The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff.
SENATE Majority Leader Harry Reid is touting the Senate's latest health-care bill as costing $849 billion over 10 years. But this uses the same accounting trick as past versions: 99 percent of the costs don't kick in until the fifth year of that "10-year" period.
Senate Democrats' health care bill would create a new marriage penalty by imposing a tax on individuals who make $200,000 annually but hitting married couples making just $50,000 more.
Chances of business supporting the Obama administration's health overhaul are fading fast, after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's bill took a liberal turn.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M.
F or late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
If you haven't flown in a while and plan to take to the skies this holiday season, brace yourself. You'll find fewer flights, more crowded planes and enough fees – for everything from blankets to bags – to give you sticker shock.
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.
When a team of senior U.S.
It's one of hundreds of mistakes on the site, meant to stand as a symbol of transparency about where the government money is going.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid presented an $848 billion health-care overhaul package on Wednesday that would extend coverage to 31 million Americans and reform insurance practices while adding an array of tax increases, including a rise in payroll taxes for high earners.
The Senate bill pushes back implementation of major parts of the reform to 2014 -- a change from 2013 under the Finance Committee bill.
A government panel's decision to toss out long-time guidelines for breast cancer screening is causing an uproar, and well it should.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tried to dispel concerns Wednesday that new guidelines on breast-cancer screening threaten insurance coverage for the procedure amid a growing debate about the guidelines among patients, medical professionals and legislators.
One year ago, President Barack Obama's election win transformed political campaigns by showing the power of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and text messages.
California created the nation's first energy-efficiency standard for television sets, arguing that it needed to act because federal energy officials have been slow to confront the issue.
In the new, greener economy, some old jobs have simply been rebranded. A home builder who installs solar panels is suddenly green. So is the engineer who worked for the phone company and now installs parts of a smart grid.
Listening to President Obama and his Chinese counterpart this week, it was hard to tell who was Hu.
Showing impatience with Iranian foot-dragging, President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and its allies are discussing possible new penalties to bring fresh pressure on Iran for defying international attempts to halt its contested nuclear program.
President Obama was supposed the first post-partisan president who would usher in a new era of openness and transparency in government. But the Democrats that are charged with sheparding his policies through Congress are rapidly making him the most-partisan President.
Mounting evidence that independent voters have soured on the Democrats is prompting a debate among party officials about what rhetorical and substantive changes are needed to halt the damage.
ABC News' Rick Klein reports: The chairman of the Obama administration's Recovery Board is telling lawmakers that he can't certify jobs data posted at the Recovery.gov Web site -- and doesn't have access to a "master list" of stimulus recipients that have neglected to …
House Democratic leaders signaled Tuesday that they are moving full steam ahead with a stimulus bill in the coming weeks, a plan that is already dividing fiscally conservative Democrats unsure of whether they can swallow another multibillion-dollar spending package.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that she hopes to move on a jobs bill next month but cautioned against rushing in before Democrats have found the "right initiative" to deal with what's proved to be a very stubborn, deep recession for workers.
More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year.