Tag: Spending

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A year of waste in review: 2013’s worst examples of taxpayer spending on the unused, unneeded and nonexistent

Michal Conger · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

Consumer sentiment indices are often regarded as a leading indication for spending. (AP Photo)

Consumer sentiment rebounds heading into 2014

Joseph Lawler · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

United States Enrichment Corp. is trying to attract private investment against another $750 million it expects to receive from DOE, money the government refuses to discuss.

Energy and Environment

Energy Department gives troubled company $30 million two days after its bankruptcy announcement

Luke Rosiak · December 30, 2013 5:00 am

Twilight of the Sequester

Fred Barnes · December 23, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama holds hands with his daughters Malia, left, and Sasha, right, as they leave Sea Life Park in Waimanalo, Hawaii, in December 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama’s 17-day trip to Hawaii costs taxpayers $4M

Susan Crabtree · December 19, 2013 5:00 am

A two-year federal budget deal easily cleared a critical procedural hurdle in the Senate Tuesday morning, setting up likely passage of legislation that will help steer Congress away from another government shutdown in 2014. (AP Photo)

Budget deal easily clears key procedural vote in Senate

Susan Ferrechio · December 17, 2013 5:00 am

Federal government has spent nearly $1 million on romance

Washington Examiner · December 17, 2013 5:00 am

Budget deal may signal era of tiny achievements

Associated Press, Charles Babington · December 16, 2013 8:07 am

Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., listens to testimony during a budget conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 13. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Patty Murray: The self-described ‘mom in tennis shoes’ rises to the Senate’s leadership circle

Sean Lengell · December 13, 2013 5:00 am

Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio speaks during a tribute to South African leader Nelson Mandela at the National Action Network headquarters, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. South Africa's first black president died Thursday after a long illness. He was 95. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Obama to host newly-elected mayors at White House

Brian Hughes · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., is using the budget deal to get rid of a Senate procedure that strengthens the Republican minority. (Photo: AP photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Jeff Sessions says budget deal ‘would strip a key protection for Senate minority rights’

Joel Gehrke · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

Remembering the Needy of K Street

Geoffrey Norman · December 11, 2013 8:01 pm