Budgetary smoke this week mirrors a larger problem
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Congress will try to wrap up spending bills and raise the national debt limit to more than $8 trillion.
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The issue is emerging as a big one in Iowaâand it could wind up pulling the GOP contenders far enough to the right to cause problems next November.
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Both candidates have plans for dealing with our fiscal mess. But neither are addressing the real problems
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With his poll numbers in the tank, the President seems to be gearing up for a veto fight with Congress over a long forgotten issue  -  controlling spending
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State efforts to transform the nationâs health care system appear to be on a collision course with the Bush administrationâs latest budget proposal.
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Government to be publicly castigated this week over failure to help poor people - by fuel poverty watchdog
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Even though the Congressional Budget Office&#39;s (CBO) September baseline forecast reduced its projection of the 2004 federal budget deficit by more than $50 billion, it offered little hope that substantive progress would be achieved on the fiscal front any
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The Christian Science Monitor - Just 35 hours after they passed a $2.8 trillion budget for FY 2007 with zero Democratic votes, House Republicans ran into a wall: the division between appropriators and fiscal hawks in their own ranks.
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Architect of budget increase criticises the inadequate return the investment has yielded.
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The United States is facing the possibility of a severe economic correction. Yet most of the causes of such a correction are, for the most part, being completely ignored in preference to partisan bickering. It is the proverbial elephant in the living room - except it is not just one, but several elephants that everyone is doing their best to ignore. While the likelihood that any of these issues could result in disaster is low, these are issues worth taking the time to discuss.
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Despite persistent pay gaps for the military, legislative fixes exacerbate short-term funding problems.
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The congressional spending season began with a blowup over earmarks in the House yesterday, as the first bill to reach a vote prompted a White House veto threat and scores of amendments from Republicans furious with Democrats' handling of pet-project spending in the measures.
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THE US federal deficit will swell to a record $US422 billion ($608 billion) this election year but fall short of even more dire forecasts, Congress&#39; top budget analysts projected
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The magnitude of the proposed cuts in federal funds for public broadcasting put forth this week sent public broadcasters scrambling.
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With the election in the rear view  mirror, this week Wall Street faces the next big obstacle --  higher interest rates.
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This week, one issue hit home with voters and forced the candidates to re-think their scripts. The issue even walked off with the Political Play of the Week.
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The drive to pass a &#36;136 billion corporate tax bill hit a roadblock in the Senate on Friday when lawmakers upset about tobacco regulation, new overtime rules and combat pay employed delaying tactics to prevent a vote.