WASHINGTON -- In a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House overwhelmingly passed a bill by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) to audit the Federal Reserve. T...

WASHINGTON -- An expansive bill to audit the Federal Reserve, sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), is headed for a vote on the House floor Wednesday....

Reading deficit reduction plans can be tricky. They must be read carefully and completely; it is easy to hide wolves and sheep in the skin of the other by using a few of the devices budget wonks have in their gimmick collections.

Every base, installation, and weapons system has its own constituency. As a result of the pressures to preserve jobs and incomes, many defense decisions are made for parochial reasons.

For a trillion dollars of wasted defense spending over ten years we got a smaller Navy and Air Force and a tiny increase in the size of the Army.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) mocked the Federal Reserve in what is best described as a standup comedy routine on the floor of the House of Representativ...

A trio of prominent economists said in an email to HuffPost on Friday that the compromised version of an amendment to audit the Federal Reserve would ...

Since it's the Friday after month's-end, the new monthly unemployment numbers were released today. Which adds another bar to the "bikini bottom" char...

The Obama administration offered to date its most direct opposition to an amendment to Wall Street reform legislation that would allow for an audit of...

A Senate amendment to open the Federal Reserve to a government audit continued to pick up support on Tuesday. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who voted ...

As unusual a coalition as can be crafted in the Senate plans to fight for an amendment to the Wall Street reform bill that would open the Federal Rese...

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger On Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed a financial reform package that includes a handful of important reforms,...

While the financial reform bill passed by the Senate does not address the root causes of the financial collapse, it's not entirely worthless, accordin...