A bipartisan commitment to responsible budgeting was once a fundamental part of American governance. Congress borrowed for exceptional situations and reduced the debt burden otherwise. Since the Great ...

A bipartisan commitment to responsible budgeting was once a fundamental part of American governance. Congress borrowed for exceptional situations and reduced the debt burden otherwise. Since the Great ...

Some lawmakers want to adopt a new amendment to force Congress to come up with balanced budgets to keep the country’s ballooning deficit from continuing to spiral out of control and risk a debt crisis ...

Cynical Balanced Budget Amendment Defeated, Just As GOP PlannedAfter slashing revenues with a tax cut bill, and then increasing spending through an omnibus bill, Republicans claim to favor a balanced ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sens. Jon Husted of Ohio and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming introduced the Principles-Based Balanced Budget Amendment (PBBA), a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget.

(The Center Square) – In light of the nation’s $38 trillion national debt, U.S. House lawmakers met Wednesday to discuss ways to structure a constitutional amendment mandating that Congress pass ...

WASHINGTON • House Republicans, feeling they have scored significant fiscal victories, are moving on to an even bigger challenge: persuading voters, state legislatures and Democrats to alter the ...

WASHINGTON — The House failed to pass a Constitutional balanced budget amendment on Friday. Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition of Democrats, ...

The United States needs a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget on the federal level, except in times of war or national emergencies, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman said Monday.

Some things never change: despite radical growth in technologically driven material abundance, humans today fundamentally exhibit the same characteristics of those living at the time of Aristotle, ...