House GOP Won't Push for Shutdown... Yet
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Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy confirms the GOP is prepared to approve another continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown. "Republicans will be prepared in the House to do another two-, three- or four-week CR," says McCarthy. "But each time, we're going to go at it... Read more
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- -: House GOP Won't Push for Shutdown... Yet
March 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy confirms the GOP is prepared to approve another continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown. "Republicans will be prepared in the House to do another two-, three- or four-week CR," says...
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- -: Mitch Daniels: American Debt Is 'The New Red Menace'
June 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/02/27/Uncommon_Knowledge_Mitch_Daniels Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels expands on his cautionary statement regarding the United States' national debt to the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2011. "This is not a philosophical argument," he...
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- -: CBO Director: Gov't Debt Defaults a 'Dangerous Gamble'
June 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Douglas Elmendorf, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, argues there is great uncertainty around government default, including potential views of debt holders. Elmendorf calls any government default a "dangerous gamble." ...
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- -: CBO Director: Past Budgets Can't Guide Country's Future
June 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast CBO chief Douglas Elmendorf argues that America can't keep revenues at their historical share of GDP, retain full entitlement programs for the elderly and keep the rest of the budget intact. Something's got to give. ----- Congr...
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- -: CBO Director: How Likely Is a US Debt Default?
June 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Congressional Budget Office head Douglas Elmendorf says the US "can't afford to take the views of its creditors lightly" as it considers the "dangerous gamble" of government default. "Leaders of both political parties have made c...
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- -: Washington as a 'Giant, Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone'
July 7, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/chq_2011_video_sampler John Hamre, president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, criticizes the current state of politics in Washington, claiming that members of both parties are pandering to their constituents for reelectio...
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- -: Tea Party Leaders Cite Member "Concern" about Speaker Boehner's Leadership
July 27, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/07/27/Monitor_Breakfast_Mark_Meckler_and_Jenny_Beth_Martin Tea Party Patriots co-founders Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin cite internal polls showing a vast majority of their members are dissatisfied with the performance of GOP leadership in the U.S. Hou...
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- -: Trumka: Obama Made "Strategic Mistake" Equating Debt Ceiling Crisis with Jobs
August 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Saying "we do not have a short-term deficit crisis. It does not exist. We have a short-term jobs crisis," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said President Obama "played on Republican ground" to his detriment during the debt ceiling debate...
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- -: President Obama on Deficit Reduction Talks
July 7, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)President Obama describes talks on deficit reform as productive in a statement to the press following a meeting with Congressional leaders at the White House. July 7, 2011.
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- -: West Wing Week: 8/5/11 or "Disaster Averted"
August 5, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, President Obama announced a bi-partisan compromise to reduce the deficit and avoid default, announced a historic fuel efficiency standard that will save American families money, welco...
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