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WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama called on Congress Monday to enact new taxes on the wealthy, restructure the tax code and approve short-term spending measures as part of an election-year budget plan aimed at boosting job growth and helping the middle class.
Obama Seeks New Taxes on Rich Carol E. Lee 2012
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In the election-year budget proposal, the White House also called for higher taxes on the oil and gas industry, fund managers and estates while allowing Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy to expire.
Budget Seeks to Boost Tax Revenue Siobhan Hughes 2012
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Jimmy Carter owned the 1980 election-year economy.
Obama's Cloud Economy Daniel Henninger 2011
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He also can rest assured that President Obama's election-year proposal to control tuition growth represents coalition building at its finest and has little to do with actual funding plans or economics.
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George H.W. Bush owned the 1992 election-year economy.
Obama's Cloud Economy Daniel Henninger 2011
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Instead of forcing one politico to slink off into the shadows, the Administration has let this issue fester into what come become an unneeded election-year scandal.
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GOP Central House Republicans' election-year message became clearer this week at a closed-door session for GOP lawmakers in Baltimore.
Hatch Job, Jersey War, How GOP Plans to Win Naftali Bendavid 2012
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They criticized Mr. Obama's speech as an election-year blueprint.
Obama Makes Populist Pitch Carol E. Lee 2012
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Peabody Energy directly spent over $8.4 million lobbying Congress in 2008, up 3,200 percent from 2004, as legislation to limit coal pollution became an election-year issue.
Wonk Room » Among Plutocrats Fueled By Coal, Climate Bill Sends Chill 2009
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SEOUL—South Korea's state auditor said a senior foreign-ministry official deliberately overstated the size of a Cameroon diamond mine as part of a stock-manipulation scam that has become a major election-year embarrassment for President Lee Myung-bak's government.
Diamond Scandal Spreads in Seoul In-Soo Nam 2012
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