obama, stretches rivals remarks from 2001

Republican John McCain is misreading seven-year-old comments by rival Barack Obama about "redistributive change" to argue that the Democrat's tax policy is built on "taking your money and giving it to someone else."

The McCain campaign and the candidate himself ar...

Palin derides Obama in tour of three Va. cities

2010-04-16T12:40:49Z

Gov. Sarah Palin dashed to rallies in three Virginia cities yesterday, deriding Sen. Barack Obama as "Barack the wealth-spreader."

Eight days before the presidential election, Sen. John McCain's running mate appeared before enthusiastic crowds in

Gizzi on Politics

2010-06-25T22:36:47Z

Heading West During Bail-out Build-up

Anaheim, Calif. - Last weekend, I was keeping abreast of the fast-breaking developments in Congress with the proposed $700 billion financial bailout package, but I was doing so from across the country at the Anaheim Marriott where California Republicans were holding the second of their...

McCain Vs. Obama: Economics

2010-10-21T09:43:42Z

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With debt mounting, new president to face tough choices

2010-10-13T13:58:06Z

The next US president will inherit a mountain of debt from the latest government bailouts, making it difficult to implement new programs promised during the campaign, analysts say.

The government closed its books on the 2008 fiscal year September 30 with a record deficit of 455 billion dollars, and many private analysts say the current fiscal year in which Barack Obama ...

FACT CHECK: McCain persists in exaggerations

2010-04-16T12:42:01Z

FACT CHECK: McCain stump speech continues to misrepresent Obama positions on taxes and health

A week from the presidential election, Republican John McCain is persisting in exaggerating and misrepresenting rival Barack Obama's tax and health-care plans.

In his latest campaign stump speech, McCain portrays himself as a time-tested warrior who will fig...

McCain attacks 'dangerous' Obama on economy

2010-06-25T22:37:59Z

John McCain launched the final week of his election campaign Monday with a searing attack on Barack Obama, claiming his rival's economic policies would lead to a "deeper more painful recession."

After a meeting with economic advisors and business leaders, Republican candidate McCain set out his plans to kick-start the economy by insisting Obama was planning sweeping tax inc...

Obama bids to close the deal with voters

2010-04-16T12:42:25Z

Barack Obama was set Monday to present his "closing argument" to voters as the Democrat's epic White House duel with beleaguered Republican John McCain entered its final full week.

With just eight days to go until polling, the pair were to hold rallies in the rust-belt states of White House, Democrat Barack Obama hopes to win over middle-class America with his economic plan, while John McCain charts a traditional Republican course of lowering taxes, even for the wealthy.

Earlier in the year, with several months to go before the US election November 4, neither c...

Obama slams McCain on return to White House trail

2010-04-16T12:43:24Z

Barack Obama mocked John McCain as an acolyte of unpopular President George W. Bush Saturday as the White House foes waged close combat in western states which are key stepping stones to the presidency.

Just 10 days from election day, Senator McCain mean...

McCain the socialist?

2010-04-16T12:43:48Z

Republican nominee once opposed tax cuts because they’d — gasp — benefit the rich

“I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief.”

Sen. John McCain,

in 2001 on his opposition to Bush’s tax cuts

If there was one thing John McCain had going for him entering this...

Obama to return to stump as McCain blasts Democrats

2010-04-16T12:44:00Z

Democrat Barack Obama will resume active campaigning Saturday after taking time off to visit his ailing grandmother as his Republican rival John McCain charged that he had no other solution to the nation's economic woes but to "tax and spend."

Obama was due to hit the road again in the western battleground states of Nevada and

US Russia Nuclear

2010-12-21T13:31:56Z

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., leaves the Senate floor after the cloture vote on the New START Treaty on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Gays in Military

2010-12-18T09:01:23Z

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, and Sen. John McCain, R-ARiz., walk near the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, during a rare Saturday session to finish the year's legislative business. Senators planned a procedural vote Satu...

Tax Cuts

2010-12-16T15:01:52Z

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., talks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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CORRECTION Gays in Military

2010-12-02T13:02:06Z

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about the President Bush, center, meets with congressional leaders, including Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, in the