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Today, CRFB released its newest paper outlining options for controlling federal health care costs. Federal health spending is projected to grow at a...

Today in The Hill, they have put together a six article package on the looming automatic cuts to the defense budget found in the sequester. These cuts...

Decisions, Decisions – Washington waits with bated breath for the Supreme Court to rule Thursday on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act...

A new story is suggesting that members of Congress from both parties are trying to delay the sequester until March. This is not the first time we have...

Politicos, policy wonks, and citizens will all be eagerly waiting Monday for a possible Supreme Court’s ruling on the ACA. Speculation in particular...

An article today in POLITICO games out four possible scenarios for how the fiscal cliff could be resolved (or not). They discuss the benefits and...

In an op-ed in The Hill, former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) urged Congress to begin to take action on the budget before the election. He says that rather...

Although a bit under the radar, the appropriations process in both the House and Senate is moving forward in a relatively timely manner (OK, maybe the...

The Senate passed the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act (i.e. the 2012 Farm Bill) today on a 64-35 vote. The bill included $969 billion of...

On Monday, we presented a budgetary analysis of the effect the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act could have on the budget. Naturally...

The Hill has an informative article today on how former chair of the Senate Budget committee, former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) is increasingly...

We're seeing more stories, in recent days, floating the idea that policymakers might waive the entire fiscal cliff, at least temporarily. One piece in...