Tomorrow, when the House takes up the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget, the Congressional Progressive Caucus will present an alternative budget for the third year in a row.
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
Organizing for America, the post-election reincarnation of the Obama presidential campaign's massive grassroots organizing arm, will hand over some 64...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
House and Senate Republicans emerged from an early morning meeting in a closed House chamber Wednesday morning to unveil their much-awaited budget alt...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
"I am ashamed at getting my stimulus bill passed so quickly. Republicans, those masters of bipartisanship, offered their sincere efforts to delay this bill for months and, I admit, I ignored them."
Jonathan Richards | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
See how smart you can look on a budget?
Norm Stamper | Posted 04.28.2009 | Politics
Our leader doesn't seem to understand that millions of his interlocutor-constituents are actually quite serious about the issue.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
It comes down to this: Do you think health care reform should get a straight majority vote in Congress? Or should a few Senators be allowed to single-handedly block reform?
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
While watching President Obama's press conference Tuesday evening, I was struck by a few things that are often forgotten in the criticism of his proposed budget.
Odile Weissenborn | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.
Dean Baker | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
We're supposed to be up in arms over the deficit projections for 2013 or 2019? That's bit like someone complaining about the lawn not being mowed at a time when the house is on fire.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Will Obama's transformative budget survive? As his press conference last night illustrated, it runs a serious risk of drowning in a swamp of cant.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Republicans and some conservative Democrats have adopted a simple refrain in opposition to President Obama's budget: it's too big. On Monday, Sena...
AP | DAVID ESPO and ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's allies rallied around his ambitious budget blueprint as he visited the Capitol on Wednesday, and only hour...
Ed Kilgore | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
As Republicans continue to shriek about it, they need to be reminded that reconciliation in its current form was largely the creation of the sainted Ronald Reagan.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics
The Vice President's chief economic adviser said Sunday that the White House agreed that "major" energy or health care policy should not be part of th...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
The most treacherous opposition to reform actually comes from within the Democratic Party itself, from so-called "moderate" and conservative Democrats, particularly the Blue Dogs.
Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 04.17.2009 | Home
A great pitcher, when the pressure is on, lets the game affect him and starts speeding up instead of executing his pitching strategy. A big game pitcher, slows the game down. Obama is a big game pitcher.
New York Times | Carl Hulse | Posted 04.14.2009 | Politics
Congressional Republicans are engaged in a highly coordinated political assault on President Obama's budget, but they are not so united when it comes...
Frida Berrigan | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
Is each weapons system or program provided for in our budget actually needed for American security? Or are the defense contractors shoveling a load of shovel-ready bull?
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim and Julie Satow | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
It took an unlikely alignment of events to create a situation where venture capitalists and private equity managers could pay a lower tax rate than th...
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Lower tax revenue and massive government spending on the bank bailout pushed the federal deficit to $765 billion in the first five ...
Jerome Halligan | Posted 04.10.2009 | Comedy
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared in front of reporters at the Capitol this morning, and said, "The problem with this budget, as I see it, is a love of unnecessary spending, hairless spending."
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
Veterans' funding is about $1.2 billion higher than the amount recommended by leading veterans' organizations, but Obama's budget is still not a slam dunk for veterans.
August J. Pollak | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
Stupid people turn to the stupidest thing ever for the stupidest idea possible.
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
While I support the president's budget, it does not bring Easter morning to the country.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics