Tag: Budgets and Deficits

The annual deficit was $48 billion smaller than in fiscal 2014.Â (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

2015 deficit smallest since before recession

Joseph Lawler · October 7, 2015 10:02 pm

Several statistics suggested indicate a problem with endowments and compensation for university officials.Â (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP eyes ending tax breaks for university endowments

Joseph Lawler · October 7, 2015 5:40 pm

Republican presidential candidate Carly FiorinaÂ pledged to submit a balanced budget during her first term. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Fiorina pledges balanced budget during first term

Ariel Cohen · October 7, 2015 1:38 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellÂ speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Energy and Environment

McConnell looks to pick a fight with Dems over energy

John Siciliano · October 6, 2015 7:35 pm

Pictured above, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles near the Kuwaiti border as part of the last U.S. military convoy to leave Iraq Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011.Â Peter Lichtenbaum, a partner at Covington and Burling, said that in the past decade of war, American lives were needlessly lost because transferring commercial technology to counter roadside bombs to the military took too long. (AP Photo)

National Security

Pentagon acquisition reform can save lives, experts say

Jacqueline Klimas · October 5, 2015 7:29 pm

The authorization for highway and transit spending is set to expire at the end of October following its latest $8 billion bailout in July.Â (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Don’t make the highway funding problem worse

Michael Sargent · October 5, 2015 5:00 am

Schools can get their default rates adjusted through an appeals process to the department. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Republicans turn a skeptical eye on effects of federal college aid

Joseph Lawler · October 4, 2015 4:01 am

The act matches Obama's requested level, but puts $89 billion in a war fund not subject to spending caps. (Najim Rahim via AP, File)

National Security

Critics: Defense bill veto harms national security

Jacqueline Klimas · October 3, 2015 3:41 pm

President Obama pauses during a news conference in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama: Congress needs to stop flirting with a shutdown

Barbara Boland · October 3, 2015 3:05 pm

President Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama says he’s done signing short-term spending bills

Nicole Duran · October 2, 2015 9:52 pm

Energy and Environment

3 days plus 3 EPA regs equals $6 billion in new costs

Kyle Feldscher · October 2, 2015 4:01 am

Federal Reserve finds that people with high credit scores are better at relationships.

Hey, babe, what’s your credit score?

Joseph Lawler · October 1, 2015 7:58 pm