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 ...
Iowa residents were urged last week to help focus the 2012 election on fixing the federal government’s long-term ...
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 ...
The tax proposals in President Obama’s latest deficit-reduction plan have led to partisan charges and counter-charges of “class ...
Members of the new congressional committee on deficit reduction are showing considerable interest in the idea of revamping ...
A government shutdown was avoided last night when Senate leaders reached agreement on a continuing resolution (CR) to ...
The “dynamic scoring” debate is back again. The “dynamic scoring” debate is back again. Last week the House ...