#Congress

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…

WASHINGTON -- 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 quickly address the nation’s…

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,…

With federal spending legislation set to expire next week, appropriators continue to work on a tardy “omnibus” plan for the rest of Fiscal 2015. Republican leaders are weighing their options for using the spending bill in some way short of…

Lawmakers are now focusing on extending a series of tax provisions mainly benefiting businesses for one year after a much larger deal that would have added hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit collapsed last week. (more…)

Members of Congress went home for their Thanksgiving break amid growing doubts about whether they will be able to pass appropriate budget legislation before the end of the year. Lawmakers should have passed a dozen spending bills for Fiscal 2015…

Congressional appropriators are continuing to negotiate on legislation to fund the government in Fiscal 2015, which began Oct. 1. Since then a stop-gap measure has kept the government open by largely continuing funding at Fiscal 2014 levels. But that measure,…