Budget Battles
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Sniping Already Starting Over Baltimore Bridge Reconstruction Costs
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New Poll Finds Liberals and Conservatives Agree: Tax the Super-Rich
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Biden Vows US Will Pay to Rebuild Collapsed Baltimore Bridge
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How Congress Wasted ‘Months of Precious Time’ on the 2024 Spending Bills
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Senate Struggles to Avert Shutdown, Speaker Johnson Faces Revolt
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Long-Delayed $1.2 Trillion Spending Package Zooms to the Finish Line
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Debt Will Hit Record High This Decade, CBO Warns
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Five Debate Moments that Changed Elections
By Robert Speel, The ConversationEvery presidential election year in my American Political Campaigns and Elections course, I get an opportunity to spend a full lecture discussing with students some of the famous moments from...
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Lois Lerner Is Cleared, Sparking Conservative Fury
By Rob GarverConcluding that “poor management is not a crime,” the Justice Department on Friday informed members of Congress that it would not be filing criminal charges against anyone in what has become known as...
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GOP Leaders Take on Far Right Pressure Groups
By Eric PianinThere have been plenty of theories about why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) strode onstage at a conservative gathering late last week carrying a rifle. Ostensibly, McConnell, the 72-...
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Romney: If Hillary Runs, She Won’t Need Bill
By Thomas Ferraro, ReutersFailed 2012 U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said on Sunday he expects Hillary Clinton to win or lose the White House on her record, not that of her husband, former Democratic...
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Voters Give a Thumbs-Down to Their Own Lawmakers
By Eric PianinIn another sign of public outrage over a dysfunctional and politically divided Congress, a record low percentage of registered voters now say their own House member deserves another chance while even...
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Huckabee Must Have Missed the Memo About The Sexes
By Eric PianinFormer Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee must have missed the memo. Last month, national Republican officials and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) began offering lawmakers sensitivity training and...
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Analysts Dubious About Christie’s Presidential Hopes
By Rob GarverNew Jersey Governor Chris Christie left the door open to a presidential run t hius inauguration Tuesday, but emerging scandals may leave him hamstrung before the race even begins.
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Dems’ Prospects of Winning the House Get Dimmer
By Eric PianinThe Democrats’ prospects for winning back control of the House this fall never were good to begin with, but the sudden rash of announced retirements of veteran Democrats will make that effort even...
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Two Politicians Who Beat Scandal – And One Who Didn’t
Christie Can Use These Pols ‘Comeback Playbooks’
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Christie Scandal Opens Door to Far Right GOP Hopefuls
By Eric Pianin and Rob GarverIn the space of a single day, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie went from prospective front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 to damaged goods. His rivals just got a big...
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McConnell Disses and Hisses as ‘Cliff Talks’ Begin
By Eric Pianinenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., continued to sound a discordant partisan note as congressional leaders prepare for their first meeting with President Obama on Friday to begin...
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Scandal Complicates Obama's Plan to Reshape Cabinet
By ReutersA week after winning a second term, President Barack Obama faces a widening scandal within his national security team that complicates plans to reshape his Cabinet and could reverberate through...
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Tax Hikes Worthless Without Entitlement Reform
By Liz PeekJust this week Americans received another warning shot across the bow: in October the federal deficit for one month rose to $120 billion , higher than expected, up from $98 billion a year ago. Simply...
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October Budget Deficit of $120B Tops Forecast
By ReutersThe budget deficit rose in October, the first month of fiscal year 2013, as looming negotiations over expiring tax cuts and imminent spending reductions dominated the post-election political...
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Van Hollen Says Tax-Cut Growth is ‘Pixie-Dust Theory’
By Eric PianinThe White House and Democrats are encouraged by Republican House Speaker John Boehner’s repeated statements that he and other GOP leaders would support increased revenues as part of a comprehensive...