Management
Budget assumes agencies will collect unlikely amount in fees
Congress may prove reluctant to enact key fee hikes incorporated into the 2007 budget, leaving money even tighter than it appears.
Management
More requests to cut programs enacted, but some remain a tough sell
Congress is still reluctant to let some programs go, even if they are unable to show results.
Management
Budget cuts may prove difficult in election year
Lawmakers praise effort to slow entitlement growth, warn that stringent cuts in discretionary spending may be hard to swallow.
Management
Budget-cutting bill passes House again by narrow margin
Measure would trim the deficit by $39 billion over five years, largely through changes to student loan and entitlement programs.
News
Budget office predicts slight increase in deficit this fiscal year
Relative to the size of the economy, deficit expected to remain about the same as last year – not accounting for policies yet to be passed by Congress.
Management
Panel considers limits on lawmakers' earmark requests
Proposal looks to reduce the overall number of requests from about 35,000 each year to a more manageable number.
News
Backlash against earmarks gains steam
Movement to require public disclosure of local projects funded in spending bills gains momentum in wake of recent scandals.
News
Final budget vote set for Feb. 1
Passage of fiscal 2006 budget reconciliation bill would eliminate unneeded distraction as President Bush prepares to send up his 2007 budget.
News
Negotiations on budget-cutting bill to end this week
Accelerated timetable means measure is likely to escape more controversial add-ons, which may go to Defense bill instead.
Management
Final budget-cutting vote may be delayed until January
Acting majority leader did not commit Wednesday to bringing reconciliation bill up before Congress adjourns for the holidays.
News
House-Senate negotiators working to finish spending bills
House speaker continues push for 1 percent across-the-board cut.
News
Senator eyes unspent Iraq funds for hurricane reconstruction
Additional offsets for recovery could come in form of across-the-board cuts to fiscal 2006 appropriations.
News
Rift on Katrina relief, bird flu complicates Defense spending negotiations
Key appropriator from Mississippi wants more than double the $17.1 billion in hurricane aid proposed by the White House.
News
House, Senate leaders closer to avoiding catch-all spending bill
Leaders agree to send $142.5 billion Labor-HHS measure back to negotiations, meaning it will likely move as a stand-alone bill.
News
In rebuke to GOP leaders, House defeats Labor-HHS spending bill
Leaders hold vote open for 36 minutes to twist arms, but are unsuccessful.
News
House, Senate leaders plot strategy for finishing spending bills
House speaker is under pressure from conservatives to push across-the-board spending cuts at agencies.
News
Cuts to social programs upset key appropriators
Negotiators near agreement on spending bills, but $1.4 billion in cuts to Labor, Education and HHS not sitting well.
Management
Congress looks to provide $1.2 billion for VA in austere budget environment
Money is needed to achieve President Bush's amended funding request, announced this summer after embarrassing errors in VA budget projections were discovered.
Defense
Pentagon says urgent action needed on defense spending bill
Dec. 1 military pay day could all be jeopardized if lawmakers cannot agree on fiscal 2006 spending levels before Thanksgiving break.
News
Conference on Defense spending bill postponed
GOP leaders agree on one thing: they would like to avoid wrapping spending bills into an omnibus.
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