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        "uri": "/2013/03/21/government-funding-bill-sails-through-house/",
        "title": "Government funding bill sails through House",
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        "prettyDate": "March 21, 2013",
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        "summary": "The House has passed a huge stopgap spending bill to keep the government open through the end of September, sidestepping any threat of a government shutdown.",
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        "uri": "/2013/03/21/house-on-track-to-pass-budget-plan-with-deep-cuts/",
        "title": "House on track to pass budget plan with deep cuts",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 21, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "A familiar budget plan to sharply cut safety-net programs for the poor and clamp down on domestic agencies performing the nuts-and-bolts programs of the government is cruising to passage in the tea party-flavored House.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/03/20/top-senate-democrat-proposes-social-security-panel/",
        "title": "Top Senate Democrat proposes Social Security panel",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 20, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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        "summary": "The Senate's No. 2 Democrat said Wednesday that he's preparing a plan to create a commission to study Social Security's fiscal problems and send a proposed solution to Congress for guaranteed votes in both House and Senate.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/03/20/senate-approves-huge-2013-spending-bill/",
        "title": "Senate approves huge 2013 spending bill",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 20, 2013",
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        "summary": "The Senate has passed a huge spending bill to keep the government open through the end of September, preventing a government shutdown but leaving in place automatic spending cuts that will mean job furloughs for hundreds of thousands of federal workers.",
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        "uri": "/2013/03/14/obama-gop-in-great-conversation-on-the-hill/",
        "title": "Obama, GOP in ‘great conversation’ on the Hill",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 14, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "6 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "President Barack Obama said he had \"a great conversation\" with Senate Republicans on Thursday, the third stop in his ice-breaking tour of the Capitol this week on the budget and other topics.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/03/12/gop-budget-targets-obamacare-medicaid/",
        "title": "GOP budget targets Obamacare, Medicaid",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 12, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "6 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "House Republicans unveiled their latest budget outline on Tuesday, sticking to their plans to try to repeal so-called Obamacare, cut domestic programs ranging from Medicaid to college grants and require future Medicare patients to bear more of the program's cost.",
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        "uri": "/2013/03/06/house-votes-to-prevent-march-27-federal-shutdown/",
        "title": "House votes to prevent March 27 federal shutdown",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor, David Espo",
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        "prettyDate": "March 06, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "6 minute",
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        "authors": [
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            "name": "Andrew Taylor, David Espo"
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        "summary": "Republicans pushed legislation through the House on Wednesday to prevent a government shutdown this month while easing the short-term impact of $85 billion in spending cuts at the same time previewing a longer-term plan to erase federal deficits without raising taxes.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/03/05/gop-seeks-to-smooth-roughest-cuts-avert-shutdown/",
        "title": "GOP seeks to smooth roughest cuts, avert shutdown",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 05, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        "summary": "Republicans controlling the House are moving to take the roughest edges off across-the-board spending cuts that are just starting to take effect.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/03/04/republicans-unveil-government-funding-measure/",
        "title": "Republicans unveil government funding measure",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 04, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "summary": "Republicans controlling the House moved Monday to give the Pentagon more money for military readiness while easing the pain felt by such agencies as the FBI and the Border Patrol from the across-the-board spending cuts that are just starting to take effect.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/02/28/senate-dems-gop-plan-votes-on-rival-cuts/",
        "title": "Senate Dems, GOP plan votes on rival cuts",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "February 28, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "summary": "Across-the-board spending cuts all but certain, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are staging a politically charged showdown designed to avoid public blame for any resulting inconvenience or disruption in government services.",
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