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Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Phillip Swagel testified before the House Budget Committee about his agency’s recent report on the budget and economic outlook for fiscal years 202…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testified on the U.S. economy and monetary policy before the House Budget Committee. Other topics discussed included trade policy, income inequality, the …

The weekly Republican address was delivered by the authors of more than a dozen House-passed jobs bills who called on President Obama and Senate Democrats to act for the sake of the economy.

Douglas Elmendorf testified on the 2013 federal budget and economic outlook. He said that 750,000 jobs would be lost during the year if Congress does not reach an agreement to avoid automati…

Dougs Elmendorf testified before the House Budget Committee about the Congressional Budget Office’s newly released economic outlook.

Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke testified on the U.S. economic outlook for 2012. The hearing touched on a wide range of issues including unemployment, the federal deficit, increasing taxe…

House Republican leaders spoke about the latest unemployment statistics.

Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf said that the nation’s fiscal outlook was “daunting” unless lawmakers made significant policy changes. He also talked about long-term f…

House Republican leaders marked the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s speech in which he called the summer of 2010 the “summer of recovery.” The lawmakers said that the economy still…