Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) today announced that he will retire from the Senate when his ...
Proposals from President Obama’s fiscal commission and other bipartisan panels that issued reports last year are drawing renewed ...
An OMB report concludes that exemptions in the PAYGO law have been used for legislation adding hundreds of ...
Although older Americans often talk about wanting a bright future for their children and grandchildren, irresponsible fiscal policies ...
Citing the country’s “extreme fiscal duress,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates last week said the administration would cut $78 ...
Recent calculations by Gene Steuerle and Stephanie Rennane at the Urban Institute underscore Medicare’s financial challenges and the ...
Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner has warned Congress that the statutory debt limit could be reached by ...
Last week the House adopted budget enforcement rules that restrict spending but exempt tax cuts. Included are rules ...
After John Boehner (R-OH) was formally elected speaker of the House of Representatives last week, the first order ...
Urban Institute scholar Gene Steuerle has run the numbers and found that for Medicare, retirees are getting a really good ...
A recent Congressional Budget Office report warns that interest payments on the national debt could explode over the ...
Whether the U.S. can move beyond “deficit denial” may depend on three elected officials who will each present ...
