Congress’s latest effort at fiscal restraint — the Budget Control Act of 2011 — targeted the one-third of federal spending that goes for discretionary programs. This act has helped to shrink ...

Voyageurs National Park will face cuts ranging from 2 to 9 percent unless Congress acts and the president signs a budget deal before Jan. 2. The Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012 will go ...

as required by the Budget Control Act of 2011, has triggered The Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012. The automatic across-the-board budget cuts, known as sequestration, set to take effect Jan ...

I kept looking for the splashy headlines: “White House misses deadlines of Budget Control Act …Administration downplays violation of law.” Well, maybe next time. One might expect Congress ...