Budget Control Act of 2011

Raydon Corp., a Volusia County-based military-training company, has emerged from a scrum of rivals with a contract potentially worth $44 million to produce armored-vehicle driver-training simulators, the Army said Monday. The Port Orange company...

Many Republicans, and Democrats, never thought the automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration would take effect. After all, they might produce dangerous, if unintended, consequences such as potentially bankrupting the U.S. health care...

At this stage in the U.S. recovery, there isn't much that fiscal policy can do to accelerate growth. Some argue that we need another tax cut, while others would prefer increased spending. Neither is going to happen on a significant scale. Radical...

* Spending bills seen stalling without bigger US budget deal * Little incentive for compromise as fiscal deadlines fade * Stop-gap funding to avert government shutdown looking inevitable By David Lawder WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - The annual...

TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott took a shot at President Obama yesterday about the federal sequestration forcing some furloughs of National Guardsmen as the hurricane season ramps up. Today, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is shooting back with a letter...

(Corrects cost of program to $52 billion from $5.2 billion and clarifies second paragraph) * Fixed-price contract, close oversight have helped * 50-year-old planes could start being replaced by 2017 By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters)...

Every day, health professionals and scientists working in universities and hospitals across the country see the hope that medical research brings to patients treated at their institutions. However, the Appropriations Committee in the House of...

* Fixed-price contract, close oversight have helped * 50-year-old planes could start being replaced by 2017 By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - A Boeing program for a aerial tanker that will refuel other warplanes mid-flight is nearly...

More than a thousand South Florida seniors are waiting for in-home services, like home-delivered meals and personal care aides, that are financed through the federal Older Americans Act. But Holocaust survivors could get priority when slots become open in...

The latest indicator that the U.S. economy is on the upswing can probably be found on the street where you live: It's the "sold" sign planted in the neighbor's yard. Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but the real estate industry is not the moribund mess you...

Andrea is coming. Then Barry, Chantal and Dorian. If national weather forecasters are right, 13 to 20 named tropical storms will brew up over the warm Atlantic this year in what's expected to be an "active or extremely active" season. Of those, seven to...