Tag: Joseph Lawler

Industry group worried about plans for higher capital and elimination of regime for ending failed banks. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Bankers spell out concerns with GOP finance reform bill

Joseph Lawler · July 18, 2016 6:38 pm

The effort, led by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi and bipartisan interlocutors, is not an attempt to reach a grand bargain or solve any of the fiscal problems that face the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Return to supercommittee mulled in Senate

Joseph Lawler · July 17, 2016 4:01 am

The federal budget deficit will be $600 billion for fiscal year 2016, the White House Office of Management said Friday in its update to the president's budget documents. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

White House sees $600 billion budget deficit in FY 2016

Joseph Lawler · July 15, 2016 2:56 pm

On Friday, the Labor Department reports on U.S. consumer prices for June. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Rising rents, medical costs push core inflation to highest levels of the recovery in June

Joseph Lawler · July 15, 2016 12:32 pm

Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

GOP lawmaker proposes controversial tax

Joseph Lawler · July 14, 2016 10:44 pm

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is in litigation with former Trump University students who have charged that the company defrauded them. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Democrats want feds to stop future Trump University

Joseph Lawler · July 14, 2016 5:51 pm

The Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits the week before. Economists had expected a tick in jobless claims up to 265,000. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Jobless claims hold steady at ultra-low 254,000

Joseph Lawler · July 14, 2016 12:32 pm

Discussing the possible areas of agreement on the Senate floor Wednesday, Mike Enzi said his committee stood ready to introduce legislation for bipartisan consideration. (AP Photo)

Budget reforms would end Senate vote-a-rama

Joseph Lawler · July 14, 2016 4:01 am

Rep. Maxine Waters says lawmakers are being unpatriotic in undermining Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Waters questions GOP patriotism in seeking to stop Boeing sales to Iran

Joseph Lawler · July 13, 2016 9:28 pm

The bill's author, Rep. Reid Ribble of Wisconsin, has said he will retire at the end of this year. (Pete Marovich/Bloomberg, File)

Republican introduces Social Security reform that would raise revenue

Joseph Lawler · July 13, 2016 7:51 pm

Hensarling: HUD chief Julian Castro changed rules for selling distressed mortgages to favor nonprofits. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Possible Clinton VP pick grilled over mortgage deals

Joseph Lawler · July 13, 2016 4:30 pm

Freedom Partners, a group that advocates free-market policies and has been linked to the billionaire brothers who run Koch Industries, estimated that the gross federal debt will be nearly a quarter higher in 2040 than the Congressional Budget Office estimated earlier Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Koch-linked group argues debt is rising faster than feds estimate

Joseph Lawler · July 12, 2016 7:45 pm