Last week the House of Representatives unexpectedly failed to pass a new 5-year farm bill. Without legislation, policies ...
House and Senate plans for appropriations bills for 2014 are currently about $91 billion apart, setting the stage ...
The blame game over a possible government shutdown has begun three and a half months before the end ...
Judging by recent media reports, there is a growing belief in Washington that the best way to deal ...
WASHINGTON -- With today’s Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report showing the growing strain the two programs will ...
While there are plenty of distractions these days in Washington, elected officials should try to remember that much ...
WASHINGTON -- With today’s updated numbers from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing a decline in projected budget ...
Despite all the serious budget work facing Congress, lawmakers in both parties continue to distract themselves, fritter away ...
While Congress last week rushed through a measure to ease the effects of its automatic spending cuts on ...
Although Congress has plenty of serious budget work to do, lawmakers in both parties can’t seem to resist ...
The hope for "regular order" on a budget resolution stalled this week as unfortunate partisan bickering continued over ...
Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, who led a national fiscal commission to a bipartisan set of recommendations in ...
