Over the weekend, President Obama made his widely anticipated remarks on the conflict of Syria, making his case for taking military action against the...

Although Congress itself had been out of session prior to this week, some news last week came as the latest talks between the White House and a small...

Last Friday, President Obama sent a letter to Congress calling for a 1 percent pay raise for federal civilian workers next year. The White House...

This is the fifth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Last...

In today's Washington Post, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta criticizes the limited effort so far in replacing sequestration. Panetta...

With Congress returning to DC, eyes are turning towards the fiscal speed bumps that they will face in the fall: funding the government, raising the...

It's September and that means we've entered the final month of the FY 2013 continuing resolution. While the threat of a possible government shutdown...

In an op-ed in POLITICO, former Senate Budget Committee staffer James Carter and Fiscal Commission adviser Paul Weinstein advised lawmakers to look...

Naturally, lawmakers are diverting their attention to resolving sequestration, the debt ceiling, and the expiring continuing resolution, but another...

Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released its annual survey on health costs, prompting a wide range of reactions from " Health Care Costs Rise...

When lawmakers return from August recess in a few weeks they will turn their attention to FY 2014 government funding, which requires appropriations to...

One area of controversy in the last election was the percentage of American households that pay no federal income tax, often cited as 47 percent. The...