CRFB Projects:

U.S. Budget Watch follows the actions by the White House and Congress that have significant fiscal effects. http://www.usbudgetwatch.org/

The Fiscal Roadmap Project makes recommendations on how to navigate the fiscal and econoimic challenges currently facing the country. Good Deficit/Bad Deficit or The Extraordinary Actions taken by the Federal Reserve

Stimulus Watch is an interactive table that provides detailed descriptions of all government actions taken to deal with the recent financial and economic turmoil. http://www.usbudgetwatch.org/stimulus

Visit CRFB's Budget Blog

Recent Publications & Releases:

Health Care Reform Series - Principle #3: Making Medicare and Medicaid Sustainable

July 1, 2009

Budget Update on CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook

June 29, 2009

CRFB Reacts to CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook

June 25, 2009

The Extraordinary Actions taken by the Federal Reserve

June 23, 2009

Health Care Reform Series - Principle #2: Paying for Health Care Reform

June 18, 2009

Budget Update - Reviewing the House Appropriations Allocations

June 16, 2009

Release - Paying for Health Care

June 15, 2009

Health Care Reform Series - Principle #1: Slowing Health Care Cost Growth

June 10, 2009

Press Release - Paygo Proposal

June 9, 2009

Press Release - CRFB Announces new Co-Chairs Penny and Stenholm

June 5, 2009

Health Care Reform Series - Five Principles for Responsible Health Care Reform

June 2, 2009

Oped - Health Reform's Savings Myth by Maya MacGuineas

May 31, 2009

Oped - $4 Trillion in Exaggerated Savings by Maya MacGuineas

May 21, 2009

Policy Paper - Analysis of the President's FY2010 Budget

May 19, 2009

Analysis of Social Security Trustees Report

May 14, 2009

CRFB Reacts to Trustees Reports

May 12, 2009

CRFB Reacts to President's FY2010 Budget

May 11, 2009

The President's Budget Cuts

May 7, 2009

The Concurrent Budget Resolution

April 29, 2009

Presidential Call for Fiscal Responsibility

April 27, 2009

CRFB Members Named to CBO Advisory Panels

April 24, 2009

Article - Fiscal Disorder: The Broken Budget Process and the Dire Need for Reform by Jim Bates

April 21, 2009

FRP Paper - Good Deficit / Bad Deficit

April 16, 2009

Release - President's Call for Entitlement Reform

April 14, 2009

CRFB Urges Tax Reform on Tax Day

April 13, 2009

Comparing the FY2010 Budget Resolutions

March 31, 2009

Release - Tax Reform Task Force

March 27, 2009

CBO's Analysis of Obama's FY2010 Budget

March 26, 2009

Mandatory Spending in the Budget

March 20, 2009

Release - Pay for Health Reform

March 10, 2009

More President Obama's FY2010 Budget

March 9, 2009

President Obama's FY2010 Budget

February 26, 2009

FY 2009 Appropriations

February 25, 2009

Recommendations for Budget

February 24, 2009

MacGuineas on the News Hour

February 23, 2009

Details of Stimulus Bill

February 17, 2009

Stimulus Bill

February 14, 2009

Nussle Joins CRFB Board

February 13, 2009

Stimulus Comparisons

February 11, 2009

Release - Don't Put Permanent Measures in Stimulus

January 28, 2009

Federal Debt and Interest Costs

January 28, 2009

Open Letter to President Obama

January 27, 2009

Release - Stimulus Spendout

January 22, 2009

Release - Inauguration Speech

January 20, 2009

Release - CRFB Applauds Fiscal Summit Idea

January 16, 2009

Release - Stimulus Plan

January 8, 2009

Release - CBO Baseline

January 7, 2009

Release - PAYGO Rule

January 6, 2009

Release - CBO Health Report

December 18, 2008

Release - Financial Report

December 16, 2008

Release - Auto Bailout

December 11, 2008

Release - CBO Monthly Statement

December 10, 2008

Release - Obama's Economic Team

November 26, 2008

Release - Stimulus Must Be Offset

November 25, 2008

Fiscally Responsible Stimulus

November 10, 2008

Release - One Trillion Dollar Deficit

November 10, 2008

Oped - Who Bails out the US Government? by Leon Panetta and Bill Frenzel

November 5, 2008

Health Care Voter Guide

Tax Policy Voter Guide

Social Security Voter Guide

Stimulus Voter Guide

Oped - Fiscal Crisis Will Greet New President by Charlie Stenholm

October 31, 2008

Oped - Finding (Fiscally Responsible) Common Ground Between McCain and Obama

October 31, 2008

Oped - Federal Deficit Hole by Tim Penny

October 27, 2008

NYT Open Letter

October 14, 2008

Oped - Who Will Pay for this Mess?

October 14, 2008

Release - Don't Lard Up Bailout

October 2, 2008

Testimony of Maya MacGuineas for the House Budget Committee on Budget Process

September 25, 2008

Release - Stick to PAYGO

September 25, 2008

Promises Promises: A Fiscal Voter Guide to the 2008 Election - Update

September 2008

CBO Baseline

September 10, 2008

Twelve Principles for Fiscal Responsibility

May 2008

Budget Resolution Conference Agreement

May 22, 2008

Paul Ryan's Plan

May 22, 2008

US Budget Watch Project (Release)

May 19, 2008

House and Senate Budgets

April 8, 2008

Letter on the Budget and Taxes

March 19, 2008

Deficit Bubble by Bill Frenzel and Leon Panetta

February 28, 2008

More on the President's FY 2009 Budget

February 21, 2008

The Medicare Trigger

February 21, 2008

The President's FY 2009 Budget

February 4, 2008

An Alternate Baseline

February 4, 2008

More on Stimulus

February 4, 2008

CBO Baseline

January 23, 2008

Fiscal Stimulus

January 22, 2008

Article on Economic Diversification

December 2007

Release - PAYGO and AMT

December 7, 2007

Release - Panetta on Task Force

October 31, 2007

Testimony of Leon Panetta on Fiscal Task Force

October 31, 2007

Release - Coalition for PAYGO

October 30, 2007

Budget Update - End of Fiscal Year

October 18, 2007

Release - Commenting on FY 2007 Deficit

October 12, 2007

Release - Praising the SAFE Commission

September 26, 2007

Release - Praising the Bipartisan Task Force on Responsible Fiscal Action

September 18, 2007

Testimony of Barry Anderson on Performance Budgeting

September 18, 2007

Release - Urging Congress to Keep the Medicare Trigger

September 4, 2007

Release - Warning Against Gaming PAYGO

July 30, 2007

Testimony of Maya MacGuineas for the House Budget Committee on Statutory PAYGO

July 25, 2007

Budget Update - The House and Senate's Budgets

April 6, 2007

Release - Encouraging Congress to Stick to PAYGO

March 21, 2007

Richard Darman on the 1990 Budget Summit

March 13, 2007

Budget Update - Analysis of the President's FY 2008 Budget

February 6, 2007

Release - Support for PAYGO

January 5, 2007

Oped - Frenzel and Panetta Call for Budget Summit

November 6, 2006

 

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Recent Events:

Towards Bipartisan Tax Policy

Video/Paper February 12, 2009

Budget Process Changes Needed

January 22, 2009

Recipes for Recovery

November 10, 2008

What Comes Next? The Economic and Budgetary Consequences of the Bailout

with Leon Panetta, Bill Frenzel, Alice Rivlin, Rudy Penner, Marc Zandi, Martin Baily, Rob Dugger, Tim Adams, Dean Baker, Maya MacGuineas October 8, 2008

Busting the Budget: Healthcare Costs or Entitlement Programs?

September 15, 2008

Scripting America's Priorities

with Karen Kornbluh, Susan Rice, Steve Coll and Maya MacGuineas August 15, 2008

Towards Fiscal Responsibility

with Leon Panetta, Bill Frenzel, and others May 20, 2008

The Presidential Candidates' Domestic Policy Proposals

April 29, 2008

CRFB Annual Roundtable and Dinner

April 2, 2008

Rethinking Social Insurance

February 19, 2008

Patch it or Pitch it: Reforming the AMT with Rep. Steny Hoyer, Rep. Paul Ryan, and others

December 6, 2007

CBO Director to Release New Long-Term Healthcare Projections

November 13, 2007

The Unavoidable Challenge: Confronting Our Nation's Fiscal Crisis

October 23, 2007

Annual Conference & Dinner (Summary & Video)

March 13, 2007

Other Recent Events...

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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is a bipartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public about issues that have significant fiscal policy impact.

 

Co-Chairman

William Frenzel

Timothy Penny

Charlie Stenholm

 

President

Maya MacGuineas

 

Directors

Barry Anderson
Roy Ash
Charles Bowsher

Steve Coll

Dan L. Crippen

Vic Fazio
Willis D. Gradison, Jr.
William H. Gray, III
William Hoagland

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

James R. Jones

Lou Kerr
Jim Kolbe

James T. Lynn
James T. Mclntyre Jr.
David Minge
Jim Nussle

Marne Obernauer, Jr.
June O'Neill
Rudolph G. Penner
Peter G. Peterson
Robert Reischauer
Alice Rivlin
Gene Steuerle

David Stockman
Paul A. Volcker
Carol Cox Wait

David M. Walker

Joseph R. Wright, Jr.

Senior Advisors

Henry Bellmon
Elmer Staats
Robert S. Strauss