Members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (“super committee”) have a timing problem that compounds their ...
Last January, members of Congress paired up with colleagues of the opposite party for the State of the ...
President Obama said Monday he would seek congressional approval of “bite-sized pieces” of his $447 billion plan to ...
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction is receiving an earful of advice as congressional committees and individual ...
Last week Senators Jeff Sessions (R-Al.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Me.) introduced the “Honest Budget Act,” which proposes a ...
The Congressional Budget Office has provided an estimate of what the deficit would be if the economy were ...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is urging Congress to focus on achieving long-run fiscal sustainability in the federal ...
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-Al.) both have expressed support for ...
President Obama continues to campaign for a package of tax cuts and additional spending that he says will ...
The new congressional committee on deficit reduction continues its work this week amid concerns that some elected officials ...
This afternoon the House is scheduled to consider a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through Nov. ...
Former CBO directors Rudolph Penner and Alice Rivlin were among the budget experts who testified in front of ...