Tag: Budgets and Deficits

"This new Obama power grab is the greatest threat to freedom since King George third," Gingrich tweeted. (AP/Cliff Owen)

Gingrich wants to block Obama’s executive actions

Susan Ferrechio · December 4, 2014 3:26 am

"I am disappointed the White House blocked a bipartisan, permanent solution that would have given businesses and their employees the certainty they need to grow and hire," House Speaker John Boehner said. (AP File Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes short-term tax cut package

Susan Ferrechio · December 4, 2014 12:07 am

Lael Brainard, right, foundering director of Brookings Global Economy and Development Program, sits with Vinod Khosia, left, founder of Khosia Ventures, left, and other business, labor and academic leaders during an economic discussion with Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., in Pittsburgh, Thursday, June 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Too early to tell if new financial rules are good enough: Fed governor

Joseph Lawler · December 3, 2014 9:07 pm

The federal government will lose an estimated $33.6 billion in corporate tax revenue without legislation to stop U.S. businesses from shifting their headquarters overseas, according to Congress' official tax scorekeeper. (iStock Photo)

Federal tab for corporate inversions rises to $33 billion

Joseph Lawler · December 3, 2014 7:25 pm

Obama lays out tax reform demands

Brian Hughes · December 3, 2014 6:06 pm

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and the committee's ranking Republican, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, said in a joint statement that the House is expected to pass the bill without changes by the end of the week and they would ask the Senate to take it up next week without allowing amendments.Â (AP Photo)

National Security

Congressional negotiators agree to hold line on military pay

Charles Hoskinson · December 3, 2014 4:44 pm

Obama to host McConnell at the White House

Brian Hughes · December 3, 2014 2:50 pm

The Export-Import Bank debate ties into knots the reasoning of a certain type of liberal.Â (Alex Wong/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

Reauthorizing Export-Import Bank is a waste of time

Timothy P. Carney · December 3, 2014 2:38 pm

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., left, and Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo. are both likely candidates to be the new chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. (Getty images)

Sessions could wield Budget gavel as a populist cudgel

Timothy P. Carney · December 3, 2014 10:01 am

Facing labor market drought, Obama squeezes the stones for water

Washington Examiner · December 3, 2014 10:00 am

Energy and Environment

GOP hoists ax over green tax break

Zack Colman · December 3, 2014 10:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Dynamic scoring is based in reality

Jason Russell · December 3, 2014 10:00 am