Oversight

No drama spending bill glides through House panel

Rules Committee spends less than 10 minutes on the stopgap measure.

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

The deal, point by point

An outline of the debt ceiling deal.

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.