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Ky. Sen. Mitch McConnell Faces Hard Choices on Spending

WASHINGTON — As Congress faces a potential meltdown over the budget and spending, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is staring at tough...

Op-Ed: Divide and Conquer: Turning Us Against Them

The lead story in the Dec. 14, 2009 edition of the Washington Post began: “The Senate cleared for Obama’s signature on Sunday a $447 billion...

Q&A: The Lowdown on the Shutdown, or Why You Should Care About the CR

Washington (CNN) -- In less than a month, the government may shut down. Lines are being drawn. Vacations are being canceled. Friends are...

Government Fees the Key to a Budget Bargain?

Lawmakers are deadlocked over tax increases and spending cuts, but there’s another way that could nudge them closer to addressing this...

House Panel May Unveil CR Today

The House Appropriations Committee will release the text of a continuing resolution as early as Tuesday, with the full House scheduled to...

Obama and the GOP Hawks

By all accounts, President Obama’s efforts to lobby Congress in support of military intervention in Syria are going poorly. Perhaps most...

House could vote on CR next week

The House could move forward as early as next week with a fiscal 2014 continuing resolution, a spokeswoman for the House Appropriations...

Don’t Bomb Us Back to the Fiscal Stone Age

The decision by the President to seek Congressional debate and votes regarding military action against Syria is the talk of Washington this...

Don’t Use Syria to Pump Up Pentagon Spending

(CNN) -- A number of conservative hawks, including Senator John McCain and House Armed Services Committee chair Howard P. "Buck" McKeon,...

The Pentagon’s Place in this Fall’s Budget Battle

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says the U.S. will reach its $16.7 trillion borrowing limit in mid-October. Unless Congress acts, a big part of...

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...