Brian Beutler is TPM's senior congressional reporter. Since 2009, he's led coverage of health care reform, Wall Street reform, taxes, the GOP budget, the government shutdown fight and the debt limit fight. He can be reached at brian(at)talkingpointsmemo.com.
Wonder if Greg Walden realized that when he called President Obama’s budget a “shocking attack on seniors” for including Chained CPI he was implicating nearly half of all House Republicans, including four of his NRCC deputies.
NRCC Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) has been taking fire from Democrats and many conservatives for cynically condemning President Obama’s budget…
Updated at 10:20 a.m. ET President Obama’s budget calls for preventing wealthy people — such as, cough, Mitt Romney —…
Just like that, Chained CPI morphs from a thing President Obama is willing to offer Republicans into a thing Republicans…
Remember those warnings about how instead of welcoming President Obama’s adoption of Chained CPI, Republicans would continue to deny him…
Max Baucus has given liberals plenty of reason to question his adventures off the reservation (see his votes for the…
Senior White House officials have dismissed Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ efforts to reach a tax reform compromise with his House GOP counterpart absent a commitment to raise new revenue from top earners.
Republicans are sufficiently outraged by the leaked recording of one of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s private re-election strategy sessions…
Mitt Romney’s unfathomably large IRA was a big political liability for him in 2012. Fortunately for other financial titans who…
The biggest surprise in President Obama’s budget for the coming fiscal year was revealed late last week, to the frustration of some of his staunchest allies. Unlike his past budgets, which reflected something close to Obama’s view of ideal policy, his latest will adopt a compromise he offered House Speaker John Boehner last December, including indexing government benefits and tax bracket growth to Chained CPI, which among other things will reduce Social Security cost of living increases.
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