Last week, the House continued to make progress on appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2012. The House passed ...
Elected officials still seem locked into their negotiating positions on the federal debt limit, leading Moody’s to warn ...
The punch line of an old joke aptly describes the status of budget negotiations in Washington: you can’t ...
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 ...
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) announced last week that the committee would not consider the FY ...
Negotiations to raise the federal debt limit are resuming today between the administration and lawmakers as partisan bickering ...
With the 2011 appropriations bills finally complete, the House turned its attention to the 2012 bills last week. ...
Efforts by the bipartisan “Gang of Six” in the Senate to forge a comprehensive budget deal have received ...
The federal government hit its debt ceiling Monday, forcing the administration to turn to what Treasury Secretary Tim ...
Last week Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mt.) said "A debt reduction trigger could be an important ...
With an eye on the need to raise the federal debt limit soon, administration officials and six congressional ...