Tag: Budgets and Deficits

One-third of the insurers created in 2014 have announced they will close. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Premiums for worker health plans rise 4 percent in 2015

Robert King · September 22, 2015 5:06 pm

Demographic changes will worsen what Department of Housing and Urban Development head Julian Castro has termed an "affordable housing crisis." (AP File Photo)

Study: Affordable housing ‘crisis’ will get worse

Joseph Lawler · September 21, 2015 11:15 pm

Democrats said the panel has failed to uncover evidence that Hillary Clinton told first responders to stand down, nor have they found anything to suggest that she dismissed requests for more security in the weeks leading up to the terror attack. (AP Photo)

Dems: Planned Parenthood hearing is a shutdown ploy

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 21, 2015 8:44 pm

"There is actually a total of nine now currently active in Syria," Air Force Col. Pat Ryder told reporters. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Beltway Confidential

$500m later, there are enough U.S.-trained Syrian fighters to field a baseball team

David Freddoso · September 21, 2015 8:22 pm

Dissatisfaction with the Republican Party's leadership has grown in some circles. (AP file)

GOP Rep: Leadership has lost its ‘teeth,’ ‘nails, ‘fight’

Barbara Boland · September 20, 2015 5:34 pm

President Obama will sign an imperfect bill funding the government in order to avoid shutting down the federal government. (AP Photo)

Obama ready to sign imperfect spending bill

Nicole Duran · September 18, 2015 6:44 pm

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R., Wash., center, speaks during a news conference on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Also in attendance: Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., right, and other Republicans. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

House votes to defund Planned Parenthood

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 18, 2015 4:58 pm

Republicans split on how to get a spending deal

Susan Ferrechio · September 18, 2015 4:01 am

In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, photo, workers with Environmental Restoration take samples of contents of drums that had been abandoned at the former Ector Drum site in Odessa, Texas. (Mark Sterkell/Odessa American via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

Energy and Environment

Report: EPA failing to manage billions in grants

Kyle Feldscher · September 17, 2015 10:32 pm

Pelosi: GOP goal is to stop family planning

Susan Ferrechio · September 17, 2015 4:32 pm

House Minority Leader Pelosi said a GOP-created panel aimed at investigating the Benghazi attacks may be violating House ethics rules. (AP Photo)

Pelosi warns Republicans: Veto pen gives us leverage

Susan Ferrechio · September 17, 2015 4:18 pm

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it expects 10 million people to sign up for Obamacare coverage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Gap between uninsured whites and minorities reduced

Robert King · September 16, 2015 9:06 pm