This is a pressure point that smart Democrats may want to exploit as there is talk about tax fairness and raising Social Security rates and retirement ages as we go into yet another election cycle.
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 04.23.2012
WASHINGTON — Social Security is rushing even faster toward insolvency, driven by retiring baby boomers, a weak economy and politicians' reluctan...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 04.20.2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is looking for states to experiment with unemployment insurance by letting people test a job while receivi...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 04.05.2012
WASHINGTON — IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman warned Thursday of a disastrous tax filing season next year if Congress puts off dealing with tax ...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 04.02.2012
WASHINGTON -- The individual insurance requirement that the Supreme Court is reviewing isn't the first federal mandate involving health care. There's...
AP | By JULIE PACE | Posted 04.22.2012
WASHINGTON -- Relishing a political victory, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Congress "did the right thing" by extending payroll tax cuts for...
AP | By ALAN FRAM | Posted 02.18.2012
WASHINGTON -- Bruised from the payroll tax cut brawl, congressional Republicans want to change the subject and push legislation they say would create ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.18.2012
WASHINGTON -- Congress passed the extension of the payroll tax holiday Friday, voting overwhelmingly to continue the 2 percent break and extend emerge...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.20.2012
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Harkin slammed his own president and party for hatching the payroll tax cut deal that is expected to pass Congress Friday, sayi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.17.2012
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers signed off on the final details of the bill to extend a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits Thursday, likely clearing th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.17.2012
WASHINGTON -- Republicans and Democrats disagree sharply over how many workers will wind up peeing in cups as a result of a payroll tax cut compromise...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators reached a final deal to extend the popular payroll tax cut for the rest of the year, with Republicans agreeing...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators reached a final deal to extend the popular payroll tax cut for the rest of the year, with Republicans agreeing...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.16.2012
The Republicans who are only loosely associated with the Tea Party banner may finally be realizing that there will be consequences in November for following the Tea Party mantra too far.
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 04.16.2012
LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama pitched for blue-collar jobs and then dashed for campaign cash on Wednesday, embarking on a three-day West ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.15.2012
WASHINGTON -- Despite optimism by Republican leaders and assurances Tuesday evening that congressional negotiators had reached a deal to preserve a po...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.15.2012
WASHINGTON -- A tentative deal struck by lawmakers Tuesday night may put off what seemed, just days ago, to be a highly contentious rerun of a debate ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Luke Johnson | Posted 02.14.2012
WASHINGTON -- Congress was close to a deal to extend a popular payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, according to several reports. The pending...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.14.2012
WASHINGTON -- Congress hasn't reached a deal to prevent the take-home pay for every American from shrinking 2 percent come March because Republicans w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.14.2012
WASHINGTON -- The potential Republican retreat from a hard-line stance on extending the payroll tax cut comes as GOP leaders have been quietly urging ...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 04.15.2012
By ANDREW TAYLOR, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- House-Senate talks on renewing a payroll tax cut that delivers about $20 a week to the av...
HuffingtonPost.com | Luke Johnson | Posted 02.13.2012
WASHINGTON -- House GOP leaders announced Monday they were putting forward a "backup plan" that would extend the payroll tax cut for 10 months, while ...
Posted 02.08.2012
By ANDREW TAYLOR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Republicans are looking to deny child tax credits to undocumented immigrants--refund checks av...
AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 01.20.2012
BALTIMORE -- House Republicans say a fresh push for a 1,700-mile Canada-to-Texas pipeline could be part of a new round of negotiations over extending ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.18.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Republican-led House of Representatives turned down President Obama's request to raise the debt limit Wednesday in a largely symboli...
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.17.2012