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The new Congress is re-fighting last year’s battle over immigration and Homeland Security funding for Fiscal 2015, which is now already three and a half months old. Stopgap funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is set to expire…

A looming crisis is facing Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) program: Unless Congress takes action, the DI trust fund will run out next year and beneficiaries will suffer an across-the-board cut of 19 percent. Some advocates suggest that a “simple…

The 114th Congress convenes today with Republicans controlling both the House and Senate for the first time in President Obama’s presidency, underscoring the importance of bipartisanship in dealing with the nation’s key fiscal challenges. These challenges remain significant, despite the…

The Senate is widely expected to approve a $42 billion, one-year renewal of over 50 tax breaks for certain businesses and other special interests without paying for them. The House approved the bill earlier this month and President Obama is…

Well over two months into the current fiscal year, Congress has finally approved a single massive spending plan that funds most of the government for the rest of Fiscal 2015. This is better than the alternatives: another government shutdown or…

Former U.S. Senators J. Robert Kerrey and John C. Danforth today released an update of a 1994 commission report on entitlement and tax reform and called on Americans -- particularly presidential hopefuls -- to address the nation’s fiscal challenges. A…

Twenty years after the Kerrey-Danforth Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform issued its bipartisan findings, its co-chairs on Dec. 16 will release an update and explain why Americans today -- including the 2016 presidential candidates -- should champion broad fiscal…

Lawmakers continue to haggle over everything from immigration to a reauthorization of the terrorism risk insurance program as they approach a deadline this Thursday to approve long-overdue spending legislation for Fiscal 2015, which began Oct. 1.For the last two months,…