WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden says the reason he has been called upon to close deals with congressional Republicans is because he has de...

In the waning days of 2012, many Americans weren't sure the fiscal cliff could be avoided. Now that a deal has been reached, they are divided on what ...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama badly wanted to keep the country from going over the fiscal cliff. In the Oval Office on Nov. 16, 10 days afte...

Isn't it time our elected officials grow up and realize that government service truly should be a higher calling? As George Washington stated in a letter to Benedict Arnold, dated Sept. 14, 1775, "Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country."

Congressional leaders are still engaged in negotiations over the fiscal cliff. The Senate passed a last-minute plan at 2 a.m. Tuesday with a vote o...

Some were willing to settle for a "mini bargain." Instead Congress seems now to be working on a "micro deal."

WASHINGTON -- Congress stumbled ingloriously off Capitol Hill New Year's Eve, with the Senate passing a "fiscal cliff" deal two hours after the deadli...

WASHINGTON -- Shaking up the "fiscal cliff" negotiations as they enter their closing stages, one of the top labor leaders in the country urged Democra...

WASHINGTON -- Urging full financial support for the U.S. court system, Chief Justice John Roberts said in his year-end report Monday that the federal ...

The deal emerging from the Senate is a lousy one. Let me count the ways.

WASHINGTON -- With hours remaining to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, President Barack Obama said a deal is “within sight” and urged lawmakers t...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he and the White House have agreed on preventing tax hikes that the "fiscal cliff" will trig...

President Barack Obama is giving a speech on the so-called fiscal cliff Monday at 1:30 p.m. with middle-class Americans, the White House announced. ...

Fiscal cliff negotiations continue on Capitol Hill as congressional leaders attempt to reach a deal ahead of January 1, when tax hikes and across-the-...

Former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) said Monday that the debt ceiling should not be used as leverage by Republicans in discussions on the so-called fiscal...

U.S. lawmakers hurtled toward a midnight deadline to avert hundreds of billions of dollars in tax increases and spending cuts, struggling to extract t...

Guns or butter is of course the real issue. It's unfortunate, all these decades after Eisenhower's warning about the pernicious, corrupting influence of the Military Industrial Complex, that we cannot count on those in Washington to heed the dangers.

By ALAN FRAM AND ANDREW TAYLOR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The White House and Senate Republicans sorted through stubborn disputes over ta...

BY ANDREW TAYLOR, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has asked Vice President Joe Biden to become involved...

U.S. Senate leaders have not yet been able to reach a deal to a avert a "fiscal cliff," and with time running out, it is uncertain if they will get ...

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) rebuked President Obama's remarks on Republicans' role in fiscal cliff negotiations, slamming the president for hi...

BY JIM KUHNHENN, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Whether negotiated in a rush before the new year or left for early January, the fiscal deal Presid...

New York Times columnist David Brooks said Sunday that Republicans should shoulder most of the blame if lawmakers do not reach an agreement on the fis...

WASHINGTON -- In his first Sunday show interview since his reelection, President Barack Obama admonished congressional Republicans for their unwilling...