Blog
Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
MY VIEW: Joshua Gordon and Jason Peuquet
Jason Peuquet, research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, has an op-ed with Joshua Gordon of the Concord Coalition in the San...
Paying the Costs of Bonus Depreciation
In the coming weeks, both the House and Senate are expected to begin discussing what to do with a number of expired tax provisions known as the "tax...
Steny Hoyer Calls for a 'Grand Bargain'
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) called on Congress to lay the groundwork for a budget grand bargain. Speaking this morning, Hoyer urged members...
CBO: Senate "Doc Fix" Would Add $215 Billion to the Debt
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new estimate of the fiscally irresponsible Senate “doc fix” bill, showing it would increase Medicare...
President’s Budget Calls for Record Low Discretionary Spending, Record High Revenue
As we showed last week, OMB projections show the President's budget will put the debt on a downward path this decade with deficits below 2 percent of...
Camp Makes Responsible Choices on Tax Extenders
While Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp's (R-MI) Tax Reform Act of 2014 (TRA) misses a critical opportunity to use tax reform to slow the...
Progressive Caucus Releases Budget
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) kicked off the Congressional budget season last week by releasing its " Better Off Budget." This release...
Kent Conrad: In Camp's Camp--Praising the Effort on Tax Reform
Kent Conrad, former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, wrote a commentary in Roll Call . It is reposted here. The courage to tackle tough...
Unpaid-for Doc Fix Could Cost Trillions over Long Run
Proposals to "pay for" (or not pay for) a repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula have come out this week, and the verdict has been mostly...
There They Go Again: More Timing Gimmicks Being Used as Offsets
It seems to be Gimmick Week in DC. After two of the Medicare physician payment bills offset their costs with gimmicks, the recently announced...
Actually, The SGR Has Slowed Health Care Cost Growth
To bolster their case against offsetting the high cost of SGR reform, many have claimed that the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) is “ budget...
Three Out of Four Doc Fix Plans Would Worsen the Debt
Note: This blog has been updated from its original posting to include the CBO score of the Senate Republican proposal. With the current "doc fix" set...