Budget Process

As lawmakers gear up to debate immigration reform in the weeks and months ahead, it will likely coincide with the ongoing budget debate in Washington...

Among the many amendments that were voted on to the Senate budget resolution, one caught the eye of POLITICO: Sen. Rob Portman's (R-OH) amendment to...

As the Senate worked on its FY 2014 budget resolution, which passed by a 50-49 vote late last week, hundreds of amendments were filed in a process...

Today, Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) unveiled a new feature on her Committee's website called MyBudget, which allows constituents...

Update: The Bipartisian Policy Center has created an interactive debt ceiling timeline, which can be found here. Today the House passed a temporary...

The House is pressing forward this week on debt ceiling legislation that contains a few different moving parts. The bill would buy lawmakers some more...

In an op-ed in the Hill, former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) is calling on Congressional Republicans not to use the debt ceiling as leverage for...

CRFB President Maya MacGuineas has an idea for the debt ceiling: instead of gaming out a potential default (which would be disasterous) or using some...

With the Treasury Department undertaking extraordinary measures to avoid a potential default, the Concord Coalition is calling for both raising and...

Donald Marron points out, via an old "West Wing" clip, how raising the debt limit used to be seen. Of course, contrast that to now, when we see...