Tag: Budgets and Deficits

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Healthcare piles up deficits

Ethan Barton · December 19, 2014 10:00 am

Report: Immigrant workers account for all employment growth since 2007

Susan Ferrechio · December 19, 2014 6:00 am

Federal Reserve Law Enforcement officers stand outside the Federal Reserve September 16, 2008 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty images)

Fed delays major part of Volcker Rule

Joseph Lawler · December 18, 2014 10:59 pm

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew (C) speaks during an open session of a Financial Stability Oversight Council meeting December 18, 2014 at the Treasury Department in Washington, DC. The FSOC received updates on financial stability during the open session. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty images)

Asset management firms on the hot seat

Joseph Lawler · December 18, 2014 7:39 pm

Crew members with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. work on a drilling platform in 2009 on a Weld County farm near Mead, Colo. Anadarko agreed to pay a record settlement of more than $5 billion to resolve environmental claims against subsidiary Kerr-McGee Corp. (AP Photo)

One-year bill for EPA enforcement: $10.3 billion

Paul Bedard · December 18, 2014 5:42 pm

Beltway Confidential

Six ways Enzi could cut spending

Jason Russell · December 18, 2014 5:30 pm

Pedestrians walk past the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, May 10, 2013. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty images)

VA praised disgraced contract official who went on to top Treasury job

Luke Rosiak · December 18, 2014 10:00 am

‘Luster gone’ for appropriations panel

Sean Lengell · December 18, 2014 10:00 am

The motivation behind GOP leaders’ push to pass CRomnibus in the lame duck

David M. Drucker · December 18, 2014 10:00 am

"The reason to get this budget done is so that the appropriators can get started," Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi said Thursday on the House floor. (AP Photo)Â

Sessions gives way to Enzi for Budget gavel

David M. Drucker · December 17, 2014 10:50 pm

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee holds a microphone as he speaks Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, at REI's flagship store in Seattle. Inslee was at the store to propose a cap-and-trade program to require the state's largest industrial polluters to pay for every ton of carbon they release. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Energy and Environment

Washington governor proposes cap-and-trade

Zack Colman · December 17, 2014 10:08 pm

FITARA would require agencies to review their existing technology systems to rid it of duplication or waste. (iStock Photo)

Congress passes measure to reduce wasteful information technology investments

Sarah Bedford · December 17, 2014 9:47 pm