If Congress were to simply follow the budget path laid out in current law, the federal government might ...
Last December a bipartisan majority of President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform surprised skeptics with ...
Fitch Ratings on Monday affirmed the U.S. government’s AAA rating but lowered its long-term rating outlook from “stable” ...
Many people were urging members of the deficit reduction super committee to “go big.” Now it appears that ...
President Obama signed the first regular appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2012 into law last Friday. The legislation ...
While there are many places in the federal budget where taxpayer dollars could be saved, simply “cutting waste” ...
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 ...
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? ...
