With a potential government shutdown hours away on Friday, President Obama, Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reached a last-minute agreement to continue funding government agencies for the remainder of the fiscal year.Under the…
With the continuing resolution (CR) that currently funds government agencies set to expire on Friday, policymakers will need to reach agreement this week on a new resolution to avoid a government shutdown.Yesterday Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee proposed yet…
Moe, Larry and Curly are fighting in the back seat of the car. No one is in the driver’s seat. As the boys settle down, Curly looks up and says, “Hey, don’t look now but we’re about to be killed.”…
The temper tantrums, blame-throwing and unrealistic thinking in Washington sometimes resemble an unruly elementary school classroom rather than a mature, deliberative national government.That’s particularly true when the subject is the federal budget, where the political debate often degenerates into an…
