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President Barack Obama said Saturday that Republicans in the House are blocking a bill that would prevent a tax increase on the first $250,000 of income earned by all Americans.

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Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who was elected the state’s chief executive as a Republican and then ran unsuccessfully for the U. S. Senate as an independent, announced on Twitter on Friday night that he’s switching to the Democratic Party.

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Debate over the "fiscal cliff" has money pouring into television, print, radio and online ads, picking up where the wall-to-wall election campaign left off.

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A Tennessee lawyer who is the mysterious source of millions of dollars in contributions that were steered to national political candidates doubled his investments before Election Day and funneled an additional $6. 8 million to a prominent Tea Party group.

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Remarkable for its last-minute surge of contributions, the U. S. presidential election witnessed unprecedented sums of cash boosting two men in their quest for the White House. It was a cost that surpassed $2 billion and sometimes came with the cloak of anonymity for billionaire donors.

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The 2012 presidential election broke the $2 billion milestone in its final weeks, becoming the most expensive in American political history, according to final federal finance reports released Thursday. The reports detailed a last-minute cascade of money from mega-donors and an onslaught of spending by the Obama and Romney campaigns and "super" political action committees.

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Final campaign finance tallies trickled out Thursday for a presidential race expected to be the most expensive in U. S. political history, showing a last-minute $10 million contribution to a political action committee backing Republican candidate Mitt Romney from a billionaire Las Vegas casino magnate who has been the election’s biggest moneyman.

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The administration is taking a tough line on the "fiscal cliff" at the same time President Barack Obama resumes contact with House Speaker John Boehner over ways to avert across-the-board spending cuts and tax increases at the turn of the year.

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The dealmakers who warn that a year-end plunge off the "fiscal cliff" would be disastrous don’t seem to be rushing to stop it. Why aren’t they panicking?

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The Defense Department has begun planning for the roughly $500 billion in personnel and program cuts over a decade that will be needed if Congress and the White House fail to reach a deal that would avoid the double hit of tax hikes and automatic spending reductions dubbed the "fiscal cliff. "

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