Senate Democrats want another vote this week on extending a payroll tax cut for workers. But Republicans say they can't support the Democratic proposal.

Congressional leaders had been counting on the super committee to deal with a lot of spending and tax issues in the short-term.

At the crossroads of our national debate about jobs and our national debate about health care debt… Is the (fictional) city of Hobbs. Its …

President Obama has released his budget proposal for the 2012 federal spending plan. A growing national deficit has prompted the White House to…

This final note today about the deficit. The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform made some news this afternoon. That's the…