Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks to reporters outside the Senate chamber following a luncheon for Republican members of the Senate on Jan. 27, 2015, in Washington. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty images)

Energy and Environment

Taming tempers key to passing EPA, Interior spending bill, says Sen. Lisa Murkowski

Zack Colman · February 5, 2015 9:59 pm

White House budget director Shaun Donovan said Thursday that he is optimistic about reaching a deal on lifting caps on government spending after testifying on President Obama's budget before the Republican-led Congress this week. (Michael Bonfigli/The Christian Science Monitor)

White House budget director: There’s ‘real potential’ for a sequestration deal

Joseph Lawler · February 5, 2015 4:43 pm

Republican Gov. Bill Haslam is greeted by lawmakers as he leeaves the House chamber in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Haslam spoke to a joint assembly of the General Assembly to promote his Insure Tennessee proposal to extend health coverage to 280,000 low-income residents. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

Tennessee rejects Medicaid expansion

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 4, 2015 11:53 pm

Director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Richard Cordray testifies during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee Sept. 12, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty images)

House passes bill targeting CFPB, regulations

Joseph Lawler · February 4, 2015 10:22 pm

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$6,099,996,642,000: Government spent more per earner than median earnings

Terence Jeffrey · February 4, 2015 6:19 pm

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, before the Senate Armed Services Committee. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

National Security

Navy official: 2016 budget request in line with new strategy

Tara Copp · February 4, 2015 5:44 pm

Report: Only France has higher corporate tax than US, by just 0.7%

Paul Bedard · February 4, 2015 5:41 pm

"I'd like to go toe to toe with Obama ... because what the president has done is blatantly unconstitutional," Sen. John Boozman said Tuesday. (AP)

Republicans weigh how far to push Obama on DHS funding

Susan Ferrechio · February 4, 2015 10:00 am

"Upholding our sacred obligation [to the military] does not mean resisting change at every turn," said McCain.

National Security

Lawmakers keep ‘open mind’ on reforms to military benefits

Tara Copp · February 3, 2015 10:55 pm

A U.S. Postal service employee loads his van as he prepares to leave the loading dock to deliver mail from the Los Feliz Post Office.

Poor customer service at post office blamed on unions

Sean Higgins · February 3, 2015 10:52 pm

Surrender? Obama cuts immunization funding for poor $50 million

Paul Bedard · February 3, 2015 7:34 pm

Members of the US Army 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, transport heavy combat equipment including Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Stryker Armored Vehicles at the railway station near the Rukla military base in Lithuania, on October 4, 2014. (PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/Getty Ima

National Security

Pentagon: Tight budgets hurting ability to handle threats

Charles Hoskinson · February 3, 2015 6:22 pm