Author Archive
Oversight
Few signs of progress toward a fiscal cliff deal
On TV interviews, Geithner and Boehner reveal little indicating policy breakthroughs.
Management
Analysis: Romney’s ‘47 percent' talk explains his struggles with swing voters
Independents disagree with his views on government's role.
Oversight
The quick economic case for V.P. Paul Ryan
Romney might need a good salesman to secure budget cuts to accompany a debt limit increase.
Defense
Romney adviser: Cut entitlements to spare Defense, save jobs
Romney had not previously suggested where he would cut spending.
Management
Commerce chief resigns, citing effects of seizure
Bryson went on medical leave after the traffic incident in San Diego.
Management
Commerce secretary takes leave of absence
John Bryson was involved in separate traffic accidents in California over the weekend.
News
Obama’s jobs plan: timely, targeted, but incomplete
As stimulus, the new proposal appears much better designed than the Recovery Act.
News
Stunning jobs report complicates debt deal for both Obama, GOP
Weak employment numbers seen as argument against the president's strategy of mimicking Republicans' call for government belt-tightening.
Oversight
Playing with fire: A manmade debt-limit crisis
Congress may take a page from the book of firefighters in negotiatiing the debt limit crisis
Defense
The cost of battling bin Laden: $3 trillion
Over 15 years, the terrorist leader cost America more than any villain, ever -- which is exactly the way he wanted it.
Oversight
A Japan-reactor repeat in the United States could cost the government dearly
Taxpayers, not the utilities, would be liable for most of the bill.
Oversight
Commission sets stage for 2011 budget debate
Panel co-chairmen expect House spending blueprint to include many of their recommendations.
Oversight
Deficit commission's final plan released
Strategy is more detailed than a draft the panel's chairmen floated in early November, but contains few fundamental changes.
