Via The Associated Press, Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.), the chairman of the House Budget Committee who just this week announced his intention to run for a 15th term, says that he’s in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. The symptoms, he told the AP, are “really more of More…
The House Budget Committee this afternoon approved a budget reconciliation bill that jumpstarts the process that Democrats hope will end in the Senate passing sweeping health care reforms by a simple majority.
The reconciliation bill, which will be the vehicle for the health care “fixes” the Democrats will More…
President Obama made headlines last month when he announced a budget wishlist eliminating a number of budget gimmicks used by Washington policymakers to, in effect, purposefully lie to the country about how much the government will collect and spend.
Breaking from previous administrations, Obama’s budget acknowledged that fighting the More…
Democratic leaders, who hope to inject billions more borrowed dollars into the economy before the end of the year, got a little boost from the chairman of the Federal Reserve on Monday.
Appearing before the House Budget Committee, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke emphasized the importance of the recently enacted $700-billion More…
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