Key point: “Republicans have already violated some of the vows they made in taking stewardship of the House. Their pledge to cut $100 billion from the budget in one year won’t be kept.  PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP drops some out of the gate By ANDREW TAYLOR and CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_congress_gop_promises;_ylt=AjP8RuC1sVK5xIslyF2Dr.Gs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNvbXR2ajluBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwMTA2L3VzX2NvbmdyZXNzX2dvcF9wcm9taXNlcwRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzIEcG9zAzYEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA3Byb21pc2VzcHJvbQ– WASHINGTON – Republicans have already violated…

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Washington, DC—Nevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office released an updated score on the cost of repealing the Affordable Care Act. A summary of the key findings from CBO is below: ?? “After all their talk about the deficit, Republicans didn’t wait one day before pushing an extreme agenda that…

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Key point: Democrats are accusing newly empowered House Republicans of exempting more than $1 trillion in proposed tax cuts and higher spending over the next 10 years from a promise to cut federal deficits… Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan assailed House Republicans for scrapping a…

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Washington, DC—It didn’t take Republicans even a day to throw their campaign promises out the window, passing new budgeting rules that hide the true cost of their extreme agenda and pile more than $1 trillion onto the deficit. The Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee released a report this morning detailing the cumulative cost that…

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