Word: congress
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...There's not a very good chance that Republicans will gain the kind of vetoproof Congress they were talking about earlier in the year," said Edwards, who is also a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government...
Part of the difficulty in predicting results is that most voters don't care which party controls Congress, he said, citing a recent study...
...awaited austerity plan: tax hikes and spending cuts on nearly everything he's constitutionally allowed to touch. "It's a bold plan," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "It's what he promised both the IMF and the Brazilian people." Now for the hard part: getting it past Congress...
...proposed budget savings, which add up to $24 billion, target a lot of sacred cows -- especially the social security benefits of civil servants -- and despite Cardoso's popular mandate for the plan, Congress is expected to kick up a considerable fuss. But Baumohl thinks that the international response will prove convincing. "We should start to see foreign investment returning to Brazil, and the IMF now has an obligation to put together the planned $30 billion bailout." Cardoso has written the recipe for Brazil's recovery. All he's got to do now is make sure the meal gets cooked...
...were surprised, consider yourself as having failed the test, and miserably so. Any points you may have amassed are forfeited. The words were directed at both TIME and Congress...