Obama Administration

The House voted Wednesday to sustain President Obama's veto of a Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded. Huh? Confused? Why wasn't this...

President Obama has just proposed a fee on financial firms, stating his commitment “to recover every single dime the American people are owed.” The...

According to the Associated Press, President Obama has encouraged House leaders to support the Senate's excise tax on high-cost insurance plans. As we...

Today’s New York Times article on the difficulty President Obama faces in keeping his promise about deficit reduction and tax cuts, Promise to Trim...

Congress will leave town for the holidays without completing some serious fiscal business, but with a full agenda for next year. The House and Senate...

Yesterday, on the heels of President Obama signing a $1.1 trillion "minibus" CRFB released a paper on the importance of controlling discretionary...

There's an intriguing passage in the White House press release on President Obama's stimulus speech at Brookings yesterday: " An overall approach to...

Today, in a speech at the Brookings Institution, President Obama outlined a strategy designed to accelerate job growth. In particular, he outlined...

UPDATE: Stan Collender thinks we might be making ice mountains out of snow hills. According to a number of news reports, President Obama has begun...

The message from the end of the year deficit number is clear: we must start planning how to get the deficit under control. A $1.4 TRILLION deficit is...

Today PERAB, otherwise known as the Tax Reform Subcommittee of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, is holding a meeting focusing on tax...

A few minutes ago, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to discuss health care reform. Although he talked about a wide array of...