Blog - /blog/2013/03/25/march-madness-tale-two-budgets/
March 25, 2013 - After months of inaction on the federal budget, Congress is now wrapping up work on two – the budget for fiscal year 2013, which began back on Oct. 1, 2012, and the first steps in a budget for f...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/03/22/a-post-iraq-security-consensus/
March 22, 2013 - ...ush's invasion of Iraq, we may be witnessing a seismic shift in America's politics of national security. After decades of using hawkish positions for partisan advantage, the Republican Party is facing...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/20/there-federal-budget-2013-detailed-updates/
March 20, 2013 - ...spending bill called a continuing resolution instead of a real budget for fiscal 2013. That continuing resolution expires on March 27. If lawmakers don't pass new legislation the federal gov...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/budget-proposals-2014/
March 14, 2013 - National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up against what Americans want.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/03/06/too-much-money-too-few-results/
March 6, 2013 - WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nat...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/04/house-bill-funds-government-remainder-year/
March 5, 2013 - ...ust two areas of government – Defense and Military Construction-Veterans Affair.
Blog - /blog/2013/03/01/sequestration-and-so-it-begins/
March 4, 2013 - ...spending cuts known as sequestration.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/homeland-security-second-defense-department/
Feb. 28, 2013 - In an opinion piece for TomDispatch, Mattea Kramer and Chris Hellman describe their findings after exploring federal funding for homeland security.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/homeland-security-spending-since-911/
Feb. 28, 2013 - NPP calculates how much the federal government has spent on homeland security since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/02/26/bipartisan-coalition-calls-for-reforming-sequester/
Feb. 26, 2013 - ...Defense Department on the scale of the sequester but to shift the cuts to different areas of the defense budget. “We and other military experts believe we can realize savings of at least $...
Blog - /blog/2013/02/24/sequestrations-havoc/
Feb. 25, 2013 - ...ust days away, sequestration is on course to fail us all – especially the most vulnerable and marginalized Americans.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/02/20/how-will-sequester-affect-you/
Feb. 20, 2013 - Another manufactured budget crisis is facing Washington, but this time around it looks as if there will be no last-minute showdown.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/02/12/pentagon-urges-delay-in-devastating-budget-cuts/
Feb. 12, 2013 - The Pentagon's civilian and military leaders warned in dire terms on Tuesday that $46 billion in budget cuts due to go into effect in two weeks would erode the nation's ability to go to war and appeal...
Blog - /blog/2012/12/07/lack-leadership-senate/
Dec. 10, 2012 - I recently read an article that compared the gridlock in Washington, D.C. to living next to a railroad track with trains constantly going by – eventually you don’t even notice it. But with...
Blog - /blog/2012/11/27/whats-stake-your-state/
Nov. 27, 2012 - ...ust a couple ways that federal money flows into your state.
Analysis - /analysis/2012/education-job-training-and-fiscal-showdown/
Nov. 15, 2012 - ...defense spending and tax cuts.
Blog - /blog/2012/10/30/voter-guide-2012-obama-and-romney-issues/
Oct. 30, 2012 - The two presidential candidates have put forth very different proposals on nearly every issue, and now it's up to voters to choose the path our country will take for years to come. From Medicare to ed...
Blog - /blog/2012/10/24/pentagon-spending-obama-vs-romney/
Oct. 24, 2012 - ...ussed their plans for future Pentagon spending. Gov. Romney claimed that President Obama would cut $1 trillion from the Pentagon’s budget, while President Obama questioned how Gov. Romney would ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/10/17/big-sticks-cost-money/
Oct. 17, 2012 - ...ush-like interventionist streak, another step away from the party’s pre-World War Two isolationism. That could lead to more Middle East conflict and defense spending. It’s also just as ris...
Blog - /blog/2012/10/10/where-are-we-now-congress-elections-and-lame-duck/
Oct. 10, 2012 - ...use and Senate members could return to their districts to campaign before the critical November elections. Members plan to return to Washington in mid-November for a “lame duck” session of...
