Tag: Budgets and Deficits

An inspector general audit found $1.2 million of $4.6 million spent by a wildlife group was unsupported. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Energy and Environment

Watchdog questions costs by conservation contractor in Afghanistan

Kyle Feldscher · December 11, 2015 9:07 pm

Congress sends five-day funding extension to Obama

Susan Ferrechio · December 11, 2015 5:38 pm

About 400 older diesel-engine school buses will be replaced or updated with newer, cleaner technology. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)

EPA to hand out $7 million for cleaner school buses

Kyle Feldscher · December 11, 2015 4:25 pm

More than a dozen House Democrats have proposed legislation that would change federal law to prevent foreign nationals from buying firearms after entering the United States through the Visa Waiver Program. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Energy and Environment

Spending deal may hinge on federal study of gun violence

Susan Ferrechio · December 11, 2015 5:01 am

"I don't know," said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairwoman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, in response to a question on how negotiations were going. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Obama spends billions abroad on climate change, little at home, Alaska aide says

Kyle Feldscher · December 11, 2015 12:44 am

House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., told the Washington Examiner on Thursday the two sides continue to negotiate after Democrats sent an offer late Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate passes five-day government funding bill

Susan Ferrechio · December 10, 2015 7:46 pm

Mail volumes have fallen, reducing profits in the Postal Service's monopoly-protected business of last-mile delivery. (AP Photo/Alex Washburn)

Same problems, same ‘solutions’ for USPS

Brian McNicoll · December 10, 2015 5:01 am

"So you know, I'd like nothing better than to break open that Abandoned Mine Lands fund of money ... and get at it for the purposes that we're talking about. But it's just been impossible so far," said Rep. Rogers. (AP File Photo)

‘Dozens’ of policy measures delay spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · December 9, 2015 7:14 pm

"In order for us to support the omnibus bill, the poison pill riders must go," Pelosi said in the memo. (AP File Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Spending bill stalls in Congress days before funding deadline

Susan Ferrechio · December 7, 2015 11:13 pm

Defense contractors go on offense

Jacqueline Klimas · December 7, 2015 6:00 am

It may more be related to lawmakers' interests in home states than anti-Russian sentiments, analysts say. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

National Security

Lawmakers fight over Russian engines about politics, not threats

Jacqueline Klimas · December 6, 2015 5:01 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fumed at the GOP's preliminary offer, which she called a "Tea Party policy wish list with an appropriations bill as an addendum to it." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Energy and Environment

Congress scrambles over the weekend to reach spending deal

Susan Ferrechio · December 5, 2015 5:01 am