U.S. House Committee on Appropriations

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan House is about to finish work on legislation that would require school employees to pay significantly more toward their pensions but not force new teachers into a 401(k)-style system. The House Appropriations...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. In case you missed it yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee got the next set of budget dominoes in line as it voted, along party lines, to send the $27.65 billion budget plan approved by the......

The House Appropriations Committee Has Just Voted ... ... along party lines to send the $27.65 billion budget approved by the Senate two weeks ago to the House floor for a vote sometime during the week of June 4. The......

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — New teachers in Michigan would continue to get hybrid pensions and the state would use more money from the school aid fund to pay down future school employee retirement costs under changes made Monday to a school employee...

Healthier-than-expected tax collections in April are providing plenty of fodder for the final leg of debate over the 2012-13 state budget, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle eyeing restorations to some of the cuts proposed by Gov. Tom......

There's a tendency among some to shorthand the ongoing federal budget debate as between Republicans who want to reduce government spending and Democrats who don't. This isn't really the case, as recent actions in the House have demonstrated. On...

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Thorough and efficient. Those three words can be found in Section 14 of the Pennsylvania Constitution: "The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s missions to Mars have gotten a boost from congressional leaders, who this week found up to $100 million more for NASA’s planetary science program. The White House’s initial proposal for the 2013 NASA budget...

Revised NASA budget proposals making their way through Congress would restore a portion of the $300 million in cuts for Mars exploration that would hit Jet Propulsion Laboratory next year. The White House’s initial proposal for the 2013 NASA budget...

Forget the heat and the hoopla surrounding the race for the White House this spring. Pennsylvania voters in a half-dozen special elections Tuesday could provide inklings into their intentions this fall. This year the special state House races will be........

The Kansas Supreme Court today postponed two of the remaining four days scheduled for furloughs of court employees and the closing of Kansas courts. The statewide closing of all district and appellate courts set for Friday, April 27, is postponed until...

Even though he admits he has very little prospect of winning the Republican nomination, Newt Gingrich is costing the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars a day with his Secret Service detail on the campaign trail. Gingrich requested Secret Service...