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Drive toward US fiscal cliff takes election detour
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[Reuters] - By Donna Smith and Richard Cowan | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If ever there was a case for putting off until tomorrow what could be done today, the deeply divided US Congress and President Barack Obama have found one in the "fiscal cliff" decisions they
US piles pressure on Europe for fiscal, financial union
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[Reuters] - I'm doing my own briefings. We're on the phone non-stop," he said. (Additional reporting by Rachelle Younglai, Jason Lange, Matt Spetalnick and Donna Smith in Washington, and Chrystia Freeland in Riga, Latvia; Editing by Tim Ahmann, Gary Crosse)
US Senate Republicans block equal pay measure
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[Reuters] - By Donna Smith | WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - US Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked an election-year bid by Democrats for legislation they said would discourage employers from paying women less than they pay men for the same job.
Senate 'Fire Department' seeks to ease partisan rancor
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[Reuters] - By Donna Smith | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Call it a humble effort to douse the flames of dysfunction and paralysis in the US Senate. Frustrated by an inability to get much done amid the partisan rancor in what has been called "the world's greatest
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