Tuesday is tax day, and the only thing more frustrating than paying taxes is Washington's refusal to fix the tax code.
Senate Democrats this week will propose extending the payroll tax cut and imposing a surtax on people earning more than $1 million to pay for it, Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said Sunday.
The 12 members of Congress on the deficit reduction committee have my deepest admiration and respect. They face probably the greatest challenge they've ever faced or ever will, at least in political life!
John King, Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Rep. Heath Shuler discuss the super committee's looming deadline.
Republicans on Capitol Hill gave conflicting messages to the debt committee this week.
Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan is gaining traction, but not in every quarter.
With the clock ticking down until the U.S. hits its debt ceiling, conservative and progressive third-party interest groups whose pledges lawmakers have signed their names to are ratcheting up the pressure to keep them in line.
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist calls for less rhetoric and more written proposals from Obama.
A leading anti-tax-increase crusader says he doesn't think that letting Bush-era tax breaks expire is violation of a no-tax-increase pledge. So do Republicans now have a way out of the debt ceiling deadlock?
Majority Leader John Behner says it's time for the president to move to keep the nation's credit rating from falling.
The head of a conservative group that has backed a high-profile pledge to oppose any tax increase told CNN on Friday that he would support effectively lifting the debt ceiling through the 2012 presidential election.
The Cut, Cap and Balance Act that the House Republicans passed is just that -- an "act" at a time when legislators need to stop acting and start helping this country get back on track.
Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reforms, sits down with Wolf Blitzer to say what he wants in tax reform.
Some political analysts watching the debt ceiling talks in Washington lament that the no-tax-hike pledge signed by most congressional Republicans may prevent a grand compromise in which tax increases accompany spending cuts.
Norquist is a strong supporter of tax reform and he wants to make sure the GOP keeps tax increases out of any debt deal.
At the heart of the contentious talks between the White House and congressional Republicans on whether to raise the debt ceiling is a simple, one-sentence document many conservative lawmakers have signed, pledging not to increase taxes.
Sen. Dan Coats says Republicans are committed to bringing a balanced budget amendment to a vote.
Senators and representatives crammed in their July 4 parades and other festivities Monday as Congress prepared to cut short its Independence Day break and resume talks over the need to raise the federal government's debt ceiling.
CNN's Kate Bolduan reports on partisan sniping on the Hill, as members cancel a recess to focus on debt talks.
The American people do not want Republicans to compromise on their opposition to any form of tax increase as part of a deficit reduction deal being negotiated with Democrats, veteran Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said Sunday.
Another influential Republican senator on Sunday backed increasing tax revenue as part of a deficit reduction deal, going against a fundamental stance of fiscal conservatives.
Rep. Paul Ryan calls the nation's debt problem a "moral crisis" and urges Americans to vote Republican in 2012.
So Republicans are now in charge in the House, and they're having some growing pains. It seems that their new flock is filled with independent sorts who may listen to their leaders, but still go their own way.
A conservative leader Friday laid the Republican Party's poor showing at the polls at the feet of moderates who, he argues, led the party away from its core principles.
CNN's Dana Bash reports on what went wrong with John McCain's campaign for president and what's next.
Both candidates, at least for now, seem to be moving closer together on Iraq. Which one will benefit?
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dismissed rumors Tuesday that she is angling to be Sen. John McCain's running mate, instead telling reporters she plans to head back to Stanford University.
Jack Cafferty asks: Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain if Condoleezza Rice is his running mate?
Sen. John McCain and the conservatives -- it's been an on-again, off-again affair.
THIS SPRING in Washington, D.C., many lobbying shops are contemplating doing something they haven't done in years: hiring Democrats. That, in turn, may spell the beginning of the end of the decade-...
Abramoff tended to pick clients far removed from the Beltway who were sometimes either too desperate or too unfamiliar with the lobbying trade to question his unorthodox tactics and exorbitant fees
At this stage, it's not easy to make Jack Abramoff's reputation worse. The Washington superlobbyist has been caught, in his e-mails, calling his Indian tribal clients "monkeys" and "morons."
Conservative and liberal groups normally at each other's throats over the direction of government are finding common cause in wanting to gut major provisions of the government's premier anti-terrorism law.
"The only Grover they know in Indiana is the fuzzy creature on Sesame Street," cracked Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels after anti-tax activist Grover Norquist attacked his proposed tax increase.
WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH TALKED ABOUT tax reform last year, many Americans were hoping he'd tackle the new scourge of the middle class: the alternative minimum tax (AMT). The tax, whose origins date to ...
Of all the ways being considered to honor Ronald Reagan, the push to put his face on the dime -- replacing that of Franklin Roosevelt -- is unlikely to happen.
Ronald Reagan's face could one day adorn the $10 bill or half the dimes minted in the country, if fans of the late president get their way.
As you read this, 2003 is coming to a grand conclusion. After the bruising downturn, the economy appears to have shifted from a whimper to a roar. The bear market finally seems to have found the do...
Grover Norquist, a longtime adviser to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, thinks he's figured out a way to populate the country with a whole new subspecies of Right-thinking Republicans: Push legi...
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