Praising efforts by the First Budget initiative to get the presidential hopefuls to discuss the federal debt and related issues such as entitlement reform, the Chicago Tribune recently urged voters to help put pressure on the candidates to do so.…
National health care spending grew more quickly last year than in other recent years, according to a new report by actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Spending grew by 5.5 percent last year, up from the…
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…
