Xavier Becerra

Some ideas for trimming the skyrocketing federal Deficit are not just out of the box. They are out of this world. Yahoo! News asked members of the Yahoo! Contributor Network to submit their own ideas for what to do about the deficit, and contrib…

(12-06) 04:00 PST Washington - -- The surprise majority vote by a Bipartisan commission to cut nearly $4 Trillion from future Deficits has reframed the Budget debate in Washington for the first time since the Clinton presidency, forcing both par…

How the 18 members of President Barack Obama's Deficit commission voted on a mix of Spending Cuts and Tax Increases. The 11-7 vote in favor of recommendations by the panel's co-chairmen fell short of the 14 needed to send the plan to Congress. Fo…

WASHINGTON — The president's Deficit commission report, scheduled for a vote by the full panel on Friday, proposes to slash Tax Rates for corporations and for high earners. The top tax rate is currently 35 percent and is scheduled to rise …

There's still a chance that Democrats could move Immigration Legislation this year, a House Democratic leader said Tuesday. . Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), the vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said that while ublican opposition had mad…

Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:12am EDT (Reuters) - The Bipartisan panel created by President Barack Obama to recommend ways to tackle the skyrocketing U.S. Budget Deficit holds its first meeting on Tuesday. The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility i…

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