With the budget conference committee facing a mid-December deadline to reach a bipartisan deal, the work has shifted ...
Although the federal deficit fell sharply over the last year as the economic recovery continued, this good news ...
Given the acrimonious political environment and the wide discrepancy between the House and Senate budgets, the conference committee ...
At a luncheon this month in Jackson, Wyoming, former U.S. senator Alan Simpson left no one in doubt ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now estimates that gradually increasing the eligibility age for Medicare to 67 would ...
Although the latest manufactured fiscal crisis is over for now, brinkmanship over funding the government and the debt ...
With the budget conference committee starting to meet this week, some political leaders seem to be thinking that ...
Who says that Democrats and Republicans can't reach a grand bargain? Harry Reid and Paul Ryan seem to have it ...
Fitch Ratings placed the United State’s AAA credit rating on “Rating Watch Negative” last week, due to the ...
As Washington wrestled with its immediate budget problems last week, an Iowa gathering of national, state and local ...
With last week’s passage of a short-term Continuing Resolution funding the government and a debt limit increase, elected ...
The federal debt limit is actually a case of mistaken identity, according to Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert ...
