January 7 - Congress Narrowly Averts Fiscal Cliff |
January 7 - Fiscal Policy Deadlines in 2013 |
January 7 - New Cast, Same Old Plot |
January 7 - Other Big Issues for 2013 |
January 7 - Taxes, Spending in Year-End Agreement |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Financial Services Appropriations |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2013 Budget Resolution |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Fiscal Cliff: Taxes and Sequester |
January 14 - 2012 Legislative Summary: Postal Service Overhaul |
January 14 - Political Class: Inside the Lexicon of Washington |
January 21 - Ceiling Their Fate |
January 21 - Key House Vote of 2012: Fiscal 2013 Budget Resolution |
January 21 - Key House Vote of 2012: Sequester Replacement |
January 21 - Key House Vote of 2012: Student Loans |
January 21 - Key House Vote of 2012: Tax Rates Extension |
January 21 - Key Senate Vote of 2012: Fiscal 2013 Budget Resolution |
January 21 - Key Senate Vote of 2012: Sandy Emergency Relief |
January 21 - Key Senate Vote of 2012: Tax Rates Extension |
January 21 - Lawmakers Play SimCrisis |
January 28 - Federal Workers: Drop Contracts, Not Us |
January 28 - For Economists, Austerity Can Wait |
January 28 - Short-Term Debt Ceiling Relief Passes in House |
February 4 - Debt Limit Deadline Postponed Until May 19 as Senate Clears Bill |
February 11 - Health Services Research: Esoteric or Essential? |
February 11 - Obama, Congress Differ on Recommendations Clause |
February 11 - Sequester Debate Begins Again |
February 18 - Pay Freeze Wins House Passage by Wide Margin |
February 18 - Right on the Money |
February 25 - Sequester Frustration |
February 25 - The Aging Population: A Crisis in Plain Sight |
March 4 - How the Sequester Will Be Implemented |
March 4 - No Shortage of Sequester Proposals, Just a Shortage of Agreement |
March 4 - On the Cutting-Room Floor |
March 11 - Continuing Irresolution |
March 11 - Discretionary Default: Sequester Hits Hardest on Yearly Appropriations |
March 11 - Pentagon Can Withstand Cuts, Conservative Groups Say |
March 11 - Stopgap Spending Bill Passes in House |
March 18 - A Tale of Two Budget Plans |
March 18 - Conservative Groups Boo CR Vote |
March 18 - Hard Cuts for Soft Science? |
March 18 - Sequester Bites Into Medicare Abuse Savings |
March 25 - The Great Divide, in Red and White |
March 25 - Trying to Stay 'Army Strong' |
April 8 - Change for the Dollar? |
April 8 - Don't Blame the Budget Process; It's Politics |
April 8 - Fund Treads Water as Needs Swell |
April 8 - Hatch to CMS: Waist Not on Treadmill Desks |
April 8 - Looking to Patch Holes in Transportation Policy |
April 8 - Posturing During Vote-a-Rama May Prove Prophetic |
April 8 - Stark Differences in Budget Plans Define Terms of Battle Ahead |
April 8 - States' Infrastructure Financing Ideas May Gain Traction |
April 15 - Budget Has Small Surprises, but No Devils in the Details |
April 15 - Budget Negotiation: Opening the Door |
April 15 - Budget Sees Further Lift for a Rising Economy |
April 15 - Defense: Pentagon Budget Request Dodges Tough Decisions |
April 15 - Energy: For Obama and GOP, Varied Interpretations of 'All of the Above' |
April 15 - Grass Roots Outgrown |
April 15 - Health: Shortfall Could Boost Republican Efforts to Kill Exchanges |
April 15 - Highlights of Obama's Budget Request |
April 15 - Highlights of Obama's Tax Proposals |
April 22 - Bonus Babies at the Top |
April 29 - Budget Balancing Act |
April 29 - House Bill Would Require Priority Payments if Debt Ceiling Is Reached |
April 29 - House Passes Bill to Shift FAA Funds; Senate Action Expected This Week |
May 6 - For Fiscal Bargaining, Like Starting Over |
May 6 - Pleas to Keep National Parks Open |
May 13 - An End to the Jailhouse Blues? |
May 13 - CPI Critics Unchained |
May 13 - Default Prevention Passes House |
May 20 - A New Way of Business for a New Deal Success? |
May 20 - Mullen: Meet the No. 1 Enemy |
June 3 - Bringing Sand to the Beach |
June 3 - Spending Gridlock Builds Pathways to Sequester |
June 3 - Split on Reconciliation |
June 3 - Stuck on Sequester |
June 10 - Defense Authorization Flouts Limits |
June 10 - Saving Money Has Its Costs |
June 10 - Zombie Bases Prove Hard to Kill |
June 17 - An Eye on the Azores |
June 17 - Special Rules for Special Ops |
June 24 - Bills Aim to Alter CBO's Method of Scoring Legislation |
July 15 - CBO Report Surprises Lawmakers, Scuttles Deal on Student Loans |
July 15 - Europe Rethinking Austerity Policy |
July 29 - Federal Unions Fight Furloughs |
July 29 - Gitmo's Costly Confinement |
July 29 - House Bill Would Give D.C. More Budget Leeway |
July 29 - Tentative Steps Taken in Search for New Doctor Reimbursement Plan |
September 9 - Cost and Flexibility |
September 9 - End of the 'Doc Fix' Era? |
September 9 - Furlough Fears Fizzle |
September 9 - The Future Is No Big Deal |
September 9 - The Politics of Federal Pay |
September 16 - A Creative Financing Solution in the Debt Limit Debate |
September 16 - Debt Limit Increases, by the Numbers |
September 16 - GOP Divided Over Spending Plans |
September 16 - The GOP's Food for Thought on SNAP |
September 23 - Highlights of the House's Fiscal 2014 Continuing Resolution |
September 23 - House CR Would Gut Health Care Law |
September 23 - Shutdown Showdown |
September 23 - The High Price of 'Defunding' |
September 30 - Once More Unto the Brink |
September 30 - Shifting Funds for Clean Air |
September 30 - Smaller, but Smarter: The Military's Chance to Remake Itself |
September 30 - The Debt Limit: Other, Heavier Shoe About to Drop? |
October 7 - 'Shutdown' Is Open to Interpretation |
October 7 - Fiscal Crisis Watch, Week 1: Consequences |
October 7 - Fiscal Crisis Watch, Week 1: Timeline |
October 7 - GOP Looks Beyond Shutdown |
October 14 - Desperately Seeking Fiscal Solutions |
October 14 - Memory Clash on Shutdowns |
October 14 - Treasury Insecurities |
October 21 - As It Backs Away From Fiscal Crisis, Congress Names Budget Conferees |
October 21 - Battle Over, but 'War' Continues |
October 21 - Cardinals With Clipped Wings |
October 21 - Fiscal Crisis Watch, Week 3: Republicans' Diminishing Demands |
October 21 - Fiscal Crisis Watch, Week 3: The Ripple Effects |
October 21 - Fiscal Crisis Watch, Week 3: Timeline |
October 21 - GOP Goal: Tighten Reins on Treasury Tactics |
October 21 - Health Care Change Is Less Than Meets the Eye |
October 21 - Highlights of the Continuing Resolution and Debt Limit Deal |
October 21 - Interest Groups Eye 'Grand Bargain' With Alarm |
October 21 - Trying Not to Crash the Party |
October 28 - Appropriations: Top Line May Be Within Easy Reach |
October 28 - Broad Appeal for a Big Fix to Doctor Payments |
October 28 - Entitlements: White Whale, Meet Sacred Cow |
October 28 - Fiscal Crisis Watch, Week 4: Intermission |
November 4 - Budget Talks Could Bring Limited Deal |
November 4 - Residency's Cost, Medicare's Role |
November 4 - Ryan's Conference With Consequence |
November 4 - The Doc Cap |
November 11 - Adjusting the Breadth of the Social Safety Net |
November 11 - Fire on the Mountains |
November 11 - Japan: Between a Pivot and a Hard Place |
November 11 - Watchdog: Scott Klinger |
November 18 - Invasive Species: Expensive Fights, Extensive Effects |
December 2 - Conferees Aim Low to Avoid Missing |
December 2 - House Passes Bill to Establish Federal Spending Website |
December 9 - Groundwork, but No Deals Yet on Budget, Farm Bill, 'Doc Fix' |
December 9 - Preserving Nature Isn't a Walk in the Park |
December 16 - Boehner Draws 'A Line in the Sand' |
December 16 - Budget Deal Moves to Senate |
December 16 - Chambers Progress on Repeal of 'Doc Fix' |
December 16 - Compromise Is No Big Deal |
December 16 - Defense Bill Set for Final Passage |
December 16 - Highlights of the Budget Agreement |
December 16 - Paycheck Politics: Pro-Obama Veterans Group Opposes Budget Trims |