Tag: Budgets and Deficits

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 file photo, Jamie Fox listens in Trenton, N.J., after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that he has chosen Fox to be New Jersey's new transportation commissioner. Fox's nomination flew through the state Senate on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. The judiciary committee cleared him and then the full Senate confirmed him. In his confirmation hearing, Fox told senators that all options were on the table for accomplishing that goal, including a gas tax hike. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Transportation funding becomes New Jersey priority

Geoff Mulvihill · September 23, 2014 4:14 pm

In a report issued Monday, the GAO said the IRS stopped $24.2 billion in theft, but the extent of the fraud is âÅunknown.âï¿½ (iStock Photo)

IRS paid $5.2 billion in fraudulent refunds

Susan Ferrechio · September 22, 2014 4:58 pm

In this Thursday, May 29, 2014 photo, prospective buyer Mary Tuttle, right, checks out antique lighting fixtures while looking at a home with real estate broker Nancy Dowson, left, with Keller Williams Realty, in Miami Shores, Fla. The National Association of Realtors reports, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, on sales of existing homes in August. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

US existing home sales fall in August

Josh Boak · September 22, 2014 2:53 pm

Higher supply, costs cut Ohio farmers’ profits

Washington Examiner · September 22, 2014 2:19 pm

A key reason for the problem, according to the GAO: The Pentagon doesn't know how many generals and admirals it needs to lead a shrinking force. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Top brass weighs on Pentagon

Charles Hoskinson · September 22, 2014 4:00 am

The Omnibus Crime Bill caused the number of state prisoners to soar, increasing by more than 45 percent, and the number in federal prisons more than doubled. The number of inmates in American prisons and jails grew from 1.01 million in 1994 to 2.3 million today. (iStock Photo)

The many costs of the ’94 crime bill

Pat Nolan · September 21, 2014 9:00 am

Top Senate lawmakers think they have found a way to allow states and local governments to tax Internet purchases: Link online sales taxes to separate legislation prohibiting Internet access taxes and pass it in the post-election "lame duck" session of Congress.Â (iStock)

Senators look to lame-duck session to pass Internet sales tax bill

Sean Higgins · September 19, 2014 9:01 am

Boehner stresses tax reform, school choice in GOP agenda

Joseph Lawler · September 18, 2014 8:09 pm

Democratic California Rep. Jackie Speier drafted the proposal in response to a New York Times article which found that over the last few years, at least 64 foreign governments, state-controlled entities or government officials contributed at least $92 million to nearly 30 major U.S.-based researched organizations. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty images)

Bill would require scholars to disclose foreign cash

Kelly Cohen · September 18, 2014 7:08 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Poll: Americans estimate federal government wastes 51 cents on the dollar

Paul Gonzalez · September 18, 2014 5:20 pm

Paul Ryan, the presumed successor to retiring Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp if the GOP holds the House of Representatives in November, said Thursday that "there are two things that we are working on right now" to help him succeed where Camp fell short in pushing comprehensive tax reform. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Paul Ryan: We’re working to change the rules for tax reform

Joseph Lawler · September 18, 2014 3:37 pm

"The financial crisis and the Great Recession demonstrated, in a dramatic and unmistakable manner, how extraordinarily vulnerable are the large share of American families with very few assets to fall back on," Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen said Thursday. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Janet Yellen: Most American families lack savings and are ‘extraordinarily vulnerable’

Joseph Lawler · September 18, 2014 2:18 pm