If Congress were to simply follow the budget path laid out in current law, the federal government might ...
The current debate over extending the payroll tax cut well demonstrates that policymakers often mean different things when ...
Time is running short for members of the congressional “super committee,” which has until a week from tomorrow ...
As elected officials weighed reforms that could put the federal budget on a sustainable track, the AARP last ...
The Department of the Treasury has released final budget numbers for Fiscal Year 2011, which show that it ...
President Obama said Monday he would seek congressional approval of “bite-sized pieces” of his $447 billion plan to ...
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 ...
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President Obama continues to campaign for a package of tax cuts and additional spending that he says will ...
Last week the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on “dynamic scoring,” a controversial alternative method ...
Members of the new congressional committee on deficit reduction are showing considerable interest in the idea of revamping ...
