President Obama began his direct involvement in budget negotiations Monday by meeting separately with Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
Lawmakers received a stark warning last week from a host of prominent economic and federal policy experts: The ...
After a week-long recess, the House continued last week to make progress on FY 2012 appropriations bills. The ...
Contradictory reports last week created confusion over the AARP’s stance on possible changes in Social Security. Although the ...
Vice President Joe Biden says the budget talks he chairs are “getting down to the hard stuff” and ...
In an encouraging vote last week, a bipartisan Senate majority approved a repeal of the ethanol tax credit. ...
With Congress increasingly concerned about military spending in Afghanistan and elsewhere, Leon Panetta signaled last week that as ...
Although Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once described taxes as “what we pay for civilized society,” political debates over ...
Much of the political debate over health care costs continues to focus on who should pay them rather ...
Congress and the White House are accelerating their budget and debt limit negotiations amid growing concerns about the ...
Many older Americans pay close attention to the big federal entitlement programs that provide them with benefits. But ...
Two budget experts who are part of The Concord Coalition’s Fiscal Solutions Tour emphasize the importance of Medicare ...
