House GOP Plan Criticized As Breaking Debt Ceiling Deal
By David Lawder WASHINGTON--Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives pushed back on Wednesday against suggestions that their drive for ...
By David Lawder WASHINGTON--Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives pushed back on Wednesday against suggestions that their drive for ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.27.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Thursday to let the president raise the nation's debt limit by about $1.2 trillion, voting down a measure that would ha...
Robert Creamer | Posted 12.25.2011
It is far better for everyday Americans if the so-called Super Committee fails entirely to get a deal. The overarching reason is simple.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.28.2011
As markets warn of the risk of double-dip recession or even depression, politicians in Washington and Berlin -- who claim to believe in "free markets" -- fiddle while Rome may be about to burn.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- The so-called Super Congress will attempt to hold the majority of its meetings in public, in full view of the voters and the press, the ...
AP | Posted 11.02.2011
WASHINGTON -- The bipartisan supercommittee will hold its first meeting next week as it begins a three-month quest to come up with at least $1.2 trill...
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 10.24.2011
WASHINGTON — After months of unrelieved gloom and discord, Congress and President Barack Obama are starting to make a dent in the federal budget...
AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 10.22.2011
WASHINGTON -- As a "supercommittee" tries to find $1.5 trillion in new deficit cuts this fall, Republicans will be pressing a far more ambitious goal:...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 10.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- Deficit super committee member and Republican Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said Tuesday he will oppose any Social Security benefit reductio...
Posted 10.18.2011
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) blasted Congress for America's financial troubles and predicted that the debt ceiling agreement would unravel this fall, cal...
The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 10.16.2011
Investment guru Warren Buffett gave a wide-ranging interview to Charlie Rose, which aired on Monday evening. He discussed the economy's prospects, the...
AP | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 10.13.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is calling on frustrated voters to tell Congress they're sick of gridlock and partisanship and want to see compro...
Dana Radcliffe | Posted 10.12.2011
We must admit that we no longer believe the democratic process should be informed by genuine debate, where our representatives give other arguments an honest hearing and respond thoughtfully -- and occasionally change their minds.
AP | By DONNA CASSATA and JOSH LOFTIN | Posted 10.11.2011
CASTLE DALE, Utah -- Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz fiercely opposed a debt-limit bill that took a significant swipe at the nation's deficit and had n...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 10.11.2011
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made the final picks for the new deficit-slashing "super Congress" Thursday, naming three ...
Washington Post | Bill Gross | Posted 10.11.2011
For a few days there it seemed like President Obama was the master of the bond market. This is a Triple-A nation, he intoned on Monday, and always wil...
The Atlanta Post | Posted 10.10.2011
When President Obama struck a deal with Republicans agreeing to $3 trillion in federal budget cuts, few anticipated how these savings might impact col...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mandy Jenkins | Posted 10.09.2011
WASHINGTON – As President Barack Obama campaigns for re-election, he has to sell a controversial deal he endorsed to end the impasse over the debt c...
Posted 10.10.2011
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) talked to people in Saco, Maine about the debt ceiling negotiations Wednesday, and lamented the extreme partisanship that...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.10.2011
Four years ago, candidate Barack Obama generated a great deal of excitement, even optimism. It is hard to imagine any candidate from either party doing that in 2012. Additionally, neither party can present itself as the party of change or new ideas.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.09.2011
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will appoint Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) to t...
Ellen Brown | Posted 10.09.2011
We have been sold the idea that there is a "debt crisis" when there is really a liquidity crisis. Paying down the federal debt when money is already scarce just makes matters worse.
Katherine McFate | Posted 10.09.2011
Effective democracy requires an informed, engaged citizenry, honest debate, and elected representatives working in the public interest. These elements were not in evidence last week.
Christopher Newfield | Posted 10.09.2011
The rational distrust of tens of millions of people for an innovation economy that requires ever-higher levels of public investment for not-so-democratically distributed economic benefit bolsters Tea Party refusals of any kind of public action. It is now trapping the country in a devolutionary spiral.
Star-Telegram | Posted 10.09.2011
Hours after the Dow Jones industrial average closed down more than 600 points Monday, U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, heard from local conser...
Posted 03.15.2012