Senate

Bipartisan discussions over how to end the partial government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling are coming down to the wire as this week begins...

Today, the Fix the Debt Campaign's Congressional Fiscal Leadership Council released an open letter signed by a group of 120 former Members of Congress...

While it is incredibly disappointing that elected officials in Washington failed to avoid a government shutdown, attention is quickly turning towards...

Last week, Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) introduced legislation that would increase taxes on multinational companies, and suggested that the revenue...

Congress faces a number of looming fiscal crises this fall, and the first obstacle is just around the corner -- if lawmakers fail to pass legislation...

Yesterday, CRFB praised the recent bipartisan agreement to enact a permanent fix for student loans instead of another temporary and costly solution...

After weeks of deliberation and two and a half weeks after a key deadline passed, we finally have a deal on student loans. A bipartisan group of...

The appropriations process is usually arduous, but this year may be even more so. The largest disagreement between the Senate and House, which is...

According to press reports today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are about to take a very...

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released two analyses, a cost estimate and an economic analysis, of the Senate's immigration bill -- S.744...

The Senate Finance Committee has been busy churning out options papers on various tax reform topics (we wrote previously about their economic security...

Last week, the Senate Finance Committee released a seventh report in a series of papers examining the federal tax code and options for comprehensive...