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Amid ongoing debt-limit negotiations, the Obama administration Monday sought to tie the Cut, Cap, Balance Act to the budget proposal put forth earlier this year by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan.  (more)

Internet problems getting you down? Worry not (or do the opposite), because it happens to the White House from time to time as well. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The struggle over tax cuts is seriously straining President Barack Obama’s relationship with House Democrats, who have backed him on key issues even when it cost them politically. (more)

President Obama on Monday proposed a two-year freeze of all pay for federal workers, excluding military personnel, in his first major post-election move to show seriousness about spending restraint and debt and deficit reduction. (more)

House Speaker hopeful John Boehner, the current minority leader from Ohio, wanted his plan for governance – a remake of the 1994 “Contract with America” – to stay out of the press until Thursday morning. That didn’t happen. (more)

President Obama agrees that economic uncertainty is bad, but not the kind that conservatives are worried about. He showed surprisingly strong emotions when attacking the Florida pastor with plans to burn the Koran. And the president’s advisers really didn’t like the question from Fox News. (more)

Since 1995, the White House has been required by law to report to Congress every year on staff salaries. On Friday the Obama administration did just that. And this year’s report has its fair share of interesting findings. (more)

Arizona Republican Jon Kyl dropped a bombshell on Friday when he told supporters in Phoenix that during a one-on-one meeting on immigration, President Obama said he’s “holding it hostage” — “it” being border security — in exchange for comprehensive reform. But according to the White House, Obama made no such threat. (more)

Sarah Feinberg, a longtime aide to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, is leaving the Obama administration to work for Bloomberg, the global data and news company announced Wednesday. (more)

After two days of angry partisan arguments in Washington over the issue of financial regulation reform, a Republican senator from Tennessee summed up the state of play. (more)

The nation’s top health insurance spokeswoman and President Obama’s top health-care official crossed swords, if ever so politely, in remarks to a gathering of industry representatives in Washington on Wednesday. (more)

President Obama has made much of the fact that he wants to be a transformative president like Ronald Reagan. But in at least one way he is the anti-Reagan: his intentional avoidance of iconic presidential imagery. (more)

It wasn’t a disaster for either Republicans or Democrats. It wasn’t a total bore either. And while there were some combative moments, the two sides managed to remain largely civil. (more)

President Obama made his best effort to save health care reform Monday by leaving the Senate-passed bill largely intact while removing provisions that were viewed as the most egregious and offensive products of back room deals with special interests. (more)

1.) White House pledges “discipline in the spending process” (more)

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said Thursday that in any “normal time” Republicans would back some of the president’s initiatives. (more)

President Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said Monday that the White House has inadequately communicated with Americans about health-care reform. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and congressional leaders are embarking on the tough work of ironing out differences between the House and Senate health care legislation with the aim of finalizing a bill quickly as midterm elections loom. (more)