Congress

Budget Battles

  • U.S. Cities Get Fleeced in Libor Scandal

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    In the two decades before the 2008 financial collapse, the investment banking industry sidled up to state and local finance officials with an offer they couldn’t refuse. Instead of issuing plain...

  • As election approaches, candidates beef up spending

    As election approaches, candidates beef up spending

    By Alina Selyukh and Alexander Cohen, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than four months until the U.S. presidential election, Republican candidate Mitt Romney's campaign is beefing up on personnel and investing more cash internally as outside...

  • GSA Throws a $270,000 Party with Your Tax Dollars

    By Lisa Rein, The Washington Post

    Four weeks after an $823,000 spending spree at a Las Vegas hotel, the General Services Administration spent more than $270,000 on a one-day, taxpayer-funded ceremony to reward good performers that...

  • GOP Veepstakes: Why Romney Needs a Pit Bill

    By Eric Pianin and Maureen Mackey

    Mitt Romney said this week that the running mate he was looking for could have different “perspectives and skills” than his own. But given the current drift of the bruising presidential campaign,...

  • Top Republicans Denounce Attack on Clinton Aide

    By Thomas Ferraro, Reuters

    The top Republican in the Congress on Thursday criticized Representative Michele Bachmann and four other fellow House Republicans for making "pretty dangerous" accusations when they questioned the...