At a time when lawmakers are under public pressure to show greater fiscal responsibility, Congress has chosen to ...
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer stirred considerable discussion in Washington with a thoughtful speech last week emphasizing the ...
Last week congressional leaders confirmed what many have long suspected: Congress will not meet its obligation to ...
A Washington Post editorial today sums up a bunch of different strands of thinking about the federal budget ...
Last month I participated in a conference of mostly military officials and national security experts at the Naval ...
Debate on the so-called “extenders” bill has focused on the size and duration of unemployment benefits, health insurance ...
If the Obama administration follows through on its newly announced effort to identify and weed out unproductive federal ...
While advocates of a federal value-added tax (VAT) point to key benefits for a country struggling with big ...
The Obama administration sent a letter to Congress over the weekend requesting $50 billion in spending to support ...
Deficits remain a big focus in Washington as President Obama, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and members of ...
The Obama administration has announced a very small effort to reduce deficit spending, and yet liberal groups are ...
