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        "uri": "/2013/12/19/senate-leader-vows-vote-on-jobless-benefits/",
        "title": "Senate leader vows vote on jobless benefits",
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        "prettyDate": "December 19, 2013",
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        "summary": "More than 1 million people are set to be abruptly cut off of federal unemployment benefits averaging less than $300 a week nationwide just three days after Christmas.",
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        "uri": "/2013/12/18/bipartisan-budget-deal-nears-passage/",
        "title": "Bipartisan budget deal nears passage",
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        "prettyDate": "December 18, 2013",
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        "summary": "The Senate is on track to clear the bill for President Barack Obama's signature after a 67-33 vote Tuesday in which it easily hurdled a filibuster threshold.",
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        "uri": "/2013/12/17/budget-bill-moves-toward-final-passage-in-senate/",
        "title": "Budget bill moves toward final passage in Senate",
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        "prettyDate": "December 17, 2013",
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        "summary": "A bipartisan budget bill that would ease some but not all of painful budget cuts that would otherwise slam the Pentagon and domestic agencies has passed a pivotal test in the Senate.",
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        "uri": "/2013/12/13/house-approves-budget-deal-2/",
        "title": "House approves budget deal",
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        "prettyDate": "December 13, 2013",
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        "summary": "A bipartisan budget pact is in the hands of the Senate, where it will encounter stronger but probably futile resistance from Republicans.",
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        "uri": "/2013/12/12/budget-peace-after-boehner-raps-gop-right/",
        "title": "Budget peace after Boehner raps GOP right",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "December 12, 2013",
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        "summary": "The legislation is designed to eliminate the threat of future government shutdowns like the one that took place in October and erase $65 billion in across-the-board spending cuts this year and next.",
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        "uri": "/2013/12/11/bipartisan-budget-deal-struck/",
        "title": "Bipartisan budget deal struck",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "December 11, 2013",
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        "summary": "The agreement, among other things, seeks to restore $63 billion in automatic spending cuts affecting programs ranging from parks to the Pentagon.",
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        "uri": "/2013/11/20/democrats-launch-effort-to-renew-jobless-benefits/",
        "title": "Democrats launch effort to renew jobless benefits",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "November 20, 2013",
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        "summary": "Benefits for 1.3 million long-term unemployed people expire just three days after Christmas. Lawmakers say another 1.9 million people would miss out on the benefits in the first six months of next year.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/11/11/automatic-spending-cuts-would-bite-more-next-year/",
        "title": "Automatic spending cuts would bite more next year",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "November 11, 2013",
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        "summary": "The first year of automatic, across-the-board budget cuts didn't live up to the dire predictions from the Obama administration and others who warned of sweeping furloughs and big disruptions of government services. The second round just might.",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/25/no-one-expects-major-budget-deal/",
        "title": "No one expects major budget deal",
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        "prettyDate": "October 25, 2013",
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        "summary": "On this, GOP budget guru Rep. Paul Ryan and top Senate Democrat Harry Reid can agree: There wont be a grand bargain on the budget.",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/17/government-reopens/",
        "title": "Government reopens",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "October 17, 2013",
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        "summary": "Even as the government reopened its doors, congressional budget negotiators met Thursday and acknowledged that their search for agreements on deficit reduction and spending cuts has no assurance of achieving their goals.",
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