Tag: Budgets and Deficits

FILE - This April 14, 2014 file photo shows a section of the I-75 Phase II modernization project under way in Dayton, Ohio. The Senate is set to take up legislation to keep federal highway money flowing to states, with just three days left before the government plans to start slowing down payments. The House passed a $10.8 billion bill last week that would pay for highway and transit aid through the end of May 2015 if transportation spending is maintained at current levels. Under a schedule outlined by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., the Senate would take up that bill Tuesday. (AP Photo/Skip Peterson, File)

Senate passes highway bill, sends it back to House

Joan Lowy · July 30, 2014 12:38 am

FILE - In this July 24, 2014, file photo, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks with the media on Capitol Hill in Washington. While much of the rest of the world watches the Gaza war in horror and scrambles for a cease-fire, U.S. lawmakers are pressing the Obama administration to take no action that puts pressure on Israel to halt its military operations. Boehner said Monday, July 28, the administration should "stand with Israel, not just as a broker or observer but as a strong partner." (AP Photo/File)

National Security

Lawmakers struggle to seal $225M Iron Dome package

BRADLEY KLAPPERDONNA CASSATA · July 29, 2014 8:50 pm

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, arrives for a meeting of the Republican Conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House to vote on slimmed-down bill for border

Erica Werner · July 29, 2014 8:47 pm

Detroit water department placed in mayor’s hands

Corey Williams · July 29, 2014 7:05 pm

NYU med center to get $1B in Sandy funding

Washington Examiner · July 29, 2014 5:25 pm

Eight things in the Veterans Affairs reform deal

Susan Ferrechio · July 29, 2014 9:00 am

An Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from Gaza Strip in the costal city of Ashkelon, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

How Harry Reid hopes to save funding for Israel from August gridlock

David M. Drucker · July 28, 2014 8:29 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., co-authored a $17 billion plan to overhaul the way the nationâs veterans obtain medical care, including a $10 billion provision to privatize services to help shorten long wait times. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Lawmakers unveil $17 billion bill to reform Veterans Affairs

Susan Ferrechio · July 28, 2014 6:06 pm

A llong-awaited commuter light rail project begins on Woodward Avenue in Detroit on Monday, July 28, 2014. A large portion of Woodward Avenue was closed off Monday morning while workers began cutting concrete. Work on the $137 million, 3.3-mile line project, which is expected to take two years and stretch from downtown to New Center, will at times shut down parts of Woodward and two interstate bridges. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT MBO (REV-SHARE)

Construction begins on Detroit light rail project

Washington Examiner · July 28, 2014 4:30 pm

Report for Detroit creditor boosts value of art

Washington Examiner · July 28, 2014 3:09 pm

New York City's pension funds ended the latest fiscal year with a record-high value of $160.5 billion, City Comptroller Scott Stringer said Monday. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, Pool)

NYC pension funds at $160.5 billion

Associated Press · July 28, 2014 1:10 pm

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks at a press conference on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014, following a House GOP conference meeting. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

With days left until August recess, major legislation could be left undone

Susan Ferrechio · July 28, 2014 9:00 am