The Senate Monday voted 56-26 to confirm Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen as the Fed’s next chairman. ...
Residents of the Quad Cities community on the Iowa-Illinois border showed their support for improving America’s long-term fiscal ...
Federal investment totaled $531 billion in 2012, amounting to 15 percent of all federal spending and 3 percent ...
Opponents of Social Security reform argue that Social Security has nothing to do with the federal deficit, and ...
Hoping to meet a Jan. 15 deadline for congressional action, lawmakers responsible for appropriations and their staffs are ...
The federal debt held by investors and foreign countries amounts to 72 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic ...
The Senate today cleared the way for the expected passage of a two-year budget plan that could avoid ...
In a change of pace from its usual practice, Congress is allowing a group of temporary tax provisions ...
Unlike the past few years, the recent budget agreement has smoothed the way for Congress to recess for ...
WASHINGTON--Elected officials must follow up the new two-year budget deal with much larger efforts to put the nation’s ...
President Obama hailed the two-year budget deal reached by House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate ...
Extending emergency unemployment compensation for another year would add 200,000 jobs to the economy but would carry a ...
