Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Obama to press for action on transportation funds

Jim Kuhnhenn · July 14, 2014 10:52 pm

FILE- Retiree Evelyn Smith, left, protests near the federal courthouse in Detroit on July 3, 2014. Ballots submitted by city workers, retirees, pensioners and other creditors likely will determine how quickly Detroit exits its historic bankruptcy. On Monday, July 14, 2014, city lawyer Heather Lennox told federal Judge Steven Rhodes that the results of voting by retirees on a proposed bankruptcy settlement should be reported the week of July 21, 2014. General retirees would see a 4.5 percent cut and also lose annual inflation adjustments. Police officers and firefighters would lose a portion of their annual cost-of-living payment. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

‘Complicated’ Detroit bankruptcy vote out July 21

Ed White · July 14, 2014 10:47 pm

Democrats and Republicans are fighting over how to fund highway repair projects this summer. (Thinkstock)

White House backs GOP highway bill, putting it at odds with Democrats

Brian Hughes · July 14, 2014 10:24 pm

A U.S. veteran with post-traumatic stress sits in a segregated holding pen at the Cook County Jail after he was arrested on a narcotics charge in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

U.S. jails struggle with role as makeshift asylums

adam-geller · July 14, 2014 1:20 pm

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett fields questions from the media during a news conference Thursday, July 10, 2014, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)

Tom Corbett veto exposes GOP divisions in Harrisburg

Mark Scolforo · July 14, 2014 1:18 pm

Gov. Robert Bentley's opposition to new state taxes during his first term could change in a second term. (AP)

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley looking at all possibilities on revenue

Phillip Rawls · July 14, 2014 1:16 pm

Obama wants to make this week all about infrastructure

Brian Hughes · July 14, 2014 11:46 am

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HUD program, meant to help, actually hurts, IG reports

Kelly Cohen · July 13, 2014 5:31 pm

National Security

New York disburses $185M in security funding

Washington Examiner · July 12, 2014 1:31 pm

Marchers held signs as they made their way to Department of Homeland Security offices, protesting immigration policies Thursday, July 10, 2014, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/El Paso Times, Victor Calzada)

House chairman: $3.7B border request ‘too much’

Erica Werner · July 12, 2014 12:02 am

Cutoff passes in Detroit bankruptcy creditor vote

Washington Examiner · July 11, 2014 10:09 pm

FILE - In this March 27, 2012 file photo, Illinois Rep. Fred Crespo, D-Hoffman Estates, is seen on the House floor at the state Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Some Illinois lawmakers are taking matters into their own hands after the Legislature moved for the first time in years not to take furlough days to save taxpayer dollars. Crespo is among those who plan to donate to charity the minimum $3,100 in additional money they'll see in their paychecks this year. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Some Illinois lawmakers voluntarily giving up pay

Kerry Lester · July 11, 2014 8:02 pm