The Congressional Budget Office has just issued a report on the minimum wage that is a real head-scratcher. Analyzing proposals to raise the minimum wage to $9.00 or $10.10 per…

…1, she contacted her congressional Representative asking for assistance in learning of them. He told her instead that she could be his guest at the State of the Union address….

…healthcare.com throughout the last three months of the year, and also accurate information and assistance from her congressional representative, Republican Tim Walberg, and apparently from Blue Care, the company from…

…of campaign retribution had generated widespread opposition in congressional ranks, leading a despairing Camp to announce that, despite his powerful position, he would not seek another term in office. This…

…rather than Obama and the congressional Democrats who tried to restore to Clinton-era levels the Bush-era tax cuts for people in the $250,000-$500,000 range, and estate taxes, and that Obama…

…dictate Cantor’s policy positions and write legislation he proposes–couldn’t vote in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District last week. The district is too far away for them to commute to Wall Street,…

…and universal access to health care. By contrast, in the 1990s, Congressional Democrats were “lukewarm” on health care reform. As Paul Starr reports in his newest book, Remedy and Reaction,…

…they have their primary (for most people, their only) residence, but the Koch brothers are the constituents not just of Kansas’s senators and Wichita’s congressional representative but also of any…

Via CBS news Mark Thoma addresses some coming issues in Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Tax Committee in Do tax cuts pay for themselves? Now that Republicans have taken…

…of the script. First, there were reports that healthcare insurers and hospital chains were beginning to panic, and began making their concerns known to Republican congressional members. Then, as the…