Topic: Joe Biden

Deficit talks look at spending-cut compromises

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deficit-reduction negotiators have identified broad areas for saving hundreds of billions of dollars but still disagree on changing the costly but popular Medicare program, a source familiar with the talks said on Wednesday.Vice President Joe Biden and a bipartisan ...

Agencies' faulty payments make OMB site hit list

gov is latest federal effort to reduce $110 billion in improper payments. The Office of Management and Budget has started a new Web site, PaymentAccuracy. Federal improper payments were estimated to total $110 billion in fiscal 2009, up from $72 billion in ...

No pulse, no pay: How the 'Do Not Pay' list will work

New measures aim to reduce federal benefit payments to ineligible recipients. Vice President Joe Biden has announced the creation of a comprehensive federal Do Not Pay List of contractors and individuals ineligible to receive payments from the government.. The goal of the ...

White House moves to prevent payments to dead people

New measures aim to reduce federal benefit payments to ineligible recipients. Vice President Joe Biden has announced the creation of a comprehensive federal Do Not Pay List of contractors and individuals ineligible to receive payments from the government.. The goal of the ...

White House targets insurers over healthcare premiums

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House kept insurance companies squarely in its sights Tuesday in the push for healthcare reform by releasing research showing that health insurance premiums have risen far faster than inflation in every U.S. state.U.S. "In every state, premiums ...

Republicans: U.S. healthcare timetable may slip

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Critics assailed the Obama administration on Wednesday for a deal with hospitals meant to cut costs, and a top Republican said the U.S. Senate may need more than a planned month to pass a bipartisan healthcare reform bill.Senate Democratic ...

Quotes from the Democratic debate

Quotes From Thursday's Democratic DebateQuotes from the Democrats' debate Thursday night in Las Vegas.___HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON_On what she meant by calling her presidential rivals an "all-boys club": "Well, it is clear, I think, from women's experiences that from time to time, there ...