2012ers hit the road
(CNN) - As the presidential waiting game continues, potential 2012 GOP candidates are off on various travels this week, mostly in presidential contest states.
On Monday, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and Texas Rep. Ron Paul will deliver speeches in Iowa, she to social conservatives in Pella and he to a Family Leader group in Sioux Center.
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Palin gives Trump some verbal support on birther issue
(CNN) - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin supported Donald Trump's decision to hire investigators to examine President Barack Obama's birth, but stopped short of embracing the birther wave.
"I appreciate that the Donald wants to spend his resources in getting to the bottom of something that so interests him and many Americans. You know, more power to him," Palin said Saturday on Fox News. "He's not just throwing stones from the sidelines, he's digging in, he's paying for researchers."
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Schumer: Details of budget cuts arriving Monday
Washington (CNN) - Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer revealed Sunday that about half the $38.5 billion in cuts agreed upon in last week’s budget negotiations came from mandatory spending areas like agriculture and highway funding.
The senior New York senator said reductions in the spending programs, known in appropriations parlance as "changes in mandatory spending" or CHIMPS, brought down spending while allowing other programs like Head Start to continue.
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Candy Crowley's post-show analysis
Sunday show highlights:
David Plouffe, White House Senior Adviser, on CNN's "State of the Union"
"Later this week the president is going to speak about his approach to long-term deficit reduction. Is that approach – which is while we reduce the deficit, and we have to do it in a balanced way – can't be all on the backs of seniors and the middle class. We have to be sure we take a balanced approach to this that allows us to win the future.
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Budget battle continues for Rep. Ryan
Washington (CNN) - The battle over the budget came down to the wire in Congress this week, but the fight is far from over for House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan.
Ryan, R-Wisconsin, is the man behind "The Path to Prosperity" – a drastic budget plan that has been criticized by Democrats as barely touching the pockets of the nation's wealthiest citizens or national defense spending, while placing a disproportionate burden on seniors, the middle class, would-be college students and the economically disadvantaged.
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Trump talks birthers, White House adviser predicts his failure
Washington (CNN) - Real estate mogul Donald Trump kept up his birther blasts Sunday, while one White House adviser hoped his stock continues to rise.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Trump called the situation surrounding President Obama’s birth certificate “very strange,” lamenting the negative connotation attached to “birthers.”
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Obama to lay out long-term deficit plan this week
Washington (CNN) - Fresh off last-minute budget negotiations that averted a partial government shutdown, President Barack Obama this week will lay out his plan for long-term deficit reduction demanded by conservatives.
White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe appeared on four Sunday talk shows to announce Obama's intentions and deliver the administration message that further deals like the one reached last Friday night with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, will be necessary as Congress and the administration face more major budget decisions in coming months.
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Republican Rep.: Congress deserves to be 'tarred and feathered’
Washington (CNN) - Fresh off the debate to avoid a government shutdown, Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling and Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin expressed cautious optimism following the resolution, while gearing up politically for the debt ceiling drama.
Hensarling, the chairman of the House Republican Conference, explained two ways to view the budget negotiations.
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Conservative group puts out anti-Obama TV ad
Washington (CNN) - Call it an appetizer, with the main course still to come.
An independent conservative group says it's going up in some battleground states with a television commercial that's critical of President Barack Obama, one of the first of what could be many ads by similar groups on the right.
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Plouffe: Don’t play ‘political chicken’
Washington (CNN) - The president will lay out his plan for long-term deficit reduction Wednesday, White House senior adviser David Plouffe told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley Sunday.
“He's going to lay out his approach very clearly,” Plouffe said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “He's going to be clear about the types of deficit reduction we need in terms of dollar amounts over what period of years.”
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