Congress appears once again to have botched one of its key responsibilities: Approving a dozen spending bills for the coming fiscal year in a timely fashion. Many lawmakers, particularly in the GOP leadership, had hoped to put the budget process…
There is a sense of deja vu as lawmakers again struggle with short-term measures for the Highway Trust Fund rather than finding a permanent solution to its chronic financial shortfalls. In a 312-119 vote, the House last week passed an…
Last year the IRS hung up 544,000 times on taxpayers because the agency could not deal with everyone who needed information -- a practice it bafflingly describes as “courtesy disconnects.” That statistic was troubling enough. But this year the number…
The country needs a revitalized bipartisan discussion about the national debt and related fiscal challenges, according to Phil LaRue, a former senior advisor on Capitol Hill who recently joined The Concord Coalition as its director of government relations. “The Congressional…
