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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testified on President Obama’s proposed fiscal year 2015 budget. In his opening statement he also addressed President Obama’s executive order regarding Russia’s i…

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified on the Health and Human Services Department fiscal year 2015 budget request. She said that there was no plan to delay the health care law’s individual m…

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on President Obama’s proposed fiscal year 2014 budget.*Topics addressed in the hearing included sequestration …

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and other representatives debated the 2014 budget proposal submitted by Mr. Ryan.

Witnesses testified on the history of the national debt limit, negotiations between past Congresses and presidents to raise the limit, and executive branch constitutional options when the de…

House Republican leaders spoke to reporters about House passage of the “No Budget, No Pay” bill to raise the debt ceiling through May 18.

Representative Dave Camp (R-MI) delivered the Weekly Republican Address. He said that the nation’s “spending problem is getting worse, not better” and called for cutting spending and reformi…

The House Rules Committee met to set guidelines for the floor debate on defense programs and on House Speaker John Boehner’s amendment to H.J.Res. 66. The amendment would avoid the impending…

A House-Senate Conference Committee met in an attempt to break the deadlock over a Social Security payroll tax cut extension.

A House-Senate Conference Committee met in an attempt to break the deadlock over a Social Security payroll tax cut extension.

A House-Senate Conference Committee met in an attempt to break the deadlock over a Social Security payroll tax cut extension.

House Republican leaders spoke to reporters about extending the Social Security payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits. They said a two-month extension would hurt small businesses and ur…

Former officials tasked with finding a solution to the nation’s debt and deficit problems testified about their previous attempts to offer solutions and the work of the Joint Select Committe…

Douglas Elmendorf testified before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. In his remarks he talked about the state of the economy and deficit spending, saying that larger short-ter…

The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction held its first meeting. The bipartisan supercommittee aims to recommend $1.2 trillion in budget deficit reduction over a ten-year period. Memb…

Douglas Elmendorf testified on discretionary federal spending at a hearing of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. Among the topics he addressed were defense spending, tax policy…

Thomas Barthold testified on individual and corporate tax rates before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction hearing on tax code reform. The bipartisan Select Deficit Reduction Com…

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) said a short-term extension in the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling was “not a good idea,” but noted a short-term hike might be necessary in …

House Republicans responded to President Obama’s plan for decreasing the federal deficit and reducing the national debt.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget. He called President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget the first …