At the bipartisan health-care summit scheduled for February 25th, President Obama is pledging to champion the voluminous bills passed by the House and Senate as the foundation for reforming the $2.2 trillion medical marketplace.
The Transportation Security Administration is upgrading security clearances for 10,000 of its airport personnel, giving them access to "secret" intelligence to help them better detect threats and stop terrorists, the agency said Friday.
Despite the "palpable level of angst" that a source described over an al Qaeda threat against the United States, the national terror threat level remains at "Elevated" or "Yellow" -- where it has been stuck since 2005.
Getting health reform passed and getting health reform right are two very different things.
Taxpayers stand to lose between $100 billion and $200 billion on TARP -- Treasury's $700 billion financial market bailout.
Louise Schiavone reports on some key positions still to be filled in the Obama administration.
In the eyes of the world, President Bush is a bully engaging in "cowboy diplomacy" who has hurt America's image abroad or a liberator who has freed millions from tyranny.
City officials and community activists can't wait to get their hands on nearly $4 billion the federal government is about to inject into blighted neighborhoods suffering from record foreclosures.
America's middle class is increasingly squeezed by sagging incomes and soaring expenses, experts told Congress on Wednesday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads to Asia next week amid signs of an imminent breakthrough in efforts to get North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons
With most Americans doing a lousy job saving for their Golden Years, Barack Obama says the government has to step in.
CNN takes you behind the scenes of a homeland security expo.
Though it looks like a space-aged android playing the harmonica, it's actually a device designed to protect you in a biological or chemical attack.
The Bush administration was hoping to spend the early hours of 2008 poring over a new document from the North Koreans: a full list of its nuclear secrets. No such luck.
President Bush on Thursday urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to move quickly to approve his nominee for attorney general, saying it's crucial to national security to fill the position.
Terrorism is changing international trade patterns and costing business money.
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are set to take action on legislation that could determine the financial and social fate of nearly every American for the next 20 years.
There's no end to the analogies used to describe just how broken the federal tax system is. It's been likened it to an overbuilt house that's crumbling, a floor littered with too much garbage, and a blackboard with no space left to write.
On August 30, 2001, then majority whip Tom DeLay, his wife, his staff and two Florida Republican House members arrived in Malaysia on what was billed as an educational trip.
Outlining his agenda for the next four years, President Bush said reforming the tax system is one of the main goals of his second term. But by offering few details, Bush has raised speculation that his administration might be considering radical changes, such as replacing the current progressive system with a flat tax on income or a national sales tax.
This summer's travel season is expected to be the busiest in years, but with warnings of a possible terror attack inside the United States, security concerns will also be high.
CNNMoney: Homeland insecurityupdated: Fri Jun 04 2004 13:38:00
This summer's travel season is expected to be the busiest in years, but with warnings of a possible terror attack inside the United States, security concerns will also be high.
Republicans have long claimed to be fiscal tightwads and railed against deficit spending. But this year big-spending George W. Bush and the GOP Congress turned a budget surplus into a $477 billion...
FSB: Seeing Red Tapeupdated: Mon Mar 01 2004 00:01:00
Not all of president bush's critics are Democrats. "I guess the word I have to use is 'disappointing,'" says James Gattuso, who researches regulatory policy at the conservative Heritage Foundation....
Fortune: Hey Big Spenderupdated: Mon Dec 22 2003 00:01:00
It's no surprise that federal spending has ballooned recently--it's up 16% since 2001 and this year hit $20,000 per household for the first time since World War II. The surprise? According to a new...
Bill Gates may still be as socially liberal as any of the sandal wearers at Microsoft (he has been a donor to left-leaning causes in Washington State, including groups that advocate gun control and...
Fortune: Tax-Cut Kabukiupdated: Mon Sep 06 1999 00:01:00
All summer long Washington has burned over the issue of a tax cut: How big should it be? Who should get it? How will it affect the economy? The debate is certain to smolder into the fall. But in al...
With all the proposals for privatizing Social Security flying around, you'd think Wall Street would be stupefied with greed and euphoria. Billions of dollars flowing out of the Treasury and into eq...
Ronald Reagan's favorite D.C. think tank may be going native. The Heritage Foundation, long a critic of Big Government, is pushing a proposal that would actually add a new agency to the federal bur...
To FOLKS in nearby Yoakum, Texas, Jim Bohan is just another struggling rancher. But to his compatriots on the Internet, he is Lobo Azul, Spanish for Blue Wolf, and a master of the new world of cybe...
In this Yuletide season, one of the most fanciful creations is the Clinton Administration's rosy estimate of how it will pay for its health care plan. But the government's own behind-the-scenes num...
Another year is beginning on campus, so we turn to a question that has long engaged the minds and hearts of the best and brightest in academe: Which American college has the prettiest girls? Our pr...
The Republican platform contains an almost eloquent passage about the evils of government regulation. Headed ''Liberation Through Deregulation,'' it assails the infamous ''iron triangle'' -- specia...
A fortnight ago, some wisenheimer observed in this space that the U.S. lawyer population was growing at a 3.64% annual rate, which, if sustained, would result in the country's having more lawyers t...
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...
As always happens during ''pledge week'' on public television, the latest round (mid-March) featured a certain amount of bitter back talk by your servant anytime the babbling pitchpersons came on-s...
A specter is haunting America in the Nineties: the specter of debt. A mountain of unsustainable debt threatens to transform the U.S. from a global into a regional power, to trigger large-scale and ...
Despite White House efforts to quash New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's plan to slash payroll taxes by $62 billion over two years, support is spreading like wildfire on both side...
Fortune: A business summitupdated: Mon Jan 04 1988 00:01:00
Ever the negotiator, Mikhail Gorbachev pitched his plans for joint ventures to about 70 top American executives in Washington during summit week. The deal: He will cut red tape, making it easier fo...
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 ...
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