The Bradford Era

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan promises a big, bold agenda and says lawmakers won’t shy from difficult choices. But several recent votes de...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress’ midsummer to-do list may take until Christmas to clear. At the top are maintaining the flow of highway funding, easing aut...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House predicted on Tuesday that this year’s budget deficit will register at $455 billion, less than forecast in February a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will ask Congress for a hefty, almost 8 percent boost for the Pentagon, including $5.3 billion to equip and t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Republican chairman of the Senate Budget Committee said Thursday that he’ll try to pass a fiscal blueprint this spring that ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House is moving quickly to revive a lapsed government program that’s credited with restoring the market fo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Michigan boot-maker, potato farmers and more than 1,200 contractors that supply parts for a next-generation fighter plane are amon...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Like a student who waited until the night before a deadline, lawmakers resuming work Monday will try to cram two years of leftover b...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two presidents have acted unilaterally on immigration — and both were Republican. Ronald Reagan and his successor George H.W. Bush e...