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The House of Representatives put out one fiscal fire Wednesday, approving a measure to extend the Treasury Department’s borrowing authority to May 18, but there are more hot issues simmering…
The debt ceiling is the latest self-inflicted crisis created by the federal government so that Democrats and Republicans can point fingers at each other. Here are five things to catch…
Republican leaders will deliver a new strategy this week in the budding battle with Democrats over who gets the blame if the U.S. government has to default on its $16.4…
The legislation that kept the United States from going over the fiscal cliff was fool’s gold for anyone who thought it would help American businesses and the 12 million people…
House Republicans dragged America to the rim of the fiscal cliff Tuesday before bowing to pressure from the Senate and passing legislation limiting tax hikes and spending cuts. The final…
Congress allowed America to stumble over the fiscal cliff Tuesday morning but left itself enough rope to pull the country out of trouble, perhaps before lunch. Senate leaders of both…
The clock is winding down on the Jan. 1 deadline for the fiscal cliff crisis, and the Republican Party has punted. House Speaker John Boehner, who introduced what he thought…
The sword-fighting between Democrats and Republicans could get nasty in the next few days as the battle heats up over how to avoid the fiscal cliff. Republican House Speaker John…
The momentum Republican House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama built Monday toward a resolution of the fiscal cliff crisis lasted less than 24 hours. It ended when Boehner chose…
The fiscal cliff debate will be going on some place this weekend, but Capitol Hill isn’t one of them. With a little more than two weeks remaining before mandatory spending…