- Lori Montgomery
- Reporter
Lori Montgomery covers U.S. economic policy and the federal budget, focusing on efforts to tame the national debt. She has written extensively about every major piece of legislation to pass Congress since 2008, including the TARP bank bailout, the Obama stimulus package and the Democratic overhaul of the health care system. A former foreign correspondent who covered the emerging economies of Central Europe and the war over Kosovo in the late 1990s, Montgomery joined the Post in 2000 to report on local government and politics. A native of Western Pennsylvania, she has also worked for newspapers in Michigan, Texas and Idaho.
Senators unveil job creation plan
Warner, Coons, Rubio and Moran offer a bill, dubbed START-UP 2.0, to encourage entrepreneurs and promote job creation.
CBO report: Taxmageddon would throw U.S. back into recession
If the nation goes over the fiscal cliff in January, the Congressional Budget Office predicts, there will be another recession.
House GOP urges tax overhaul in 2013
House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) calls for “fast-track procedures” to force lawmakers to complete a long-discussed overhaul of the tax code next year.
Boehner threatens another debt-ceiling fight
House Speaker John A. Boehner is again threatening to block an increase in the federal debt ceiling without significant new cuts in spending.
- Boehner sees battle over debt limit as ‘action-forcing event’
- Taxmageddon sparks rising anxiety
- Lawmakers consider changing tax breaks on retirement savings
- Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds
- Tax breaks would be tough to cut, congressional research says
- Ryan introduces GOP budget plan, slashing social programs and tax rates
- GOP budget plan cuts deeply into domestic programs, reshapes Medicare, Medicaid
- Obama’s evolution: Behind the failed ‘grand bargain’ on the debt
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