Budget Battle

It's always hazardous to predict the issues that will define the next presidential selection. But leading thinkers in both parties say that events of ...

Reducing the country's $14 trillion debt is a critical national priority. While the president's plan would reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years, Rep. Ryan's plan would have no perceptible impact on the federal deficit.

When the political history of this period is written, the Medicare vote held last week will go down as the turning point that doomed Republican chances to keep control of the House in 2012.

As I reflected on my soulful experience, I realized that lessons from horse whispering can apply to our political leaders and our country, especially as we have watched the budget battle unfold.

Even if Congress cannot agree on an overall defense budget, funding for troop pay can and should be settled immediately and should not be held hostage again to partisan wrangling over other issues.

Over the weekend, the White House averted a government shutdown by largely agreeing to the GOP's terms on discretionary spending. One might see this as a bad thing, but not the White House. Advisor David Plouffe has been on the air ever since, linking Friday's capitulation with the administration's December lame duck capitulation as a great example of a governing strategy, where everyone "comes together" and more or less agrees to what John Boehner wants to do.

WASHINGTON -- Republican conservatives were the chief winners in the budget deal that forced Democrats to accept historic spending cuts they strongly ...

In the struggle over government spending for the current fiscal year, the Republicans have forced the White House and the Senate Democrats into a seri...

WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats expressed a rare touch of nonchalance Wednesday as House Republicans voted to repeal last year's health care ove...