Saluting Service – Today we salute those who have served the United States in the military with a federal holiday. While many have a day off...

The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, posted a short educational video explaining the national debt today. In a...

It has been one week since the budget conference committee's first meeting, and many are speculating that the committee could realistically come up...

It's no secret that a significant portion of the federal budget is devoted to our national defense and insurance programs like Social Security...

All eyes are on the budget conference committee, which has a myriad of options available to consider as it negotiates this year's budget resolution...

This is the fourteenth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...

Sugar Crash – Another Halloween has come and gone. Many kids (and adults) have been quickly going through their sugar-filled loot. Eventually, the...

The Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Committees, last week, released a bipartisan, bicameral discussion draft of a proposal to permanently...

With conference committee meetings underway, many are weighing in with their take on what should be accomplished. On Friday, Fareed Zakaria at CNN...

As lawmakers look to replace the sequester with smarter deficit reduction, it may be tempting to look for easy ways out. Unfortunately in recent...

Update: This blog has been updated to include the Mid-Session Review and CBO projections for the 2013 deficit. Yesterday, the Treasury Department and...

Yesterday, the Social Security Administration announced that beneficiaries will be receiving a 1.5 percent Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) this year...