The legal term severable normally gets little notice outside the world of constitutional law -- yet now it has become a big ...
Congress has approved a one-year extension of Medicare payment rates for physicians, avoiding steep cuts that would otherwise ...
Last week the House voted 212-206 to pass a continuing resolution to fund federal agencies for the rest ...
Deficit hawks have long warned that unnecessary delays in deficit reduction carry risks and high costs that will ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now projects that the cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will ...
To allow federal agencies to continue operating through Dec. 18, Congress last week approved another continuing resolution. The ...
Some people on both ends of the political spectrum have criticized the recommendations of the President’s fiscal commission ...
A bipartisan majority on the President's fiscal commission has surprised skeptics and pleased deficit hawks by supporting a ...
On Monday President Obama announced a “framework for a bipartisan agreement” on extending the Bush tax cuts for ...
By now we've seen a number of proposals for fiscal sustainability from groups with very different perspectives. By now ...
This week the House and Senate are expected to act on a new continuing resolution to prevent a ...
As the country awaits the final recommendations of the President's fiscal commission, it is worth noting that several ...
