If Congress doesn't reach a fiscal cliff deal by the end of the year, up to 100 million Americans will face tax delays, the Internal Revenue Service w...
There is a relatively simple proposal that the president make that could raise more money than the nominal rate increase he wants, be progressive in its impact, and produce a more equitable and widely understood tax system.
WASHINGTON -- With congressional Republicans unbending in their opposition to including tax hikes or revenue increases in a debt ceiling deal, Democra...
WASHINGTON – A day before President Barack Obama is set to map out his long-term fiscal policy, Congressional leaders in both parties are already dr...
The tax deal shift signifies political willingness to start altering the way we pay for Social Security in way that has never been politically possible before.
'Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the House, Congress was conferring: every mensch, every louse.
Howard Fineman appeared on "Hardball" Friday evening to discuss Obama's signing of the deal which will extend Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy for tw...
Will labor and progressive groups have the financial and organizational power to fight an ascendant GOP and outside pro-business conservative groups?
UPDATE: The House of Representatives is slated to vote near midnight Thursday on the bill to preserve extended unemployment benefits and tax cuts for ...
We need a permanent payroll tax holiday. But meanwhile we need to strengthen our social compact, not by legislating future benefit cuts, but rather by legislating more generous retirements.
The deal the President negotiated with the Republicans would make the United States the only large and wealthy country in the world to withstand the global wave of reactionary and horribly-timed cuts in government spending.
Liberals may feel that the compromise negotiated by President Barack Obama is a kick in the teeth, but the debate over Bush-era tax cuts has offered p...
Whatever Obama accomplished during his first two years in office his decision to normalize the sweeping changes in American governance of the George W. Bush period will likely neutralize any lasting positive effects for Democrats.
WASHINGTON - Not to be outdone by their liberal counterparts, conservatives are working themselves into a state of dismay over what they disparagingly...
Howard Fineman appeared on "Hardball" Tuesday evening to discuss the White House compromise on tax cuts, including Mitt Romney's recent opposition to ...
Obama's compromise on the current tax deal must be evaluated against several other previously important issues connected to the exercise or lack of exercise of his presidential leadership.
Next year the Republicans will have ironclad control of the House. It would be outrageous if Democrats allowed a minority of Republican Senators to use the current rules to limit what the Democratic majority can do in the Senate.
ou can now read the entire 124-page speech online. We combed the entire speech, collecting the Senator's scattered references to books. Follow the lin...
The ease with which Obama let Bill Clinton take over a White House press conference was alarming. Instead of a serious discussion, the American people had two presidents pouring water down our backs, telling us it was raining.
The proponents of the tax deal that Obama and Republicans negotiated last week have gotten out their TARP and Iraq War hysterics, now telling us that if Congress doesn't approve the package, it will be the end of the world.
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Sunday continued to hold firm on the idea that its framework for a deal on the expiring Bush tax cuts could ...
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), the incoming ranking member of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief negotiators of a deal to re...
Democrats in Congress, by their actions, are labeling themselves the "pro-spending" and "pro-tax party" and distancing themselves from the president in all the wrong ways. He is not triangulating -- they are doing it for him.
The president fails comprehend that his style of public vacillation and preemptive compromise is more to blame for the disillusionment so many Democrats share than the substance of what he gave up.
