President Barack Obama is wading into the swirl of deficit-trimming budget plans, looking to cast himself as a broker in the struggle to tame the federal debt. The White House and congressional Democrats and Republicans are working to sort out what debt-fighting measures they can embrace now and which ones will be left for later, probably after the 2012 presidential and congressional elections. Read the Article>

Mitt Romney's major health care speech on Thursday has a single goal: ending the current fixation on "RomneyCare." Read the Article>

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Fifty Senate Democrats on Thursday sent President Obama a letter commending him for his opposition to Republicans' Medicare overhaul and urging him to stay the course as both parties negotiate an increase in the debt ceiling. Read the Article>

A new round of high-level budget negotiations opened Thursday, shadowed by vanishing expectations that Washington would rally around a broad budget bargain or an overhaul of entitlement programs this year. Read the Article>

A fight over taxes and the scale of spending cuts remain the biggest obstacles to a deficit-cutting plan that White House officials and congressional leaders say is necessary for an agreement to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. Read the Article>

The House voted on Tuesday to strip the health care law of an estimated $1.9 billion in federal money to help states establish insurance exchanges, but the legislation is not expected to go anywhere in the Senate. Read the Article>

Time is running short for the Gang of Six. The Senate group that set out months ago to bridge the partisan divide on long-term spending and produce a plan that transcends politics must elbow its way back into the debate at the very moment Congress is taking on spending in earnest as a vote to raise the debt ceiling looms. Read the Article>

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Judith Feder, one of the nation’s foremost experts on the U.S. health insurance system, discussed the Affordable Care Act and Medicare on April 14 at the Ronald Tutor Campus Center as part of the 2011 USC Schaeffer Center seminar series. Read the Article>