Epstein Secrets

Uje cis ton post February 27, 2013 Ending the permanent crisis By EJ. Dionne Jr. This has to stop. Ever since they took control of the House of Representatives in 2011, Republicans have made journeys to the fiscal brink as commonplace as summertime visits to the beach or the ballpark. The country has been

l that critical." This is astonishing: Government is bad, so all cuts are more or less the same. And you wonder why we have a crisis? House Speaker John Boehner keeps saying that the House has twice voted for ways to replace the sequester. What he doesn't say is that those votes were held in the last Congres

stin Hoffinan's character in "Rain Man," sometimes wrote down the numbers as he spoke them: two hundred and forty-one, the number of Republicans in the House of Representatives last year when he was negotiating with them; 11/6, the date of the election. He had no illusions that 2012 would look like 2008, and pointed to th

ach an agreement: the debt ceiling had to be raised by the end of the summer. The Cantor-Biden talks ended two months later, and Obama and Speaker John Boehner worked until July to reach a "grand bargain" of modest tax hikes, entitlement reforms, and spending cuts. A fourth group, consisting of three Repub

nimous vote, passed legislation Tuesday aimed at protecting human rights in Hong Kong ... The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act now goes to the House of Representatives, which earlier approved its own version of the measure." -- A former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong said Page 16991 EFTA00046502

favor of the short-term spending bill Tuesday -- many fewer than the 76 Republicans who supported the last stop-gap bill." -- Former House speaker John Boehner returned to a Capitol transformed from heated partisanship into a cauldron of constitutional standoff. Paul Kane reports: "Officially there to unve

animous vote, passed legislation Tuesday aimed at protecting human rights in Hong Kong ... The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act now goes to the House of Representatives, which earlier approved its own version of the measure." -- A former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong said he was repeatedly torture

favor of the short-term spending bill Tuesday -- many fewer than the 76 Republicans who supported the last stop-gap bill." -- Former House speaker John Boehner returned to a Capitol transformed from heated partisanship into a cauldron of constitutional standoff. Paul Kane reports: "Officially there to unve