Senate GOP adds Dodd-Frank rewrite to $21B funding bill

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'Familiar accounting tricks'

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's budget is relying on a series of familiar accounting tricks to show $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction over a decade, an amount that would shrink by almost half if they were excluded.

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Obama's record budget

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Obama to sign relief from flood insurance hikes

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is set to sign into law a bipartisan bill relieving homeowners living in flood-prone neighborhoods from big increases in their insurance bills.

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Choosing their battles

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