While the final outcome of the appropriations process this year will likely be affected by negotiations over the ...
Republican lawmakers this week are rallying behind a version of the balanced budget amendment that would enshrine a ...
This week Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Ok.) proposed a comprehensive plan to reduce projected federal borrowing by $9 trillion ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell continue to work on a plan that ...
The partisan vortex in Washington is now so strong that it threatens to swallow all rational thought. The partisan ...
Recent reports by Brown University and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) underscore the need for Congress to honestly ...
Although elected officials often talk about tax cuts helping the economy, whether such reductions live up to the ...
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) outlined a budget framework Monday that he said would reduce deficits ...
Both negotiations and the war of words continue over raising the federal debt limit and curbing future deficits. ...
The biggest sticking point in the debt-limit talks has been the disagreement over tax policy. The biggest sticking point ...
This originally appeared on The American Square at http://theamericansquare.org/profiles/blogs/go-long This originally appeared on The American Square at http://theamericansquare.org/profiles/blogs/go-longPresident Obama ...
An economically "sustainable" debt is one that does not rise faster than our means to ultimately pay it ...