The Senate Monday voted 56-26 to confirm Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen as the Fed’s next chairman. ...
Federal investment totaled $531 billion in 2012, amounting to 15 percent of all federal spending and 3 percent ...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the military is “challenging every past assumption, every past formula” in trying to ...
As lawmakers continue their work this week on a new five-year farm bill, they should be cutting unnecessary ...
Congress returned from recess Monday confronted by rapidly approaching fiscal deadlines. The Senate and House will both be ...
Syria is not the only challenge Congress faces as it returns to Washington from its August recess. Monday ...
This year will mark the end of a four-year string of trillion-dollar-plus federal deficits that have troubled the ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) told lawmakers last week that the Highway Trust Fund would become insolvent in ...
The Senate passed a sweeping immigration bill last week aided by a costly amendment that directs $46.3 billion ...
The Department of Defense has begun to scale back its operations to comply with $487 billion in spending ...
Legislation to revamp the nation’s immigration laws is on track for Senate approval this week after an expensive ...
Last week the House of Representatives unexpectedly failed to pass a new 5-year farm bill. Without legislation, policies ...
