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Next week, the Senate Finance Committee will likely approve a bill designed to overhaul insurance, putting Congress another step closer to restructuring the nation's health care system.
The Congressional Budget Office is the non-partisan budget estimator for Congress. It calculates how much each piece of proposed legislation would cost the taxpayers.
The senators who are debating Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus's bill this week are trying to walk a fine line: how to cut spending on Medicare Advantage, while not alienating the seniors in their own states who are happy with the plans.
The fate of President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul could lie in the hands of centrist Democrats like Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly, whose constituents seem wary of doing too much, too fast.
When you saw Ted Kennedy walk off the Senate floor, you inevitably thought of his long Senate career, his relentless political warfare against Republicans, his brushes with death and disaster, a
GOSHEN, Ind. - For weeks now, 2-year-old Ashley Soto's hair has been falling out in clumps and bunches.
Both those Americans who can’t afford to buy health insurance and those who have decided to get by without it will face the same order from congressional Democrats as they prepare legislation to overhaul health care: buy health insurance. And if they can’t afford the coverage, taxpayers will help them pay for it.
Both those Americans who can’t afford to buy health insurance and those who have decided to get by without it will face the same order from congressional Democrats as they prepare legislation to overhaul health care: buy health insurance. And if they can’t afford the coverage, taxpayers will help them pay for it.
- As the young Obama administration spends trillions of dollars in its effort to turn around the nation’s economy and revive the U.S. auto industry, the American public is concerned about the size of the budget deficit and the government’s intervention into the private sector, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.
Should detainees the United States has shipped to the Bagram air base in Afghanistan have the same constitutional right to challenge their detention in court that prisoners at the Guantanamo prison in Cuba have been given?
Given the Democrats’ majority in the Senate, it seems likely President Barack Obama's Supreme court nominee will be serving on the court when it begins its 2009-2010 term in October.
The drum beat from senators has been growing this week: President Barack Obama, they say, ought to nominate to the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice David Souter a person with practical political experience.
ELKHART, Ind. - The Obama administration’s economic stimulus bill has led to the creation of at least one new job in this Midwestern city: a summer staffer who will help officials cope with the paperwork avalanche.
As the April 15 tax deadline approaches, two freshmen House members are offering a new version of a hardy tax code perennial: a six-month “holiday” from payroll taxes that they say would benefit both small businesses and the working poor.
We have a new president, with a restless and far-reaching agenda — but how will the nation pay for that agenda?
So far, so good, union leaders say in assessing President Barack Obama’s performance in his first two months in office.
More than a decade ago, long before President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus package into law, taxpayer money began flowing to another stimulus program in Groton, Conn.
President Barack Obama and Congress are facing several years of painful trade-offs on national defense — a debate that in many cases will boil down to manpower vs. weapons.
As envisioned by , the federal government will soon begin tapping into a huge new source of revenue by requiring companies to pay for the permission to emit so-called greenhouse gasses linked to global warming.
In addressing a joint session of Congress and the nation, a president can take different roles.
The first speech by a new president to a joint session of Congress is one of Washington’s magnificent ceremonial events.
Despite a dizzying decline in tax revenues, many states aren’t lopping their payrolls as fast as private sector employers. And some intend to use part of the federal stimulus windfall headed their way to keep employees on their payrolls — at least for now.
Given the inherent conflicts between wealthier and poorer states, it's not surprising that two parts of the stimulus spending bill hammered out by key members of Congress favor some states at the expense of others.
The commitments that President Barack Obama did not make during last year’s campaign could end up being as significant over the next four years as the promises that he did. Now that he is president, those unmade commitments give him room to maneuver.
RENTON, Wash. - The gathering Friday night in Daryl Berry’s house in this suburban city 20 miles south of Seattle was both a dozen people sitting around talking in a den and a history-making political event.
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