The President's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget proposal is delivered to the Senate Budget Committee
The President's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget proposal is delivered to the Senate Budget Committee and distributed to staff, in Washington DC on April 10, 2013. UPI/Molly Riley
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The White House on Thursday announced two business-friendly initiatives to coordinate U.S. manufacturing and manage federal data helpful to job creation.
European Union diplomats will get a pay increase next year, but it will come at the expense of reduced security, officials say.
The U.S. Director of National Intelligence is warning that sequestration budget cuts will affect acquisition programs and degrade operations.
Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles say they are coming out with a new plan to bring the U.S. deficit under control.
Congressional Republicans and Democrats began voicing their displeasure over U.S. President Obama's 2014 budget plan, either saying it didn't go far enough to cut spending, or it raised taxes or it intruded too much on entitlements or left seniors in a lurch.
The budget U.S. President Barack Obama proposed this week is "a blank check for more spending and more debt," a Republican member of Congress said Saturday.
The Illinois House approved and sent to the Senate a measure that would ask the voters whether the office of lieutenant governor should be eliminated.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Thursday said a grand bargain on the budget is close but any plan must raise more tax revenue.
A U.S. federal budget for 2014 suggests the White House is out of step with domestic oil and natural gas developments, the energy industry said.
President Obama's 2014 budget expanded mental-health services by $130 million to help U.S. teachers recognize signs of mental illness in youth.
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Our economy is poised for progress, as long as Washington doesn't get in the way
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all-told, we will have surpassed the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction that independent economists believe we need to stabilize our finances, but it does so in a balanced and responsible way -- a way that most Americans prefer
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billions of dollars in taxpayer handouts to the dirty energy industry of the past, which it doesn't need, and harms our health and planet
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That's why we're proposing a major new investment to help ensure that students and young adults get the treatment they need. We'll be training 5,000 mental health professionals to join our Behavioral Health Workforce. We'll be supporting Project AWARE, an effort to train teachers and other adults to detect and respond to signs of mental illness in young people. And we'll be providing support for innovative, state-based strategies that help reach young people with mental health or substance abuse issues
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The significant new investments this budget contains for the NIH reflect our commitment to furthering the biomedical research that will help create good new jobs and advance the cause of medical science
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