Some lawmakers are chipping away at their colleagues’ opposition to a badly needed new round of military base realignment and closures. Members of the House Appropriations Committee included language in the Military Construction/Veterans Administration funding bill that asks the Pentagon…
The country’s fiscal and demographic challenges are so large that elected officials in both parties have a responsibility to work together to find bipartisan solutions, according to two Iowa state legislators. “At times it can seem like there is nothing…
Congressional negotiators presented often-contrasting views on taxes, defense spending, health care, safety net programs and the economy as they held their first formal meeting Monday to develop a joint budget resolution for Fiscal 2016. The House and Senate approved separate…
The Senate Tuesday night overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation to permanently fix the formula for determining how physicians are paid under Medicare. The final vote of 92-8 sent the legislation, already passed in the House, to President Obama, who is expected…
