He referred specifically to the balanced budget agreement, which Gingrich has indicated was his doing. Lott said it was more the result of work by Republicans Rep. John Kasich, of Ohio, and Sen. Pete Domenici, of New Mexico. "I think maybe his...

“If you really look at the issue of fiscal restraint and deficit reduction, the president has been much more in the center,” said Steve Bell, a longtime budget adviser to leading Republicans including Pete Domenici, a former senator from New Mexico who...

At the age of 80, Rivlin looks sharp, thinks sharp and has some sharp words about the failure of the congressional “supercommittee” to reach an agreement on reducing the country’s ballooning debt. Rivlin shared her thoughts with Kiplinger’s editors. ...

She also co-chaired, with former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, the Debt Reduction Task Force of the Bipartisan Policy Center. Kiplinger's: What do individuals do in the midst of an uncertain economy to provide for their own retirement security?

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(Des Moines) -- It's a measure of the frustration with Washington's ongoing partisan stalemate that even in a GOP presidential race, participants in the Iowa caucuses -- ostensibly a supremely partisan exercise -- routinely asked Republican candidates ho