The Senate Finance Committee completed debate on proposed health care legislation early Friday.
The Senate Finance Committee completed debate on proposed health-care legislation early Friday.
A Democratic Senate chairman at the heart of Capitol Hill's delicate health care negotiations announced Wednesday that he intends to unveil a long-awaited compromise reform bill from his committee next week.
The White House is quietly talking about drafting formal health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months, CNN has learned.
President Obama will address the contentious issue of health-care reform in a speech to a joint session of Congress on September 9, multiple Democratic sources said Wednesday.
In a way, the president really has no other choice but to finally speak -- and speak conclusively about what he wants in a health care reform bill.
The Obama administration is looking hard at pushing through a health care reform bill without Republican backing, top Democrats close to the White House have told CNN.
The Obama administration is looking hard at pushing through a health-care reform bill without Republican backing, top Democrats close to the White House have told CNN.
The lead Republican senator in bipartisan health care negotiations said Tuesday that he urged President Obama this month to make clear he would accept a bill without a government-funded public insurance option.
A key House committee passed comprehensive health care reform legislation Friday, moving President Obama's domestic priority one step closer to congressional approval.
The Senate Finance Committee completed debate on proposed health care legislation early Friday.
The Senate Finance Committee completed debate on proposed health-care legislation early Friday.
A Democratic Senate chairman at the heart of Capitol Hill's delicate health care negotiations announced Wednesday that he intends to unveil a long-awaited compromise reform bill from his committee next week.
The White House is quietly talking about drafting formal health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months, CNN has learned.
President Obama will address the contentious issue of health-care reform in a speech to a joint session of Congress on September 9, multiple Democratic sources said Wednesday.
In a way, the president really has no other choice but to finally speak -- and speak conclusively about what he wants in a health care reform bill.
The Obama administration is looking hard at pushing through a health care reform bill without Republican backing, top Democrats close to the White House have told CNN.
The Obama administration is looking hard at pushing through a health-care reform bill without Republican backing, top Democrats close to the White House have told CNN.
The lead Republican senator in bipartisan health care negotiations said Tuesday that he urged President Obama this month to make clear he would accept a bill without a government-funded public insurance option.
A key House committee passed comprehensive health care reform legislation Friday, moving President Obama's domestic priority one step closer to congressional approval.
It's the Republicans' turn to face the health care debate back home.
Town hall meetings continued Thursday with more members of Congress facing an onslaught of tough questions about health care reform plans.
President Obama's opposition to taxing employer-provided health benefits has slowed progress on passing a health care reform bill, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee complained Thursday.
The Senate Finance Committee has crafted a health care reform bill that is less than $1 trillion, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Montana, announced Thursday.
Negotiations between key Senate Democrats and Republicans over health insurance co-ops as an alternative to a government-run health plan were at an impasse as the parties faced off over how much federal government involvement there should be in the creation and running of the co-ops, according to senators and aides involved in the talks.
As the debate on how to fix health care picks up pace, so does discussion about one of the most lucrative ways to pay for it: Scale back the tax break that workers enjoy for health insurance.
Washington is a dangerous place for business leaders these days. "There's absolutely no political risk in rounding up the witches," says crisis consultant Eric Dezenhall, who likens today's Congress to a colonial Salem for corporate executives.
The officials charged with overseeing the $700 billion financial bailout told lawmakers Tuesday that the Treasury Department must do more to ensure that taxpayer dollars are properly spent and that the public is kept in the loop.
Monday night, we told you we would be profiling the villains of this crisis, those we think belong in our Rogue's Gallery. But what we are discovering the more we learn about AIG and the more willing we are to take a step back and look at the big picture, it becomes harder to pinpoint exactly where we should be directing our anger.
The recession's damage to Silicon Valley goes beyond falling stock prices and depressed profits.
President Obama warned Wednesday that failure to act immediately on his economic aid plan "will turn crisis into a catastrophe and guarantee a longer recession."
Democratic senators stood behind Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Tom Daschle Monday after a closed-door session of the Senate Finance Committee on the former South Dakota senator's tax troubles.
While politicians of all stripes are vying to be seen as saviors in the energy crisis, Congress isn't giving renewable energy investors the one thing they say would help the most - long-term tax credits.
The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks
If Bruce Ivins carried out the anthrax attacks in 2001, the scientific and forensic evidence should prove it. Scientists are asking why the FBI hasn't released that information
At precisely 100 years of age, the FBI is learning new tricks. It has no choice.
At precisely 100 years of age, the FBI is learning new tricks. It has no choice.
Key senators are asking questions about the recent pennies-on-the-dollar sale of investment firm Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase.
Key senators are asking questions about the recent pennies-on-the-dollar sale of investment firm Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase, a transaction made possible after the Federal Reserve backed it with billions in taxpayer dollars.
Georgia televangelist Creflo Dollar is refusing to turn over any more financial documents to the Senate Finance Committee, even though they are overdue.
A bitterly divided Senate panel Thursday approved a measure allowing all public U.S. Supreme Court proceedings to be televised despite fierce opposition from the justices.
A second Christian ministry is refusing to meet a Thursday deadline for a Senate investigation into preachers' salaries, perks and travel
As the Senate starts a probe of several "prosperity gospel" preachers, the presidential candidate stands by the one with the most question marks
Reports of dangerous side effects and deaths from widely used medicines almost tripled between 1998 and 2005, an analysis of U.S. drug data found
The unofficial candidate for the G.O.P. nomination visits the state fair and tries to play coy
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ignored or dropped leads and at times entire cases involving terrorist activities because of disputes with the FBI, says a report
To figure out whether you need to pay quarterly estimated federal taxes this year and avoid underpayment penalties, you need to have a sense of what your tax liability will be.
New requirements to track down, deport and permanently bar people who overstay their visas would be added to a broad immigration bill under a GOP bid to attract more Republican support
Tax-writing committees in Congress are weighing a curtailment of a little-known tax break that helps private equity firms and hedge funds cut their tax bills, according to a newspaper report published Thursday.
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The tax man is sniffing around private equity, the latest sign of the public scrutiny growing around the industry.
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced labeling changes for the antibiotic Ketek, stripping it of two previously approved indications and adding a black-box warning, the agency's strongest.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will consider a bill to get rid of Big Pharma's payoffs to generic drugmakers that keep their low-cost drugs off the market, according to the committee chairman.
A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced a bill calling for the death of the stealth tax that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized.
President Bush has promised to submit a five-year budget proposal to Congress that will achieve a balanced budget by 2012 and make permanent his tax cuts.
A leading senator says Congress is looking at reducing or even eliminating a lucrative tax deduction that make companies more likely to grant stock options, according to a published report.
After it failed to convince India, Brazil and some other trade partners to give more market access to American products, the United States is thinking about revoking trade benefits to some of these countries.
I don't get it. What's the percentage in keeping the minimum wage at $5.15 an hour? After nine years? This is such an unnecessary and nasty Republican move. Congress has voted seven times to raise its own wages since last the minimum wage budged. Of course, Congress always raises its own salary in the dark of night, hoping no one will notice. But now it does the same with the minimum wage, quietly killing it.
Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is hoping to stamp out the sex trade by taxing pimps and prostitutes, then jailing them when they don't pay.
After losing several court battles, the U.S. Treasury on Thursday said it would provide refunds to consumers for a federal excise "luxury" tax on long-distance service, the origins of which date back to 1898 to help pay for the Spanish-American War.
The Senate on Thursday passed a GOP-supported final tax reconciliation bill that extends the reduced tax rates on capital gains and dividends, and prevents millions of households from falling prey to the alternative minimum tax (AMT) in 2006.
The House passed a GOP-supported final tax reconciliation bill Wednesday that extends the reduced tax rates on capital gains and dividends, and prevents millions of households from falling prey to the alternative minimum tax (AMT) in 2006.
Tax writers on Tuesday reached official agreement on a tax reconciliation bill that will extend the reduced tax rates on capital gains and dividends and prevent millions of households from falling prey to the alternative minimum tax (AMT).
Most American taxpayers would get $100 rebate checks to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote soon.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - After a meeting of key tax writers Monday evening, the word is lawmakers are making progress but still are not ready to seal a deal on the final details of a tax reconciliation bill that has been hotly debated for months.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Despite the optimism expressed by lawmakers that they were "very close" to striking a deal Thursday, negotiations on a much delayed tax reconciliation package stalled Thursday night.
The last remaining U.S. independent counsel, David Barrett, after spending $21 million over 10 years, on January 12 finally will close down his investigation of former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros' lying to FBI investigators about hush money paid to an ex-mistress. The political significance is that the Barrett report's shocking allegations of high-level corruption in the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department are likely to be concealed from the public and from Congress.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - There's been a heated debate going on around the Beltway about whether to impose a "windfall profit tax" on the oil industry, which has profited handsomely from soaring oil prices earlier this year.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The tax panels of the House and Senate each passed tax bills Tuesday evening that differ in two key ways: Only the House version calls for an extension of the reduced rates on capital gains and dividends; while only the Senate version calls for major AMT relief in 2006.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - After postponing its vote three times in less than a week, the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday looks set to vote on a proposed tax bill that has one big change from the original.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Instead of including a provision for major AMT relief in 2006, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) opted instead to propose a two-year extension of reduced tax rates on capital gains and dividends in a tax bill he introduced late Thursday.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday postponed its vote on a $68.8 billion, five-year tax reconciliation bill, according to published reports.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Forget tax reform for a moment. Of more immediate concern to lawmakers this week is whether they'll extend a number of tax breaks, most notably investment tax breaks and AMT relief.
Social Security system reforms may have to wait until 2009, the Republican Senator leading the effort said Tuesday.
The Senate was up to its old tricks Monday evening.
IT IS AMERICA'S MOST HATED, INEFFECTIVE, INSIDIOUS tax--and it's just too strong to be killed. That has been the case, in any event, for at least a decade. But now it's possible--just barely possib...
United Airlines used loopholes in federal pension laws to treat its pension funds as solid for years, when in fact they were dangerously weakening, according to a published report.
State and federal prosecutors are investigating 150 cases of alleged pricing fraud by some of the world's largest drug makers, according to a published report.
Like any government agency that has been around for almost a century, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has endured its share of rough patches. But "rough patch" hardly begins to describe all the bad news that has battered the agency over the past few months, from the possible suicide risks with antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft to the cardiac risks of pain-killers like Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra.
It has been less than a month since George W. Bush began getting specific about his plans to reform Social Security, but bookmakers in Washington are lengthening the odds of its passage.
During the Senate's investigation of the recall of Merck's pain reliever Vioxx, a veteran Food and Drug Administration drug safety scientist said Americans are virtually defenseless under the current system. That's simply unacceptable.
President Bush on Friday approved a bill that would extend the deductibility of donations made for tsunami disaster relief.
Congress on Thursday approved a bill that would extend the deductibility of donations made for tsunami disaster relief.
Americans have reacted to the tsunami disaster in Asia with an outpouring of giving to a variety of charities -- the American Red Cross alone has already received $92 million in pledges.
Today's the day for forking over your taxes to the U.S. government, if you haven't already.
Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley has asked the Pentagon to explain why it continues to use camouflage fabrics recently found to contain prohibited toxins, according to a letter obtained by CNN that was dated Tuesday.
You might think that after two tax cuts in less than three years, totaling a whopping $1.6 trillion, Congress would be content that it had left its mark on the economy. But you'd be wrong. There ar...
Easily the most wonderful moment in the history of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) occurred on the Senate floor late in 1989 when Congress was debating the act, which will soon become ope...
THE PHONE RINGS at home late one evening. At first your caller will not give his name. After you have assured him three times that your office is confidential, you are asked to an early morning bre...
IF CONGRESS ever gets around to passing a tax reform bill, it will be no thanks to at least five of the 20 members of the Senate Finance Committee. To them tax reform is as welcome as humidity in W...
WHEN CONGRESS reconvenes in late January, a lot of well-heeled political action committees (PACs) will be targeting the Senate Finance Committee, which will decide the fate of the tax reform bill p...
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