Biden made a vow never to repeat the Obama administration’s worst mistake. His resolve is now being put to a test.

The Florida representative wants to force people to work to get health care.

The discharge petition has been floated as a Hail Mary to avoid default, but the current political conditions do not augur success.

From atop the mountains of Davos, the West Virginia senator has brought down his next big idea: Bring back the supercommittee!

The Treasury Department is taking steps to make sure the U.S. doesn’t default on its debt, as House Republicans and the White House continue to face off.

The new year has brought the same old worries about breaching the debt limit. But there’s one worrying change: An unruly group of House Republicans is now in charge.

The debt ceiling is a legendarily ridiculous problem. Fortunately, there is a ridiculously legendary solution.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress that the nation will hit the debt ceiling on January 19. But Republicans have promised to hold the debt ceiling hostage until they get what they want.

The Framers would have never tolerated debt-limit brinkmanship. It’s time to put this terrible idea on trial.

They’re risking catastrophe so they can cut Medicare and Social Security.

If the Democrats don’t use the lame-duck session to take this economic doomsday device out of the incoming GOP’s hands, God help us all.

Congress has an overwhelming to-do list in the final months of the year, including the not-so-small matter of funding the government.

The congressional investigation into the Capitol Riot accomplished much, but it was never a good vehicle to deliver the midterms to the Democrats.

Republicans have been publicly proclaiming their intention to take the economy hostage for a long while. There may not be time to stop them now.

Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.

Lawmakers agreed to raise the debt limit until 2023, but the fear of a breach is only mounting.

This is how the filibuster carve-out became the hot new thing in making up the rules as you go along.

Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling on Tuesday, but the dysfunction that drives this perennial crisis remains intact.

This is a lesson that Democratic lawmakers learned the hard way during the Obama era, only to forget it.

The perennial fight to raise the debt limit and avoid an economic calamity is once again on lawmakers’ docket, and this time things could get messy.