It's time to stop worrying about the deficit - and start panicking about the debt. ...more

December 15, 2009

Late last week, while still celebrating the passage of its health care reform bill a month ago, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a little-noticed measure that would increase the payments made to doctors under Medicare. ...more

November 27, 2009

Robert W. Wilson of Tarpon Springs appreciates budget cuts made by City Commission and City Manager Mark LeCouris. ...more

February 28, 2009

House Democrats unveiled a $410 billion spending bill on Monday ...more

February 23, 2009

President Barack Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half during the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on business and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration officials said. ...more

February 22, 2009

President Barack Obama's wants to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term, mostly by scaling back Iraq war spending, raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans and streamlining government, an administration official said Saturday as the president worked to finalize his first budget request. ...more

February 21, 2009

I will never forget how I felt two weeks ago when I watched Barack Obama celebrating with more than a hundred thousand in Chicago, tens of millions across our nation, and millions more around the world. Now, Congress has to ensure that we live up to the possibility of that day, and the promise of this moment in history. ...more

November 23, 2008

The draining of the trust fund for highways, and an emergency transfer of general tax dollars into it, exemplify much of what is going wrong in Washington. ...more

September 16, 2008

In this year's school board races, voters have an easy choice and a frustrating one. ...more

August 2, 2008

The House easily overrode President Bush's veto of a $307 billion farm bill Wednesday night, handing him the most significant legislative rebuff of his presidency after Republicans broke with the White House en masse to side with farm groups, anti-hunger advocates and the biofuels industry. ...more

May 22, 2008