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Last week, the House continued to make progress on appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2012. The House passed ...
Transportation spending will likely return to the agenda on Capitol Hill in the months ahead. The highway authorization ...
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 ...
Elected officials often approach discussions about deficit reduction as a zero-sum game in which compromise amounts to defeat. ...
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 ...
The leaders of two prominent deficit-reduction panels worry that elected officials this year will lack “the courage to ...
Prospects for fiscal reform efforts by the “Gang of Six” senators were left uncertain after one of the ...
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 ...
