Tag: Budgets and Deficits

One effect of the last shutdown was the closing of many national parks and monuments -- another was the unwillingness of lawmakers to let it happen again. (Getty images/Mark Wilson)

WH prepares feds for shutdown

Brian Hughes · December 11, 2014 11:34 pm

Corporations based in the United States have to endure the highest statutory corporate income tax rate in the developed world. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Yes, U.S. corporations are over-taxed

Jason Russell · December 11, 2014 11:06 pm

Cromnibus bursts at the seams with special-interest goodies

Timothy P. Carney · December 11, 2014 10:39 pm

President Obama worked the phones late Thursday in an attempt to get Democrats to support a spending bill that has yet to receive enough support to avoid a government shutdown. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama working phones to build support for spending bill

Brian Hughes · December 11, 2014 10:22 pm

"With this bill, the exposure and the recourse is with the U.S. taxpayer," Pelosi said. "Just plain wrong." (AP/J.Scott Applewhite)

Pelosi will vote against $1.1t spending measure

Susan Ferrechio · December 11, 2014 9:24 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks at a news briefing on Capitol Hill, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Pelosi: Democrats have leverage on spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · December 11, 2014 8:51 pm

Beltway Confidential

Who’s getting rich in Washington this week? Blue Cross, multinational companies, and banks

Timothy P. Carney · December 11, 2014 8:51 pm

Elizabeth Warren fights Senate bill with conservative bloggers

Becket Adams · December 11, 2014 8:12 pm

"I don't know that we've even scratched the surface on the degree of difficulty we face when it comes to tax reform," Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said Thursday. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Here’s how Senate Republicans plan to reform the tax code

Jason Russell · December 11, 2014 8:04 pm

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Republicans hit pause button on spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · December 11, 2014 7:41 pm

"I don't know that we've even scratched the surface on the degree of difficulty we face when it comes to tax reform," Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said Thursday. (AP Photo)

Hatch warns of stacked odds against tax reform

Joseph Lawler · December 11, 2014 7:06 pm

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Tom Coburn puts the breaks on Senate action

Sean Lengell · December 11, 2014 6:31 pm