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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp tells CNBC ahead of his panel's IRS scandal hearing that he wants to know who "hatched" the plan to target conservative groups.
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The SEC is being pressed to require public corporations to disclose political donations, a move that could transform the growing world of secret campaign spending. The NYT reports.
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Max Baucus, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, will not seek re-election to a seventh term next year, according to a Democratic aide.
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Sen. Max Baucus, (D-MT) has announced he will not run for re-election in 2014, reports CNBC's Eamon Javers.
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Authorities declined to comment on a suspect or any other aspect of the investigation, but a senator says the person under suspicion writes a lot of letters to Senate members.
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Americans' opinion of the federal government has fallen to a record low, according to Pew Research Center survey released on Monday.
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Economic pressures rather than moral values are thought to be the principal US problem, a new NBC/WSJ poll finds.
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President Obama sent Congress a $3.8 trillion spending blueprint on Wednesday that strives to achieve a "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits, raising taxes on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit programs.
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CNBC's John Harwood breaks down the details in the president's 2014 budget proposal.
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"Nothing shrinks deficits faster than a growing economy," said President Obama delivering remarks on the details contained in his $3.8 trillion budget proposal sent to Congress.
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Wall Street regulations crafted after the financial crisis were written quickly during turbulent times and need to be changed, the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told CNBC.
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CNBC's John Harwood provides a preview of President Obama's $3.8 trillion budget.
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Claims that reform would boost the economy are challenged by those who say costs in job losses and spending on social programs would be too high a price.
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President Barack Obama is expected to formally propose a controversial change in how the government calculates inflation for Social Security and other federal benefits.
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President Barack Obama's budget plan would change how increases in Social Security benefits are calculated. Experts say that could be devastating to recipients who need cost-of-living adjustments to survive.
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The prospects for U.S. economic growth are "still too little" and "too uncertain," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told CNBC. American can't just sit back on its laurels, he added.
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President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other benefits programs in a budget proposal next week aimed at winning over enough congressional Republicans to pass a broad deal to reduce the deficit.
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The 10 fastest growing metro areas last year were all in red states. Art Laffer, Laffer Investments; Dean Baker, Center For Economic & Policy Research; and Hadley Heath, Independent Women's Forum, discuss.
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Dr. Benjamin Carson was a political unknown just weeks ago. Now, He is in some ways a dream candidate for Republicans. The NYT reports.
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*Kansas Democrats, Republicans see a threat to jobs. WICHITA, Kansas, March 20- First came the recession, throwing thousands out of work. "I'm certainly disappointed that he would do something of this nature," said Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, a Democrat who displays Obama's portrait on his office wall. "
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Discussing ways in which the GOP can fix its brand, with Mark Stevens, MSCO CEO; Mark Hannah, Former Kerry & Obama Campaign Aide; and Chip Saltsman, Former Huckabee Campaign Manager.
