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Today, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) spoke on the floor of the Senate about the need for health entitlement reforms to be part of a deficit reduction...

Last Congress, H.R. 452 was introduced in the House to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a 15 member board of Senate-confirmed...

Last week, Paul Krugman took issue with Tom Friedman's comparison between climate change and the debt situation, but unfortunately missed the mark...

Update: The Bipartisian Policy Center has created an interactive debt ceiling timeline, which can be found here. Today the House passed a temporary...

Urban Institute Fellow and CRFB board member Gene Steuerle suggests that the greatest challenge for today's lawmakers is not action, but realizing...

Along with a two month delay until March 1, the fiscal cliff deal reduced the across-the-board cuts under sequestration for 2013 by $24 billion...

New Term of Office, New Terms of Debate? – President Obama kicked-off his second term on Monday with the official inauguration ceremonies in...

The House is pressing forward this week on debt ceiling legislation that contains a few different moving parts. The bill would buy lawmakers some more...

Yesterday, CRFB board member and former Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) illustrated in The Arizona Republic that only a package that includes substantial...

In a New York Times op-ed the other day, Paul Krugman argues that the urgency and significance of the debate over the federal budget deficit are...

Our recent blog " Putting the Debt on a Downward Path" emphasizes how changes in economic projections can affect the budget for better or for worse...

In an op-ed in the Hill, former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) is calling on Congressional Republicans not to use the debt ceiling as leverage for...