Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Slow start for Chicago private infrastructure plan

Jason Keyser · May 16, 2014 6:48 pm

Michigan has $616 million less; tax cut off table

David Eggert · May 15, 2014 11:34 pm

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.:ÃÂ "Instead of preserving the Senate's prerogatives, they've systemically weakened or destroyed them. They've turned the Senate into a graveyard of good ideas, and open, Democratic debate."ÃÂ (AP Photo)

Republicans protest power struggle in Senate by blocking tax cut bill

Susan Ferrechio · May 15, 2014 9:01 pm

President Barack Obama speaks near the base of the Tappan Zee Bridge, Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in Tarrytown, N.Y. Obama is calling on Congress to pass a $302 billion transportation infrastructure bill that White House officials say would support millions of jobs while repairing the nation's crumbling roads and bridges. White House officials are touting the $3.9 billion Tappan Zee Bridge Replacement Project as a model for an expedited permitting and review process.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Senate panel approves 6-year highway bill

Joan Lowy · May 15, 2014 4:52 pm

Construction crews use barges and cranes as work continues on a replacement for the 58-year-old Tappan Zee Bridge spanning the Hudson River, Tuesday, May 13, 2014, near Tarrytown, N.Y. On Wednesday, President Barack Obama plans to speak by the bridge just north of New York City to press his case that a key federal government fund used to pay for the nation's roads, bridges and ports is running dry and that the economy would be damaged if it is not replenished. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

The tricky politics of infrastructure spending

Brian Hughes · May 15, 2014 4:00 am

Gov. Pat McCrory and his top financial aide described the governor's $21 billion state budget proposal for the coming year Wednesday by highlighting what's absent in his spending plan about as much as what's included. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Pat McCrory unveils $21b North Carolina budget for next year

Associated Press · May 15, 2014 4:00 am

Auguste Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker" is shown outside The Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit. Valuable art is back on the docket in Detroit's bankruptcy case. A judge is holding a hearing Thursday, May 15, 2014 on many issues, including a request by some creditors to force the city to work on ways to make money from art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Detroit bankruptcy creditors want access to art

Associated Press · May 15, 2014 4:00 am

President Barack Obama speaks to the media at the Washington Irving Boat Club in Tarrytown, N.Y., Wednesday, May 14, 2014. The President spoke about the need for Congress to fund road and bridge improvements across the nation. (AP Photo/Journal News, Seth Harrison, Pool)

Obama: GOP captured by rigid ideology of ‘no’

Washington Examiner · May 15, 2014 12:28 am

FILE -- In this June 25, 2013 file photo, Correctional Officer Stella Miles stands in one of the secure inmate-patient housing units of the new California Correctional Health Care Facility in Stockton, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown is seeking millions of dollars in his revised 2014-15 state budget plan to correct problems in the recently constructed $839 million facility the can treat up to 1,720 inmate-patients. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Brown seeks money for troubled prison medical unit

Washington Examiner · May 14, 2014 10:44 pm

Budget plan calls for more funds for child welfare

Washington Examiner · May 14, 2014 8:23 pm

Former President Bill Clinton answers questions from Gwen Ifill of PBS NewsHour at the 2014 Fiscal Summit organized by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation in Washington, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Lawmakers and policy experts discussed America's long term debt and economic future. (AP Photo)

Deficit hawks press ahead despite obstacles

Washington Examiner · May 14, 2014 6:20 pm

Anti-tax group OK with closing tax law loophole

Washington Examiner · May 14, 2014 5:29 pm