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The United States Conference of Mayors has written a letter signed by 149 mayors across the country, a bipartisan collection including the likes of...

Yesterday, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee held a joint hearing on tax reform and the tax treatment of capital...

On Bloomberg Government's "Capitol Gains" show, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) endorsed at least the Simpson-Bowles outline as the starting point for...

Even as lawmakers call for broadening the tax base, it seems like they keep proposing to narrow it. In the latest edition, there appears to be...

Today Campaign to Fix the Debt co-chairs Judd Gregg and Ed Rendell were joined by Purple Nation founders Michael Steele and Lanny Davis in a letter to...

The Senate Finance Committee will hold a mark-up of the Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act tomorrow at 10 am. The Act would retroactively...

The Council on Foreign Relations has joined in on those warning of the dangers of the fiscal cliff due to hit early January and unsustainable rising...

Yesterday the Senate voted on two highly polarized tax plans, with a Democratic version passing 51-48 while the Republican supported bill failing to...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addressed Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday and the House Finance Committee yesterday with more warnings about...

A few members of Congress are now proposing House-Senate working groups to try and negotiate a compromise that would avoid the squester. From The Hill...

Former Director of the CBO Alice Rivlin and Former Sen. Pete Domenici testified today to the Senate Finance Committee on the long-term debt problem...

Earlier this week, about a third of the Senate met to open a bipartisan discussion about comprehensive fiscal reform and the impending fiscal cliff...