There are no signs of compromise in Washington before forced spending cuts take effect. Charles Blow, Gloria Borger and Ross Douthat discuss.
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Pain from forced spending cuts is a week away and lawmakers are preparing their aides for the fallout that could hit them like other government workers.
"We've actually budgeted with a 10% cut in mind," Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Illinois, told CNN last week.
Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Florida, reorganized his office in December.
"We had to let people go then because we were anticipating at least a 16% cut," he said.
But members of Congress, the very people who voted to put the automatic spending cuts in place, won't see any change to their annual salary of $174,000.
Why?
Because Congress can only change its pay by passing a law to do so.
Pres. Obama and Republican Congressional leaders must reach an agreement by March 1 to avoid cuts. Wolf Blitzer is Keeping Them Honest.
Sen. Rand Paul, who voted against the forced spending cuts, talks about the March 1 deadline and the consequences.
Keeping Them Honest, Anderson Cooper looks at how border security could complicate immigration reform.
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Republicans look to rebrand and attract Latino voters with a possible new bipartisan immigration reform bill. CNN's chief political analyst Gloria Borger, Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher, and Republican consultant Margaret Hoover discuss.
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Post by: Filed under: Congress • Cornell Belcher • Gloria Borger • Immigration • Raw Politics • Republicans • Senator John McCain |
Sen. McCain and others are now willing to compromise on illegal immigration reform to court more Latino voters. Anderson Cooper is Keeping them Honest.
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Today Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California, introduced a bill that would ban some military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
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Fran Townsend and Jake Tapper discuss Secretary Clinton's testimony before Congress on the Benghazi attack.
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Rep. Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri, who won easy re-election to her 10th term in Congress in November, is expected to officially leave office soon to take over a job as head of one of Washington’s largest and most influential trade associations.
According to public records, she is one of five outgoing members of the House of Representatives—four Republicans and one Democrat—to take lobbying jobs as the new Congress begins its work.
A public interest group in Washington says Emerson’s case is the personification of the revolving door in the nation’s capital. And a close look at her career helps explain why.
She is a Washington native who in 1975 married a lobbyist named Bill Emerson. He went on to become a Republican congressman from Missouri’s 8th Congressional District, which encompasses much of the southeastern part of the state, with Cape Girardeau as its largest population center. During Bill Emerson’s term in office, his wife became a lobbyist, first for the restaurant industry and later as a spokeswoman for the American Insurance Industry Association.
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