The congressional budget process has run into even more trouble, with partisan rancor over guns and a sit-down protest by Democrats leading the House last week to start its July 4 recess early -- despite the tight time schedule Congress…
House lawmakers approved defense appropriations legislation last week that would use a war-funding gimmick to circumvent spending limits that were agreed to just last fall. The appropriations bill, which passed 282-138, follows defense policy legislation that the House approved last…
Fiscal experts testified last week to the House Budget Committee on the need to control automatic federal spending on programs such as Social Security and Medicare in which expenditures are not subject to the annual appropriations process. The committee hearing…
Conflict over military funding returns to Capitol Hill as appropriators and some defense hawks spar over using a special account supporting combat operations to increase defense spending above the limit set by last fall’s bipartisan budget agreement. The House version…
