Congress pushes Christmas compromises
December 16, 2015
Congressional leaders are girded to push a Christmas compromise on tax cuts and spending through the House and Senate by week’s end after Republicans and
Congress wrapping up tax deals
December 15, 2015
White House and congressional negotiators are trading final offers over U.S. oil exports and concessions for home-state interests as they move toward wrapping up a
Congress wraps up year with spending, taxing
December 14, 2015
The White House and top lawmakers want to wrap up a year’s worth of budget work and let Congress adjourn this coming week until 2016.
Red ink? What red ink? Let’s spend more
January 30, 2015
The deficit is dead. Long live the deficit. As the nation’s ledger adjusts to decreasing levels of deficit spending, the voices in Washington calling for
Obama wants no limits on domestic, defense spending
January 29, 2015
President Barack Obama will seek to bust through spending limits for both domestic and defense programs, the White House said Thursday, negating the effects of
Democrats complain of drop in outside spending
November 2, 2014
Environmentalists, labor and women’s groups that spent more than $29 million to help House Democrats in 2012 have put up barely a quarter of that
Democrats spending a million a day on Senate races
October 13, 2014
Senate Democrats’ campaign arm spent almost $1 million a day last month to defend their at-risk majority, according to a summary of their September finances
Feds waste billions in improper payments
July 9, 2014
By its own estimate, the government made about $100 billion in payments last year to people who may not have been entitled to receive them