Edited by Jenny Jiang Transcript of remarks by Gene Sperling, Director of the White House National Economic Council, on President Barack Obama’s FY2014 budget. The press briefing was…
Excerpts from press briefing remarks by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on the FY2014 budget proposed by President Barack Obama on…
Excerpts of Q&A responses by Linda J. Blimes, Harvard Kennedy School Professor and co-author of The Trillion Dollar War, on the cost of the Iraq War at the…
Transcript of remarks by Linda J. Blimes, Harvard Kennedy School Professor and co-author of The Trillion Dollar War, on the cost of the Iraq War at the Carnegie…
Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wy.) and former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles are pressing Congress and the Obama administration to reduce the deficit by another…
The federal government will have to slash $85 billion between now and the end of September after Congress and the White House failed to reach an agreement to…
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood warned Congress that sequestration would force the Federal Aviation Administration to furlough air traffic controllers and safety technicians, resulting in fewer flights and…
Transcript of excerpts from the Politico Playbook Breakfast with Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, on sequestration and deficit…