Topic - Paul Ryan

• Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

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• Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

  Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:

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  Democrat-led Senate votes down 4 GOP budgets for 2013

  The Senate on Wednesday rejected every single budget being offered this year, leaving the chamber — and therefore the federal government — without a plan to address Medicare, Social Security and the other major entitlement programs that are driving deficits and debt.

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  MILLER: Shocker Senate budget

  Sen. Harry Reid gave up his budgeting responsibilities once President Obama was elected. For the fourth straight year, the Senate majority leader hasn't bothered with a spending plan, enabling a $5 trillion spree at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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  FEULNER: Budget plan that adds up

  It has been more than three years (1,112 days, to be precise) since the U.S. Senate last passed a budget. The last time Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid fulfilled his legal responsibility, Conan O'Brien was still on NBC, Tea Parties hadn't come together, and the iPad hadn't yet been introduced.

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  House shifts pending budget cuts from defense to entitlements

  Six months after the congressional supercommittee failed to come to a long-term deal on federal spending, House Republicans reignited the debate Thursday by passing legislation that would stop looming defense cuts and instead cut hundreds of billions of dollars from entitlement programs.

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  Inside the Beltway: Romney's graduates

  Forget shabby politics, an evolving White House and the "Celebrity-in-Chief" for a moment: It's God, country and education at Liberty University on Saturday morning, when 14,012 students receive degrees from a school administration unapologetic about its religion-based curriculum with Mitt Romney delivering the commencement address.

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  Campaign donors squeezed at end of month

  It was the end of the month and the wheedling, pleading, demanding and outright begging were at full throttle as political parties, racing the latest fundraising deadline, tried to shake every nickel out of potential donors' pockets.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Georgetown hypocritical in protest of Ryan

  Are the Rev. Thomas J. Reese and 90 Georgetown University faculty members really taking Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, to task for supposedly hurting the poor and not being Catholic enough in his budget proposal ("Cross-referencing," Inside the Beltway: Web, Tuesday)?

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  House pulls its budget punches

  Republicans controlling the House are opting for the politically safe route as they follow up their tightfisted, tea party-driven budget with less controversial steps to cut spending.

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  Inside the Beltway: Reading Romney

  Forget about "inevitable." Is Mitt Romney a fierce conservative or an agile, middle-of-the-road guy? As the Republican hopeful barrels down the campaign trail and toward a spate of fundraisers in New York and New Jersey, strategically minded Democrats wonder how to categorize President Obama's rival-in-chief.

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  CURL: Was Newt Gingrich's campaign the worst in history?

  The Newt's presidential campaign has got to be one of the worst ever run in American history. So let's roll it all up in a ball, shall we, and take a look.

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  GREEN: The Democratic budget bottleneck

  President Obama was in Ohio Wednesday to raise cash and enlarge the cloud of smoke he's blowing to distract from his record. In a speech on the economy, he tried to discredit the House-passed Republican budget authored by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the Budget Committee.

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  GOP presses full return of health overpayment

  Looking to draw more blood from President Obama's health care law, House Republicans voted Wednesday to require Americans who are set to collect too much subsidy money in the insurance exchanges to pay back every dime - a move that could kick thousands of American out of the exchanges.

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  MILLER: Cooking the books

  America's $15.7 trillion national debt continues to grow at an alarming rate. Though most economists agree we're on an unsustainable path, the president and his allies in the Democratic Senate have done nothing about it. They hope to return to their old ways of borrowing trillions without making dollar-for-dollar cuts. Congressional Republicans are trying to impose a bit of discipline.

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