Budget

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) says his party has been emboldened by massive Protests against his Controversial Budget plan. Walker said demonstrators who filled the State Capitol building in Madison and the Boycott by state Senate Democrats R…

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she supports the Democratic state senators in Wisconsin who left the state to stop a vote on curbing Collective Bargaining rights for unionized Public Employees. After earlier voicing solidarity…

The Republican Study Committee is the bloc of Conservatives in the House. After the House GOP agreed to a 5 percent reduction in the operational allowance for member and committee offices, the RSC's chairman Jim Jordan has proposed further cuts. R…

A floor debate on a conservative Budget proposal exposed sharp disagreements among Republicans on Friday, with GOP lawmakers at times directly confronting each other in a rare moment of public discord over just how far Congress should go in seekin…

That's what the NYT thinks: Just last month, [Gov. Walker] and the [Wisconsin] Legislature gave away $117 million in Tax Breaks, mostly for businesses that expand and for private health savings accounts. That was a choice lawmakers made, and had …

The past week has done an enormous amount to illuminate the contours of the struggle for fiscal sanity in America. It is increasingly clear that one party is committed to denying the reality of the challenges we face and wants instead to bury its …

During the riots in Greece last year over Budget cuts, a common refrain was, “There’s no Tea Party movement in Europe; America is different.” Well, now is the moment to test this proposition. If ever there was a time for the Tea …

Last week, after agreeing to include a full $100 billion worth of Spending Cuts in a continuing resolution to fund the government for the remainder of the year, House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) said: “There’s no limit to the amoun…