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This week the House of Representatives is poised to vote on a legislative package that would permanently change how physicians are paid in Medicare. The legislation would eliminate the need for annual “doc fixes” -- a more than decade-long ritual…

Twenty-one percent of Americans are planning to work their entire lives, according to a recent survey by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The household survey found that in addition to those who said they had no plans to retire, 53 percent…

The House and Senate Budget Committees passed proposed budgets last week but infighting over defense spending has left Republican leaders scrambling to solidify support for the plans. Both budgets promise to reduce and eventually end deficits over the next decade…

House and Senate Republicans this week are unveiling separate budget plans for Fiscal 2016, emphasizing the need for deficit reduction but also showing some differences that could complicate this year’s appropriations work. The House plan, released Tuesday, calls for $5.6…

Deficits would total $6 trillion over the next 10 years under President Obama’s proposed Fiscal 2016 budget, according to the Congressional Budget Office. While still troubling, that would be $1.2 trillion lower than CBO’s recently updated projections under current law.…

Former U.S. congressmen William H. Zeliff (R-N.H.) and Richard N. Swett (D-N.H.) revisited their time on Capitol Hill when they spoke to the Manchester Rotary Club last week on a familiar topic: Fixing the federal budget. While representing different parties,…

More than five months into Fiscal 2015, the House last week finally approved Homeland Security funding for the rest of the year, giving up on efforts to include provisions to block President Obama’s immigration policies. The 257-167 vote came after…

After a 13-month hiatus, the debt limit is set to return to the national spotlight when it will be reinstated Monday and raised to the debt’s current level. What the Treasury Department calls “extraordinary measures,” however, would allow the government…