All Posts Tagged With: "Mitch McConnell"
McConnell Considered Attacking Mental Health of Judd
Mitch McConnell the Senate Minority Leader and Kentucky Republican considered attacking the mental health of potential opponent actress and Democrat Ashley Judd. A secret tape of a campaign strategy meeting contains McConnell saying the current time is the Whac-a-Mole time, which he said means if anyone sticks their head out, do them in. McConnell aides [...]
Obama Removes Parts of Health Care Law
The Obama administration announced that it would remove a provision in the health care law because it is too expensive and would not work in the long run. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of health and human services, said that the premiums from the long-term care insurance program would be too high that only a few healthy [...]
US Congress Approves Debt Ceiling Deal Ahead of Deadline
President Barack Obama and the Congressional leaders announced late Sunday that they have agreed on a deal that would cut trillions of dollars in government spending as well as increase its debt limit. The leaders would present the terms of their deal on Monday and they hope that it would be enacted before the August [...]
Mitch McConnell can Make or Break Debt Ceiling Deal
Analysts say that a last minute debt limit deal will depend on Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. For several weeks he has been discussing with Vice President Joe Biden, with whom he made a deal last December to extend the Bush-era tax cuts. Senator McConnell also had a meeting with President Barack Obama last Saturday [...]
Republicans Divided over Debt Limit Deal
It looks like the Republicans are not that united after all. They crumbled under pressure of the deadline to increase the government’s credit limit. A meeting in the White House ended with no concrete results as the nation nears another economic disaster. Moody’s Investors Services last Wednesday said that it would review the United States [...]
Medicare, Taxes Among Items in Obama’s Debt Plan
President Obama focused on four items in his speech today on his plan to reduce the federal debt: lower domestic spending, less defense spending, get rid of excess spending in Medicare and Medicaid and eliminate tax breaks that help the rich. The most controversial are expected to be Medicare and taxes and some liberal groups [...]
Government Shutdown Feared Because of Budget Fight
Senate Democrats criticized the Republicans for their threat of a government shutdown if their proposed budget cut is not approved. Both parties are adamant about their stand over budget deficit and federal spending. Last Saturday, the House of Representatives voted to limit federal government spending by at least $61 billion. This measure will likely be [...]
Democrats Looking Forward to Changes Regarding Senate Core Procedures
It is obvious by now that the Democrats are frustrated by routine filibusters and buzz kills that are flying in from all over. Seeing to the procedural blockades and with nothing better to do, the Democratic parties are urging their leaders to negotiate with Republicans to change the rules regarding the Senate’s core principles. Speaking [...]
9-11 Health Bill Made its Way through the Congress
Recently Jon Stewart, the famous comedian, took a few jabs at the political parties for being a little lame towards the Health Bill issue for 9-11 firefighters. According to government reports, the affected parties during the post 9/11 incidents were supposed to be entitled to health care packages. However, the Senate Republicans and a couple [...]
Mitch McConnell’s Direct Opposition to Congressional Earmarkin
Just a few days ago, followed by the post-election frenzy, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell said, “I have thought about these things long and hard over the past few weeks. I’ve talked with my members. I’ve listened to them. Above all, I have listened to my constituents. And what I’ve concluded is that on the issue [...]
As the shareholders in Germany opposes the re-election of Mr Flint as Chairman and Mr Gulliver CEO of HSBC Holdings ...
Since Obama seems to never know anything about any issue at any given time on any given subject from any ...
a one year high of $63.82? On May 15th?
What a nonsense, the shares were at $77.11!