"Dynamic scoring" of bills sounds boring, but it’s actually a big deal.

A discussion of highlights from the week's news.

On the spending bill chopping block: A section of the Dodd-Frank Regulatory Reform bill. So what does it do exactly?

Lame-duck sessions of Congress are shouldering more of the workload.

Money, and an inability to compromise.

Hybrid word combines “omnibus” spending bill and a continuing resolution, or “CR” – two funding stopgaps.

The Senate grills the president of the New York Fed about perceived coziness with the banks and people it oversees.

More on the two major trade deals being negotiated by the Obama Administration.

The government must pass a spending bill by mid-December.