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Finally, the Senate got it right: we have a deficit-neutral stimulus. In fact, the bill would even slightly reduce deficits by $1.4 billion over the...

The Senate appears headed toward cutting discretionary spending even below the level called for by Senate appropriators. Senate Majority Leader Harry...

With Peter Orszag leaving OMB last Friday and Jacob Lew yet to be sworn in, Jeff Zients has been called in to fill the gap as acting director of OMB...

House Gone, Senate Eyeing the Exit – The House started its six-week recess Friday and the Senate will adjourn at the end of this week. Debate and a...

A few weeks ago, Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles suggested that in designing a plan, "revenue as a percentage of GDP [should not] be much...

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) introduced a deficit reduction and budget reform bill yesterday, aptly titled the Deficit Reduction and Budget Reform Act of...

Add another solid idea to the growing list of proposals to help improve federal budgeting and put the country on a sustainable fiscal course...

The week saw ups and downs of interest in Treasury debt instruments on the margin. Foreign interest backed off a little as perceptions of risk: return...

Signaling their desire to be more austere, House and Senate appropriators continued pushing their Fiscal 2011 spending bills through the system this...

Ever since health care reform passed in March, it's had a huge target on its back by those who want to repeal it. Unfortunately, the bullseye for some...

The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform held its fourth meeting yesterday where it heard from our very own CRFB President, Maya...

CRFB board member Doug Holtz-Eakin and CRFB president Maya MacGuineas both had essays in the most recent edition of the Ripon Forum. While they...