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The White House has informed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that it will miss the legal deadline for sending a budget to Congress. Acting Budget Director Jeff Zients [...]

Writing in these pages yesterday, Markos Moulitsas said Wisconsin's GOP leaders were out to prove 'they truly deserve to get thrown to the curb.' National Republicans, led by Tea Party [...]

So now we know President Obama and the Tea Party have something in common--they both want a government shutdown. Obama has all but said so. A deal could still materialize [...]

The U.S. government is broke--a concept the American people understand, but is lost on many of our representatives. Let's review the math. Our federal budget (estimated) is made up of [...]

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) on Thursday will address what he called the Obama administration's 'Libyan war' in a one-hour presentation on the House floor. 'We are in the midst of [...]

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) enlivened a rather dull hearing on the health sections of the president's 2012 budget proposal Wednesday morning with a wakeup call for lawmakers to focus instead [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (DNev.) on Monday accused Republicans of threatening Social Security by pushing $61 billion worth of spending cuts. Democratic leaders are spoiling for a fight with [...]

House Republicans say implementing the Dodd-Frank financial reform law will cost agencies nearly $1 billion this year. The bill will also require the federal government to hire thousands of new [...]

Democrats are deploying a divide-and-conquer strategy in their negotiations with House Republicans over spending cuts. After being put back on their heels earlier in the budget message battle, Senate Democrats [...]

Tensions between Senate Democrats and House Republicans over an impending government shutdown rose Monday as the White House worked to finalize a new offer on spending cuts. The proposal being [...]

A sweeping proposal to add a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution has been delayed in the Senate after GOP leaders decided it should have unanimous Republican support before it moves [...]

A growing chorus of Democratic loyalists argue their party is losing the messaging battle over spending by failing to put a human face on cuts proposed by the GOP. Instead [...]

Pressure on Republican leaders and the White House to hammer out a long-term spending plan intensified Wednesday, as attention increasingly turned to a series of contentious policy divisions at the [...]

Liberals and conservatives in Congress have very different views on the budget, but they agree on at least one thing: no more stopgap bills. Using spending cuts outlined in President [...]

As Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) saw many bills passed by her House majority only to die slowly in the Senate. More than 400 measures that cleared the House in [...]

The House approved a stopgap spending resolution Tuesday in a landslide 335-91 vote, with more than 100 Democrats joining all but six Republicans in voting to slash federal spending by [...]

[A]s we scan the [Obama administration budget] proposal's 216 pages, we're wondering just how revved up we should get about the 2011-2012 budget proposal given that Congress still has done [...]

President Obama's 10-year budget proposal is a balanced approach to cutting projected deficits. He calls it 'a down payment' on the brutal work needed to restore fiscal discipline to federal [...]

Lawmakers and Defense Department officials on Thursday criticized congressional leaders for moving slowly on security spending measures, delays they said could undermine Iraqi stability and cause 'a disaster' for the [...]

* President Obama's fiscal 2012 budget proposal, due to be released today, will be a leading financial topic this week, with several hearings on tap to dissect it. Treasury Secretary [...]

* House Appropriators were feeling the heat last week as they were asked to find a way to make the biggest budget cuts the United States has seen since the [...]

Jack Lew, President Obama's budget director, is set to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee next week about the president's fiscal 2012 budget plan, the committee announced Wednesday. [...]

Appropriators, late again in passing a federal budget by the start of the fiscal year, are now eyeing an end-of-October deadline. Whether the appropriation bills move as quickly as Democrats [...]

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) will be in the spotlight as the Oct. 1 deadline for funding the government approaches. GOP leaders have said a continuing resolution (CR) [...]