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US House Republicans back away on Medicare overhaul
By Donna Smith and David Morgan
WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans on Thursday backed away from a contentious plan to overhaul Medicare that President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats have turned into a weapon against them for next year's elections.
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Boehner stands by GOP Medicare overhaul plan
By Lisa Mascaro
May 5, 2011, 10:26 a.m.
As congressional negotiators met with Vice President Biden to begin deficit-reduction talks Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner refused to back away from the Republican proposal to privatize Medicare and make other changes to the nation’s health entitlement programs.
Top Republican lawmakers have acknowledged that the party’s proposal to change Medicare for the next generation of seniors is unlikely to gain ground with President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate. But Boehner insisted Thursday that all options remained on the table as negotiations were underway on a budget strategy that could win bipartisan support alongside an increase in the nation’s $14.3-trillion debt limit.
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From Medicare to abortion to rejecting the end to oil company tax breaks -- it's amazing what the Republicans are trying to do while the world is focused on bin Laden.
There are hours of video tape to use in the 2012 election.
The GOP shot themselves in the foot, again
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