As elected officials weighed reforms that could put the federal budget on a sustainable track, the AARP last ...
The AARP has launched a misleading and divisive ad campaign aimed at excluding Social Security and Medicare from ...
Iowa residents were urged last week to help focus the 2012 election on fixing the federal government’s long-term ...
The new congressional committee on deficit reduction continues its work this week amid concerns that some elected officials ...
President Obama offered his deficit-reduction recommendations to the congressional super committee on Monday, urging the panel to find ...
The new congressional “super committee” meets today amid growing pressure from various quarters to look for ways to ...
Many Americans ask why it is so difficult to rein in federal spending. Former U.S. Sen. John Danforth ...
After Republicans and Democrats on the new super committee held separate discussions last week, the co-chairs announced that ...
The administration has lowered its deficit projections from last February but cautions that further action is needed to ...
New projections from the Congressional Budget Office show a potential path to significantly reduce federal deficits over the ...
As congressional hearings last week made clear, some lawmakers in both parties continue to chafe at a key ...
This week Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Ok.) proposed a comprehensive plan to reduce projected federal borrowing by $9 trillion ...