House Republican Conference Radio Row: Republicans Want Heath Care Reform, Not Higher Taxes, Says Texas Rep.

Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) says that Republicans want to reform health care without raising taxes or increasing the deficit. (0:19)
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McConnell Urges Reducing Costs Of Health Care, Decries Raising Taxes

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says he doesn't think Congress should raise taxes on anybody, but Congress should try to reduce the cost of health care. (0:26)
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Sanders Discusses Long Term Needs Of Seniors

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) talks about how an accurate consumer product index needs to be implemented to reflect the spending habits of senior citizens in order to fairly adjust social security policy. (0:18)
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Sanders Says Seniors Spend "Disproportionate Amount" on Healthcare

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) discusses seniors' spending habits at a conference on Capitol Hill held in order to garner support for a bill that would give seniors a one-time payment of $250 in 2010. (0:29)
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Expert: Tea Parties, Another Republican Deception

Tom McMahon the acting executive Director of Americans United for Change, states his belief as to why the tea parties are occurring. McMahon attributes these protests to special interests who are not protesting tax policy, but rather Obama himself and the progressive change that he stands for. (1:02)

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What would Reagan do?

By Michael Ruhl, University of New Mexico – Talk Radio News Service

Congressman Ted Poe (R-Texas) spoke with Michael Ruhl at the House Republican Conference Radio Row concerning what kind of budget Ronald Reagan would put together in this economy. He emphasized the importance of the Government staying out of the private sector, the limited role of small government, and the need for limited taxation.

Poe called the President Obama's budget an abomination, but said that the Republicans may themselves be spending too much in their budget.

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"Americans can't love losing freedom"

By Michael Ruhl, University of New Mexico – Talk Radio News Service

At the House Republican Conference Radio Row, Congressman Todd Akin (R-MO) spoke with Michael Ruhl about President Obama's budget, and how it takes freedom away from American citizens through over regulation and over taxation. He said that it shackles the country in "the gold chains of the welfare state". Akin said that the Obama administration wants to pass on debt to future generations, which he said would make ours the opposite of the greatest generation.

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What exactly is Obama's tax plan?

Senior McCain Policy Advisor Doug Holtz-Eakin says that it's hard to keep track of Sen. Obama's tax plan since he keeps changing it. (1:01)
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The McCain campaign is worried about Social Security solvency under Obama's tax policy

The McCain-Palin campaign's Senior Policy Adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin explains why he thinks the Obama-Biden campaign’s tax plan will have a downward affect on Social Security solvency.
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Former Senator of Indiana Dan Coats supports McCain's tax plan

Former U.S. Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.) says Obama and McCain are "miles apart" on the issue of taxes, and believes Obama's plan goes against what most economist would recommend.
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Obama's commitment to lowering taxes called into question

The McCain Campaign fired back against Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a teleconference to discuss Obama's shift on taxes, attacks from the Illinois senator on McCain's position on taxes and wavering support for important financial issues (28:23).
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Obama campaign dispells myths created by McCain

The Obama Campaign held a teleconference today outlining the senator's tax plan. Speakers stated that families making less than $250,000 a year could expect to see their taxes drop, while those making more than that would see increases. Obama would also reduce the capital gains and dividends taxes. Overall, the US would be taking in less revenue then it has in recent years. Speakers also dispelled myths created by the McCain campaign, which claim that a Democratic tax plan would cause a recession (34:09)
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Selling US highways brings money to debt-stricken governments

JayEtta Hecker, Director of physical infrastructure issues at the Government Accountability Office, says that the sale of US highways and bridges for periods of time to private enterprises brings necessary money to cash-strapped governments. However, when embarking upon these public-private partnerships, she warns that we must be wary of the resulting changes in toll prices for consumers (:35).
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Immigrants: All for one and one for all

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) spoke today at the League of United Latin American Citizens about the founding of LULAC. He said that American’s have a fundamental belief that American’s rise and fall together, so they need to work together in orders to succeed. (0:36)
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"This country's economy is sick!"

At a press conference on making the American dream more affordable, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), says that the Republican minority won't allow them "to make progress." He says that the situation is like the Republicans pushing hard on the brakes of a tandem bicycle while the Democrats are trying to pedal forward. But, he adds that the Democrats will continue to "push." (1:00)
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Poor U.S. infrastructure threatens "superpower" status

Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, says that "things have got to start changing in Washington" in order for the U.S. to remain "the world's economic superpower" at a Senate hearing on the condition of the nation's infrastructure. (0:43)
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Tax cut opponents ignoring details

Vice President Dick Cheney says that an overnight income tax rate increase would have the worst effect on Americans in the lowest tax bracket and that opponents of President Bush’s tax cuts lack the willingness to address harmful details. (0:57)
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An economic reorganization is necessary to stop food crisis

Danny Glover discusses the need for governments to reorganize the economic marketplace to allow farmers to more easily create food for families. (0:55)
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Clinton Campaign says gas tax holiday wouldn't increase demand

In a conference call with reporters, Clinton Chief Strategist Geoff Garin says that the suspension of the gas tax would not cause an increase in demand. He says that people aren't going joyriding and would not do so. Most gas consumption, he says, is due to people driving to work and doing other necessary trips, so there would not be an increase. (0:59)
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Bush says tax relief should be made permanent

While speaking to the America’s Small Business Summit President George W. Bush says that the “last thing small business owners need” is higher taxes. He says that he believes there should be certainty in the tax codes and that Congress should make “the tax relief we passed permanent.” (0:54)
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