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  A Utah man police say threatened to assassinate Gov. Gary R. Herbert is facing multiple felony charges.

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  McConnell wants vote on birth-control mandate

  Conservatives said Sunday the flap surrounding President Obama's birth-control mandate was far from over, with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell saying he'll push to overturn the requirement because it was another example of government meddling.

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  White House says contraception compromise will stand

  White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew said Sunday the Obama administration has no plans to compromise further on its controversial mandate that religious organizations provide contraception services in their employee insurance plans.

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  Obama to unveil budget with higher taxes, more deficits

  President Obama's budget request to Congress on Monday will forecast a deficit of $1.33 trillion in the current fiscal year and calls for $1.5 trillion in tax increases over the next decade, senior administration officials said Friday night.

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  Obama names Zients as interim OMB chief

  In a bit of reshuffling between the White House and its Office of Management and Budget, President Obama on Tuesday tapped Jeffrey Zients as the OMB's acting director.

• Cantor delinks disaster-aid funds from offsets

  A top Republican said Wednesday the GOP-controlled House will act quickly on any disaster-aid request by President Obama and that help for victims of Hurricane Irene and earlier disasters doesn't necessarily have to be paid for with spending cuts elsewhere in the budget.

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  The White House is estimating that Hurricane Irene will cost the federal government $1.5 billion in disaster relief.

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  Dark-cloud financial forecast precedes president's speech

  Ahead of President Obama's major speech next week, his administration on Thursday released a gloomy picture of the government's finances that shows that even with the deficit supercommittee's action, the government will pile up nearly $10 trillion in deficits over the next decade.

• HOLMES: Taking defense hostage

  Amid the fog surrounding the recently enacted Budget Control Act and the new Joint Select "super" Committee on Deficit Reduction, one thing is clear: National defense spending has been taken hostage. Policymakers from both parties think threatening draconian defense cuts can protect their positions on taxes and entitlement spending.

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  White House orders agencies to cut their budgets

  It's a microcosm of the budget battling that has consumed Congress all year: The Obama administration wants federal agencies to save money while Republicans push for additional savings to take a substantial bite out of the government's towering pile of IOUs.

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  MILLER: Debt-talk endgame

  Congressional leaders will continue to attend debt-ceiling negotiations, but it's just for show. The talks are effectively over. President Obama delivered an ultimatum to Republicans: Accept tax hikes and smoke-and-mirror spending cuts or default on America's debt obligations. In Monday's White House meeting, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked Mr. Obama's budget director, Jack Lew, how much the deal on the table would cut discretionary spending next year. Mr. Lew responded, "$2 billion." That's a mere 0.3 percent cut overall. With the purported Aug. 2 default deadline around the corner, a deal acceptable to conservatives is not going to happen.

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