Fiscal Cliff
With time running out for Washington to act before the deadline on the Fiscal Cliff, President Barack Obama is taking his message for Congressional Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone but the rich to American public.
Most Americans favor President Obama’s plan to raise taxes on incomes over $250,000 a year, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll.
President Obama is beginning a push to sway the public over the impending fiscal cliff.
In the face of the fiscal cliff, which looms only a month away, some in the Republican leadership are finally bucking Norquist’s hold, and vowing to break the pledge.
A new report by President Obama's Council of Economic Advisors warns that Congress should act soon on middle-class tax breaks.
U.S. lawmakers have made little progress in the past 10 days toward a compromise to avoid the harsh tax increases and government spending cuts scheduled for January 1, a senior Democratic senator said on Sunday.
President Obama met with members of Congress from both parties to begin preliminary negotiations on economic policy to avoid the fiscal cliff.
As President Barack Obama and congressional leaders prepared for budget and tax talks on Friday aimed at preventing the economyfrom falling back into recession next year, Democrats and Republicans dug in on their long-held opposing positions.
President Obama will meet with lawmakers on Friday to begin preliminary discussions on a way to avoid the fiscal cliff, which looms only six weeks away.
Ron Paul, the bombastic Republican congressman from Texas, gave his farewell address to Congress on Wednesday.
In his opening salvo in negotiations over the fiscal cliff, President Obama is asking Republicans to pass a $1.6 trillion in tax increase on Americans making over $250,000 a year.
A new report by Gallup shows that economic confidence among Americans in the second week of November.
As his second week after reelection approaches, President Obama is preparing for a showdown with Republicans over the fiscal cliff.
After a big loss, the Republican party is divided over its future and its direction.
