Last week, the House continued to make progress on appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2012. The House passed ...
Transportation spending will likely return to the agenda on Capitol Hill in the months ahead. The highway authorization ...
Elected officials still seem locked into their negotiating positions on the federal debt limit, leading Moody’s to warn ...
With only 1 percent of the federal budget, foreign aid makes up a much smaller part of the ...
Elected officials often approach discussions about deficit reduction as a zero-sum game in which compromise amounts to defeat. ...
Six diverse organizations offered proposals for broad fiscal reform last week at the second annual “Fiscal Summit” in ...
Last week the Senate rejected motions to proceed to four budget proposals. Like this week’s scheduled House vote ...
Later today House Republicans plan to vote down an initial request from the administration to approve an increase ...
By Rebecca Williams A viable plan to reduce our country’s mounting deficits and debt will be built on painful ...
The leaders of two prominent deficit-reduction panels worry that elected officials this year will lack “the courage to ...
Prospects for fiscal reform efforts by the “Gang of Six” senators were left uncertain after one of the ...
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) announced last week that the committee would not consider the FY ...
