In a change of pace from its usual practice, Congress is allowing a group of temporary tax provisions ...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the military is “challenging every past assumption, every past formula” in trying to ...
Given the acrimonious political environment and the wide discrepancy between the House and Senate budgets, the conference committee ...
In their latest updates on Social Security and Medicare, the trustees for the programs include data that show ...
One of the central problems with the country’s health care system is that it often shields consumers from ...
The hope for "regular order" on a budget resolution stalled this week as unfortunate partisan bickering continued over ...
I. Introduction The annual Budget and Economic Outlook released on Feb. 5 by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) contained ...
I. Introduction Federal borrowing is once again near the statutory debt limit. At the end of last year, Secretary ...
As election day approaches, it is appropriate to look at what we know and what we don’t know ...
“Campaign to Fix the Debt,” a new initiative to push for comprehensive fiscal reform, is being launched in ...
Over the past several weeks, there has been a flurry of activity on Capitol Hill as ...
I. What’s a structural deficit? One possible response to the recent spike in federal budget deficits -- from ...