Sen. John Kyl, one of the members of the special congressional committee set up to create a $1.5 trillion budget-reduction plan, said Thursday those cuts should come out of programs like Medicare and Social Security -- not defense.
With just weeks before he bids farewell to Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates Tuesday fired off a final barrage in the budget battles, saying keeping quiet would be "managerial cowardice."
Let's hope children aren't watching C-SPAN these days.
In the wake of the crisis in Japan, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers to beware of inadvertently buying fake iodide products that are supposed to help protect against radiation.
A House hearing Wednesday entitled "Are Federal Workers Underpaid?" could be the first step in a new legislative assault on federal worker pay.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the author of "Nomad: From Islam to America, A Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations." A native of Somalia, she later moved to Holland to escape an arranged marriage, and eventually became a member of the Dutch parliament. In 2005, she was named one of Time Magazine's People of the Year. This outspoken critic of Islam moved to the United States to join the American Enterprise Institute and wrote her autobiography, "Infidel." In this interview, a woman who has been threatened with death shares the biggest obstacle she has overcome.
Nima has felt the force of a club come crashing down on his body in three separate beatings by Islamic security forces over the past year.
Nearly 90 professors at Iran's oldest and largest university signed a letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticizing the government's violent handling of student protesters.
Starting Jan. 1, new rules go into effect that simplify and clarify exactly what mortgage lenders will charge for a loan.
An Iranian reformist Web site on Friday released the identities of 72 people it says were killed by government forces in the aftermath of Iran's disputed presidential elections.
For almost 50 years, Sen. Ted Kennedy pushed unsuccessfully for legislation that would reform the health care system and ensure coverage for every American.
A new government investigative panel charged with getting to the bottom of what caused the financial crisis was assembled on Wednesday, and its chairman vowed to begin work soon.
President Obama should reach out to Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi as tensions in Iran over the disputed presidential elections continue to heighten, a former Bush administration official told CNN Sunday.
When the White House first got wind of the executive bonuses at American International Group, the disbelief was palpable.
Congressional Democrats have a bigger majority than they've enjoyed in decades, but that doesn't necessarily mean there will be unity on Capitol Hill.
The reset button has been pushed on the global financial system - and that changes everything for the next president.
The 35-year-old former Goldman Sachs banker will head up the U.S. Treasury's $700 billion bailout fund
The number of Americans without health insurance decreased last year as more people signed up for government coverage, while the nation's median income rose slightly to $50,233, new government figures show.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Monday asked Congress to step in and define the rules that will govern civilian court hearings for about 200 detainees being held in the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Sylvain Raynes, Joshua Rosner, and Christopher Whalen are the power trio that has come to personify today's collapsing capital markets.
Freddie Mac is the latest beneficiary of wishful thinking about the housing market.
President and Mrs. George W. Bush reported taxable income of $719, 274 for the tax year 2007 and paid $221,635 in federal income taxes, the White House said Friday.
A proposal to bail out subprime mortgage borrowers who are at risk of foreclosure was floated at a Senate Banking Committee hearing Thursday.
The first minimum wage increase in 10 years takes effect Tuesday, to $5.85 from $5.15 an hour, with two more steps over the next two years taking base pay for millions of workers to $7.25.
Fred Kagan tells TIME.com there are signs of progress, but September is too soon to judge if the surge has succeeded
A House Ways and Means subcommittee held hearings on the fixing the alternative minimum tax this afternoon.
A coalition helicopter went down in southeastern Afghanistan early Sunday after reporting an engine failure, according to a statement issued by the coalition headquarters in Bagram.
NATO nations need to increase the number of troops they send to Afghanistan, President Bush said in a speech Thursday.
A think tank partly funded by Exxon Mobil sent letters to scientists offering them up to $10,000 to critique findings in a major global warming study released Friday which found that global warming was real and likely caused by burning fossil fuels.
In an about-face, the Bush administration announced this week it is tossing out its rallying cry for the Iraq war.
The Dutch government is expected to resign on Friday after a coalition party withdrew its support in a row over the country's immigration minister.
The debate over Social Security reform has taken a backseat -- in the nosebleed section -- to other issues on the Hill this year. And it's likely to remain there at least until the mid-term elections in November are over.
Cheneys Risingupdated: Mon Apr 04 2005 17:56:00
Members of the Vice Presidents family are nabbing government promotions and book deals.
A major overhaul of the tax code will be pushed aside to next year as the Bush administration grapples with the president's pledge to overhaul Social Security and a budget plan that demands difficult cuts to non-defense spending, a newspaper report said Tuesday.
War over the warupdated: Mon Sep 20 2004 16:32:00
"George Bush has not told the truth to the American people about why we went to war and how the war is going. I have and I will continue to do so," John Kerry said Monday.
It is Jan. 20, 2005. A suitcase nuclear bomb explodes on the National Mall during an Inaugural ceremony. The incoming President and Vice President, the incoming cabinet (none yet sworn in), the ent...
They're back--big, fat, eye-popping deficits. So does that mean higher interest rates are around the corner? The Bush administration has an answer, albeit a heretical one. "I don't buy that there's...
To the extent we believe anything about politics, it's this: The economy has an overwhelming influence on voters' choices. James Carville summed it up in 1992 with the phrase "It's the economy, stu...
Washington has a new growth industry: fixing Social Security. Almost every think tank and interest group in town has a Social Security project under way. The Cato Institute has budgeted $3 million ...
There's only one fact investors need to know about the stock market right now: You're living on borrowed time. "You could characterize today's market as a sort of financial bubble," says investment...
The American economy is striding into its 49th month of expansion, coming off a year in which it grew 4.1%, unemployment fell to 5.4%, and profits, investment, and exports all boomed. Americans nev...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THIS updated: Mon Apr 06 1992 00:01:00
NORMAN J. ORNSTEIN, 43, of the American Enterprise Institute, a private Washington, D.C., research group: ''We have got a world that is clearly going to be dominated more by geoeconomics than by ge...
It's terrific that the 20th century is ending as it began, with democratic capitalism ascendant. Prospects for a less bloody, more prosperous world have rarely been brighter. But it's also worth re...
DID THE first-quarter speedup in productivity growth herald the long-awaited turnaround in this fundamental measure of economic progress? The short answer is no, the longer answer yes. Productivity...
TWENTY-TWO years after the opening shot in the War on Poverty, most Americans have given up hope of victory. According to a recent opinion poll, the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that ...
IN THE GALAXY of Washington think tanks, the archconservative Heritage Foundation is eclipsing its rivals. From privatization to Star Wars, Heritage prescriptions have become Reagan Administration ...
''I'M UP TO my elbows in alligators,'' says James C. Miller III, after two months as director of the Office of Management and Budget. He also has other fauna to contend with as he tries to trim som...
Ben J. Wattenberg, a scholar-journalist based at the American Enterprise Institute, has been tirelessly arguing a rather curious proposition for the past 15 years or so. Proposition: things are rea...
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