Topic: U.S. Congressional Budget Office

New GPS Promises Stronger Signals

The future of the U.S. Global Positioning System is taking shape in a vast white room south of Denver, where workers are piecing together the first...
CBS treated claims from Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney that the tax cuts they have proposed would increase federal tax revenue as an open question...

Medicare savings ideas have missed the mark

There's some bad news for those looking for easy ways to trim Medicare spending.. . The Congressional Budget Office says two major approaches ...

2012-Oriented Pols Will Stall on Economy

Chad Stone is chief economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.. . The United States faces daunting economic and budget challenges...

U.S. Gov't On Pace For Smaller Deficit In 2012

The federal deficit was lower in the first quarter of the budget year than the same period last year.. . That's modest progress for a nation that...

US On Pace To Run Budget Deficit To 4-Year Low

The federal government is on pace to run a deficit below $1 trillion for the first time in four years, modest progress in the face of intense...

A State of Denial

Toward the end of his State of the Union address, President Obama delivered a paragraph that was so blatantly absurd and self contradictory as to...
If you're interested in understanding the country's budgetary woes - beyond the fact we've racked up a substantial deficit - you might want to...
Finger-pointing, and not always the index digit, is standard operating procedure in Washington, D.C.And the blame game is in high gear this Monday...
For better or for worse, we'll know on Nov. 23 what we get, or don't get, from the special Congressional deficit panel.The Joint Select Committee...