Tag: Spending

The U.S. involvement in Afghan reconstruction efforts was marred by corruption, according to John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

National Security

Afghanistan watchdog: U.S. collaborated with ‘corrupt warlords, militias and power brokers’

Jamie McIntyre · September 14, 2016 3:38 pm

McConnell: Votes this week on spending bill and Zika funding

Susan Ferrechio · September 12, 2016 7:45 pm

The podcast series explores how NIH-funded researchers recently have developed new treatments. (iStock photo)

Podcasts highlight need for more medical research funds

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 12, 2016 5:15 pm

House Republicans are eager to ditch the "omnibus" bill and want to try several smaller "minibuses." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

House GOP ditches ‘tarnished’ omnibus bill

Susan Ferrechio · September 10, 2016 4:01 am

Harvard professor Larry Summers warned that Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen's optimism one day might be viewed the same way that Ben Bernanke's statements downplaying the subprime crisis were, and he concluded in an op-ed that "the Fed's complacency about its current toolbox is unwarranted." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Economists fear U.S. not prepared to fight off a recession

Joseph Lawler · September 10, 2016 4:01 am

Health officials dipped into research money for cancer and diabetes to help fund the trial. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

NIH’s Fauci: Zika vaccine trial will stop without funding

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 8, 2016 5:13 pm

Coats, who chairs the Joint Economic Committee, said in a Thursday hearing that the BRAC program is an "extraordinary success in terms of forcing action" by Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP senator borrows idea from DoD to cut federal spending

Joseph Lawler · September 8, 2016 3:55 pm

The Zika funding bill attaches an extra phrase onto language describing how some of the funding that could go to Planned Parenthood can be allocated. (AP Photo)

Three things to know about Zika’s Planned Parenthood fight

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 8, 2016 4:01 am

The deal could included funding for the Zika virus and a vote could happen as early as next week, he said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

McConnell working on funding bill until Dec. 9

Susan Ferrechio · September 7, 2016 6:29 pm

Ryan, R-Wis., didn't provide any details on a possible bipartisan deal. Instead, he accused congressional Democrats of being "wholly partisan" in their unified opposition to a $1.1 billion deal authored by House and Senate Republicans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ryan: ‘Have to resolve’ Zika funding this month

Susan Ferrechio · September 7, 2016 2:50 pm

More than 50 associations ask congressional leaders to pass a funding bill before Zika spreads more. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Dozens of health groups demand Zika funding

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 6, 2016 9:00 am

The Senate this week will take up a series of gun control bills that have all failed in similar form in the past. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Congress returns for a brief session to take up spending bills

Susan Ferrechio · September 6, 2016 4:01 am