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        "uri": "/2012/03/28/bipartisan-group-offers-alternative-to-gop-budget/",
        "title": "Bipartisan group offers alternative to GOP budget",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 28, 2012",
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        "summary": "The measure leaves Social Security alone, but it contains a policy calling for raising the retirement age and reducing annual cost-of-living increases.",
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        "uri": "/2012/03/21/house-gop-pushes-tight-budget-plan/",
        "title": "House GOP pushes tight budget plan",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 21, 2012",
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        "summary": "Republicans and Democrats on a key House panel squared off Wednesday over a controversial GOP budget plan to sharply cut federal health care spending and safety-net programs like food stamps as the chief means to wrestle trillion-dollar-plus deficits under control.",
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        "uri": "/2012/03/20/cut-spending-much-more-deeply-house-gop-plan-says/",
        "title": "Cut spending much more deeply, House GOP plan says",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 20, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "7 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "Mixing deep cuts to safety-net programs for the poor with politically risky cost curbs for Medicare, Republicans controlling the House unveiled an election-year budget blueprint Tuesday that paints clear campaign differences with President Barack Obama.",
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        "uri": "/2012/03/20/house-gop-unveils-budget-plan/",
        "title": "House GOP unveils budget plan",
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        "prettyDate": "March 20, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "7 minute",
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        "summary": "Conservative House Republicans on Tuesday set up what appears to be a potential re-run of last year's turbulent domestic policy fight with President Barack Obama, putting forward an election-year budget manifesto that would blend steep social program cuts with reduced tax rates.",
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        "uri": "/2012/03/14/lawmakers-debate-pay-cutoff-for-budget-gridlock/",
        "title": "Lawmakers debate pay cutoff for budget gridlock",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 14, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "summary": "It might be dismissed as an election year gimmick by the big shots who run Capitol Hill, but frustration over Congress' failure to pass a budget since 2009 has given surprising momentum to a bill that would cut off lawmakers' pay if they can't or won't pass a...",
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        "uri": "/2012/03/02/snowe-walks-out-on-senate-gridlock/",
        "title": "Snowe walks out on Senate gridlock",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "March 02, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "summary": "Maine Republican Olympia Snowe says the Senate spends too much time in political battle and not enough on solving problems, and more than a few of her colleagues agree.",
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        "uri": "/2012/02/15/payroll-tax-cut-ironing-out-the-final-details/",
        "title": "Payroll tax cut: Ironing out the final details",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "February 15, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "summary": "Anxious to avoid a bruising election-year fight, negotiators on Capitol Hill worked into Wednesday night ironing out final details of an agreement to extend a cut in the payroll taxes paid by most Americans. The legislation also would renew jobless benefits for millions more.",
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        "uri": "/2012/02/14/negotiators-reach-tentative-payroll-deal/",
        "title": "Negotiators reach tentative payroll deal",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "February 14, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "1 minute",
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        "summary": "House and Senate negotiators have reached tentative agreement on renewing a payroll tax cut that delivers about $20 a week to the average worker. They hope to send the legislation to President Barack Obama as early as this week.",
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        "uri": "/2012/02/14/progress-in-talks-on-payroll-tax-jobless-benefits/",
        "title": "Progress in talks on payroll tax, jobless benefits",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "February 14, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "1 minute",
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        "summary": "Aides to participants in House-Senate talks on renewing President Barack Obama's signature payroll tax cut say negotiators have made significant progress and that an agreement could come as early as Tuesday.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2012/02/14/capitol-hill-weighs-gop-payroll-tax-gambit/",
        "title": "Capitol Hill weighs GOP payroll tax gambit",
        "byline": "Andrew Taylor",
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        "prettyDate": "February 14, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "summary": "House lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to weigh a proposal by GOP leaders to extend the 2-percentage-point cut in the payroll tax through the end of the year and add the roughly $100 billion cost to the nation's $15 trillion-plus debt instead of scrounging around the budget for ways...",
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