WASHINGTON -- As sequestration cuts grew more likely during the first two months of 2013, one industry found profit in budget belt-tightening. Organiz...

WASHINGTON -- Victims of sequestration lashed out at Congress on Friday, after lawmakers moved swiftly to address long lines at airports while leaving...

Way back in August of 2011, Congress passed a law called the Budget Control Act, which raised the debt ceiling, enacted a tranche of spending cuts, cr...

WASHINGTON -- Congress appears to finally be feeling the effects of federal budget sequestration. On Wednesday, Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Ga...

By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is getting an earful about the big spending cuts beginning to hit ...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama promised this time would be different, that if he won re-election, a Republican "fever" would break and legislati...

WASHINGTON -- The bluntness of sequestration was supposed to be what made it so effective. The $1 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years would hit ev...

WASHINGTON -- A top Democrat says the automatic spending cuts set to take effect were meant as a threat, not a strategy. Sen. Dick Durbin, the assist...