House Lawmakers returned to their old habits during a markup of the $570.4 billion defense appropriations bill, protecting expensive weapons projects favored by lawmakers while ignoring many of the cost-saving initiatives the Pentagon proposed in its Fiscal 2015 budget request.Like…
Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) and Tom Cole (R-Okla.) have introduced a bill that would create a commission tasked with restoring the 75-year solvency of Social Security.The bill would require the leaders of both parties in both chambers of Congress to…
President Obama has nominated Shaun Donovan, secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) since 2009, to become his new budget director.Donovan will replace Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who became Obama’s budget director a little over a year ago but has been…
Congressional gridlock has produced a rare positive result: Senate Republicans blocked a vote on irresponsible legislation that would have renewed dozens of expired tax expenditures without paying for them.After a Senate vote failed to move the bill forward last week,…
