WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday passed its plan to spare the military's growing budget from mandatory cuts, instead slashing Medicaid, benefits fo...

WASHINGTON -- The latest Republican plan to reconcile the budget and preserve defense spending extracts even deeper cuts from programs to help the poo...

My simple proposal is to impose on our political process a bit of policy analysis -- to go with standard budget analysis -- that I call the Human Impact Report.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The story below includes references to polling conducted by the firm Research 2000. The reliability and accuracy of Research 2000's pol...

I got to thinking about issues on the current political landscape on which I might find common ground. Here's the common ground I found with the Tea Party.

It is hard to fathom it's come this close, and if a Health Care Reform Bill becomes law this week, than this is what the Barack Obama administration will take into history as its legacy.

It's all Kabuki theater to cover up the truth that President Obama made a backroom deal with the for-profit hospital industry that the final health care bill would not include a national public option.

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Today, President Barack Obama will deliver a speech to Congress outlining his plan to move forward on ...

In an interview with me just now, Senator Kent Conrad tore into the media for repeatedly botching its reporting on reconciliation, and confirmed that ...

Anyone who has observed the goings-on in the U.S. Senate for the past couple of decades can tell you that the budget reconciliation process is a commo...

As the dust settles on the aftermath of the health reform summit, not much has changed. Not that anyone really expected anything to change, much, to be honest.

1974, the Senate approved the reconciliation rule by a vote of 80-0. No amendment to the rule has been suggested in thirty-five years. So why do republicans oppose it now?

When Democrats needed a pep talk and reassurance, they didn't get any. Now, in the midst of a growing skepticism, the president has only one weapon in his arsenal that can restore that confidence: Action.

Republican leadership is prepping a full-fledged assault on Democratic lawmakers for the possibility that they will pass health care legislation throu...

The battle lines over the use of the budget reconciliation process have been drawn for a long time. Back in October, Republicans were referring to the...

Before we begin here, I'd like to humbly propose a new law. No American television station should be allowed to have an exclusive contract for any Ol...

Real health care reform is threatening to emerge from the ashes of the Massachusetts special election that exploded the effort in January. A growing m...

If Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is any indication, the GOP plans on greeting any attempt to move health care fixes into law through the budget reconci...