The current debate over extending the payroll tax cut well demonstrates that policymakers often mean different things when ...
In the wake of the super committee’s failure last week, Congress faces some key decisions on expiring policies ...
Many people were urging members of the deficit reduction super committee to “go big.” Now it appears that ...
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider the constitutionality of the legislation approved last year to revamp ...
House and Senate negotiators reached an agreement yesterday on the first conference report of the appropriations process for ...
Time is running short for members of the congressional “super committee,” which has until a week from tomorrow ...
WASHINGTON – With little more than a week to go before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction ...
The special congressional committee on deficit reduction recently heard testimony from the leaders of two prominent bipartisan panels ...
On Capitol Hill last week, attention turned to Fiscal Year 2012 appropriations as the House and Senate convened ...
Will Congress be able to approve a plan this year to significantly reduce deficits over the coming decade? ...
Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, last week outlined some of the difficulties facing ...
In addition to the political challenges facing the “super committee” on deficit reduction, it is running ...
