Congress

1.3 million people take an immediate hit, but that number would go up throughout the year.

This story about 55 tax breaks about to expire starts in an unlikely place: Barn 63 at the Belmont Race Track in Belmont, N.Y., at the stall of a pretty brown horse with a white star on her forehead.

Steel industry is picking up post-government shutdown.

Think of the U.S. Congress as a procrastinating undergrad, prone to sleeping in. Lawmakers don’t hesitate to hit the “snooze button.”

A virtual currency like Bitcoin has benefits to its users, including secrecy. Congress wants to understand its advantages and its security concerns.

John Carney and Nela Richardson join the show to wrap up a tumultuous week in Washington.

More than 20 Senators and seven Representatives have begun work on a compromise budget that liberals and conservatives can live with, before new sequester cuts hit in January. A supercommittee was what created the sequester impasse in the first place, what will be different this time around?

Whether or not Congress raises the debt ceiling in time, we may be headed for another economic slowdown.

The clock is ticking, but Congressional leaders have yet to reach an agreement.

Lawmakers in Washington have until Thursday to raise the debt ceiling.