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Oversight
No drama spending bill glides through House panel
Rules Committee spends less than 10 minutes on the stopgap measure.
Oversight
Outgoing senator on why he told Obama not to back Simpson-Bowles budget plan
Kent Conrad feared GOP would 'reflexively' oppose the proposal.
Management
The Obama and Ryan budgets, by the numbers
A comparison of how their proposals stack up on the specifics.
Oversight
Six-month deal reached to avoid government shutdown
Plan would keep spending at the current rate for half a year.
Oversight
House to take up Defense spending bill, hold off on others
After consideration of Defense appropriations measure next week, no other spending bills are likely to make it to the floor before lame duck session.
Oversight
Top Democratic House appropriations job will likely go to a woman
The question is which woman -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio or Rep. Nita Lowey of New York?
Oversight
Social Security can sustain benefits for only 20 more years, Geithner says
The estimate is three years earlier than the program trustees' last prediction.
Oversight
GOP lawmaker accuses generals of 'smoke and mirrors' in budget requests
Republicans complain Defense request is based on an 'artificial' spending cap.
Oversight
Payroll deal deepens fiscal hole
Congressional Budget Office projects $1.2 trillion deficit in 2012.
Oversight
Obama chief of staff: 'Congress needs to get its work done'
Jack Lew puts the ball in lawmakers' court on fiscal 2013 budget and payroll tax cut extension.
News
Leaders join deficit-reduction talks, aides say
Boehner, Reid, McConnell and their staffs are working with super committee members to hammer out a deal.
Oversight
Super committee hears from previous deficit panel chairs
Expectation that the committee will 'go big' is dwindling as the group plays out what feels like a sequel to this summer's debt-ceiling fight.
News
House votes to repeal contractor withholding tax
Legislation's Senate prospects remain uncertain.
News
Deficit panel holds public session on budget cuts
If lawmakers choose the discretionary route in achieving $1.2 trillion in savings over 10 years, they will need to lower the caps for appropriations as well, budget chief says.
News
Smoke signals from the super-secret committee
The deficit-reduction panel is bent on stopping leaks.
Oversight
Super committee schedules first closed-door meeting
Private session will give members a chance to discuss substantive policy issues.
News
Super committee's first meeting dominated by jobs
Members disagree on relationship between deficit reduction and unemployment.
Oversight
Boehner to rewrite debt-limit bill after CBO score
The Congressional Budget Office said the original plan was $1 trillion short of promised savings.
News
Senate minority leader fashions escape for GOP on debt ceiling
Complex plan would essentially give Obama the power to raise the limit without congressional approval.
