Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and the committee's ranking Republican, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, said in a joint statement that the House is expected to pass the bill without changes by the end of the week and they would ask the Senate to take it up next week without allowing amendments.Â (AP Photo)

National Security

Congressional negotiators agree to hold line on military pay

Charles Hoskinson · December 3, 2014 4:44 pm

Obama to host McConnell at the White House

Obama to host McConnell at the White House

Brian Hughes · December 3, 2014 2:50 pm

The Export-Import Bank debate ties into knots the reasoning of a certain type of liberal.Â (Alex Wong/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

Reauthorizing Export-Import Bank is a waste of time

Timothy P. Carney · December 3, 2014 2:38 pm

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., left, and Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo. are both likely candidates to be the new chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. (Getty images)

Sessions could wield Budget gavel as a populist cudgel

Timothy P. Carney · December 3, 2014 10:01 am

Facing labor market drought, Obama squeezes the stones for water

Facing labor market drought, Obama squeezes the stones for water

Washington Examiner · December 3, 2014 10:00 am

GOP hoists ax over green tax break

Energy and Environment

GOP hoists ax over green tax break

Zack Colman · December 3, 2014 10:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Dynamic scoring is based in reality

Jason Russell · December 3, 2014 10:00 am

President Barack Obama listens to Dr. Nancy Sullivan of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a tour of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama presses Congress on Ebola funding

Brian Hughes · December 2, 2014 11:04 pm

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama said the House plan does nothing to stop Obama's executive action, which would allow more than 4 million people now living here illegally to apply for work permits and eventually obtain Social Security and Medicare benefits. (Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty images)

Sessions denounces House GOP plan to fund government

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 10:15 pm

German soldiers hoisting the German army flag, Sept. 19, 1939 in front of the City Hall of Gdynia, Poland, the seat of the civil administration. (AP Photo)

House votes to end benefits for Nazis

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 9:15 pm

"It's kind of unfortunate that they are talking about not doing Homeland Security," Reid told reporters on Tuesday. "But, that's the way it is." (Washington Examiner File Photo/Graeme Jennings)

Reid backs House funding plan

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 9:03 pm

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House will vote on short-term tax cut deal Wednesday

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 8:19 pm