Lawmakers weigh hiking debt limit
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- The Senate was expected Wednesday to approve legislation that would hike the federal debt limit by $800 billion, just as the Treasury Department runs out of room to maneuver under the existing ceiling.
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Congressional Democrats and the Treasury Department disagree over the amount of unpaid taxes that could be collected.
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Republicans in Congress want to significantly tighten regulations to keep people who declare bankruptcy from ducking debts they should be able to settle, but Democrats and physicians' groups argue the move would penalize Americans who go broke because of huge medical bills they can't pay.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday pushed for tougher rules to stop American companies from buying illegally logged timber plundered from fragile forests around the world.
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Lawmakers on Thursday pieced together legislation extending popular tax breaks and saving doctors from a cut in Medicare payments as Republicans prepared to cede control of Congress to the Democrats.
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Wednesday he expects the federal government to reach its $8.965 trillion statutory debt limit on October 1.
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President Bush's weekend campaign promise that he will push legislation allowing for no money down on some federally insured mortgages could cost taxpayers as much as $500 million over four years because of a higher rate of defaults, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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The US House of Representatives on Thursday prepared to raise the nation&#39;s debt ceiling by $800 billion, taking the new limit to $8.184 trillion.
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US lawmakers are nearing a fast-track plan aimed at boosting the economy and avoiding a possible recession.
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A small but growing number of lawmakers look for a Plan B that can win broader support.
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Despite their lead in the polls, congressional Democrats are concerned, and even feuding, about whether they will have enough cash to take back the House this fall
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From an Alaska land swap to tours of a Georgia barrier island, business interests bested environmentalists in battles that shaped Congress' &#36;388 billion spending bill.
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A divided Senate approved an &#36;800 billion increase in the federal debt limit Wednesday, a major boost in borrowing that Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats blamed on the fiscal policies of President Bush.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 14--There is a slope. And it is slippery.   Especially, it seems, regarding issues of public health.   Lawmakers in North Dakota and Minnesota have spent lots of time on health  proposals -- bills that protect us from ourselves.
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Sky-high interest rates on credit  cards can make a mountain of debt seem insurmountable.  Eventually for some, it is.
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A House committee chairman is trying to show his Democratic colleagues that people in the U.S. are not ready to pay the full costs of fixing global warming.
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House Democratic leaders, consigned by the election to a minority role for another two years, said Tuesday they want to hold Republicans more accountable, starting with a vote on raising the &#36;7.4 trillion debt ceiling.