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The Borgias: Created by Neil Jordan. With Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Peter Sullivan. In the fifteenth century, Pope Alexander VI tries to control all power in Italy with the help of his several sons, through murder, intrigue, war, and marriage alliances.
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1 Video. 68 Photos. Comedy Drama. A self-destructive woman who has a spiritual awakening becomes determined to live an enlightened life, creating havoc at home and work. Creators. Laura Dern. Mike White. Stars. Laura Dern. Diane Ladd. Sarah Burns. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. S1-2. +2. Add to Watchlist. Added by 23.5K users.
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The 2011 Budget
Current budget dysfunction stretches back to the fall of 2010, when Republicans seeking seats in the House of Representatives ran on a platform promising, in part, to stop or undo the work of the early Obama administration and to cut spending.[i] Lawmakers had failed to pass a budget for fiscal 2011 – which began on Oct. 1, 2010 – prior to the midterm elections in November, and the subsequent lame duck session also did not succeed at passing a budget for the year. That left the job to the new...
The Debt Ceiling and the Budget Control Act
During the summer of 2011, the federal debt was nearing the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is the legal limit Congress places on its own borrowing. A faction of Republicans led by the Tea Party opposed raising the debt ceiling without significant cuts to government programs as a means of deficit reduction, and the federal government very nearly hit the debt ceiling and defaulted on interest payments on its loans.[iv] In the end, lawmakers instead agreed to the Budget Control Act of 2011(BCA),...
The Fiscal Cliff
In the final months of 2012, a pending budget crisis known as the fiscal cliff became the center of attention in Washington and in national news media. This so-called cliff was a combination of tax increases and spending cuts that were all scheduled to take effect in January 2013. Generally speaking, tax cuts and expanded government spending are used to stimulate the economy during an economic downturn. The fiscal cliff would have been precisely the opposite of such stimulus; it was a package...
The 2013 Budget and the Use of Temporary Spending Bills
Lawmakers should have been at work crafting a budget for fiscal 2013 long before the fiscal year began on Oct. 1, 2012. While President Obama released his budget proposal in February as required, and the House Budget Committee passed its budget resolution as is also required, lawmakers failed to complete any other steps in the budget process. Thus the fiscal year began with a continuing resolution (CR) – a temporary spending bill – instead of an actual budget. That CR funded the government th...
Sequestration
As mandated by the BCA, sequestration went into effect in 2013, though the fiscal cliff deal delayed the cuts from beginning in January until March and reduced the level of cuts slated for fiscal 2013 from $109 billion to $85 billion.[viii] Discretionary spending was cut across-the-board as a result of sequestration. Domestic programs like Head Start, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, Children (WIC), the Community Development Block Grant, the Emergency Food and Sh...
The 2014 Budget and the Government Shutdown
Just as lawmakers failed to do the work of writing a budget for fiscal 2013, they also neglected to budget for fiscal 2014 before its start date on Oct. 1 – but this time, there were more immediate negative consequences. As the new fiscal year approached, partisan differences reached new heights. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), the health reform legislation also known as Obamacare, was scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 1, 2013, the first day of fiscal 2014. Republicans in the House of Repres...
This series of budget crises inflicted considerable damage on the American people – from job losses and reduced economic activity to a government that failed, again and again, to do the people’s business of writing a budget that reflected the priorities of the nation. These crises also reflect the urgent need for a more engaged electorate – an elec...
The 112th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, from January 3, 2011, until January 3, 2013.
The 2011–2013 Russian protests, which some English language media referred to as the Snow Revolution (Russian: Снежная революция, romanized: Snezhnaya revolyutsiya), began in 2011 (as protests against the 2011 Russian legislative election results) and continued into 2012 and 2013.
Dec 30, 2013 · What did 2013 mean and what will the next year bring? Read on for our take. Biggest stories of the year. The NSA leaks. The leaks began in June. Edward Snowden, an NSA contractor, had collected a...
In this shocking direction for everyone's favorite symbiote, the government now has Venom as their own Spider-Man, complete with a new look and new mission-eliminate threats to America as a covert agent. Browse the Marvel comic series Venom (2011 - 2013).
