6 degrees of sequestration

Give us your suggestions for a better word for "sequester."

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) explains why across-the-board cuts on defense spending and elsewhere is bad business.

D.C. denizens turn to happy hours, cigarettes to cope with looming budget cuts.

Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, with their second plan for cutting the deficit, get attention because their proposals fall in the middle between political extremes.

Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles -- the bipartisan pair that brought us a multi-trillion-dollar deficit reduction plan that was never enacted -- are out today with a new plan.

Biomedical engineer worries about the future of her research amid the sequester threat.