Although Congress recently completed its budget process for this fiscal year and took action to avoid another federal ...
The House Budget Committee last week approved a bill on a bipartisan 22-10 vote that would switch the ...
Although Congress finally took action on the debt limit last week, the legislative hypocrisy on display fed public ...
As the Treasury resorts to “extraordinary measures” to avoid defaulting on some financial obligations, Congress has continued to ...
The economic recovery has produced larger-than-expected surpluses for many states, and their elected officials are considering what to ...
In her first congressional appearance as chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen this morning discussed challenges facing ...
The Senate is moving forward on a troubling bill that would add roughly $6.8 billion to the deficit ...
WASHINGTON -- With the Senate this week considering repeal of the recent reduction in cost-of-living (COLA) increases for ...
State lawmakers across the country are debating how to spend large surpluses after the economic recovery helped ...
Although President Obama’s State of the Union Address last week covered a wide array of topics, it failed ...
“Like Frankenstein’s monster, the statutory debt limit will soon come back to life,” says Concord Coalition Executive Director ...