"Everyone from the traveling public to freight haulers will benefit from improved reliability and systems," said House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole, R-Okla. With the GOP's budget ...

After its Christmas break concludes, Congress is set to return in January with a host of unfinished business that could shape ...

We need fundamental budget reform in this country. A two-year budget cycle with automatic funding when legislators fail to act would be a good start.

My latest monthly piece for the Washington Examiner magazine looks at the recent rescission law. In short, it’s disruptive to enact partisan trims to the current year’s spending while the two parties ...

(The Center Square) – With U.S. House members out for their August recess, senators are scrambling to advance at least some of the 12 annual appropriations bills to fund federal agencies in fiscal ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s budget chief suggested Thursday that he doesn’t need Congress or the Constitution to force through massive cuts to federal spending, hinting that more such cuts ...

This article was first published in the On the Hill newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox on Friday mornings here. It’s that time of year again. Lawmakers are back at the Capitol ...

David was a Senior Policy Analyst in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. Despite the considerable amount of energy and political capital expended on fiscal ...

(WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Wednesday took a step toward approving its first appropriation bill, agreeing to advance military construction and Veterans Affairs spending in a 90-8 vote. But lawmakers ...

Both the House and the Senate appropriations committees are off to strong starts in the appropriations process for fiscal 2013. Will both chambers pass all 12 major bills before the end of the current ...