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By a vote of 221-207, Republicans passed Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget for the third consecutive year. The House Republican budget slashes funding for poverty programs and dramatically transforms Medicare for seniors, all while it grants tax breaks to special interests like Big Oil

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Vice-President Joe Biden and vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan covered a lot of ground in last night’s debate. But one program that didn’t come up is Medicaid, the joint state-federal program that provides health coverage to 31 million children, 1.9 million seniors, and millions of other disabled and low-income Americans.

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Yesterday, the Huffington Post unearthed video from last year of Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan echoing Mitt Romney’s now-infamous comment about the “47 percent.’ Ryan raised the specter of an America going over the moral tipping point to become a country “of takers, not makers,” then declared that 30 percent of Americans don’t believe in the American dream: Today, 70 percent of Americans get more benefits from the federal government in dollar value than they pay back in taxes. So you could argue that we’re already past that [moral] tipping point. The good news is survey after survey, poll after poll, still shows that we are a center-right 70-30 country

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For much of the general election, the Romney campaign has avoided any discussion of specifics, especially when it comes to the tax plan that he and Paul Ryan have put forward. On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace gave Ryan an opportunity to finally talk about the details of his plan to a national audience, how much it will cost and how the Romney administration would pay for it. Instead, Ryan said he didn’t have time to get into the nuts and bolts of the proposal: WALLACE: So how much would it cost

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Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, the author of the Republican Party’s 2011 plan to phase out Medicare , begged a room of big dollar GOP donors on Monday to ensure that Tea Party candidate Richard Mourdock (R-IN) wins his U.S.

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Mitt Romney, campaigning in Virginia today, hammered President Obama for supporting cuts in defense spending .

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By Ruth Conniff, August 30, 2012 To answer Ryan, the Democrats will have to do more than extend unemployment insurance, coddle the banks and multinational corporations, and hope for better days. read more

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Republican Congressman Sean Duffy MSNBC host Krystal Ball raked Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) over the coals Wednesday afternoon for resorting to an incoherent and disingenuous right-wing talking point on Medicare.

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Wisconsin Lt. Gov.

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