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.
Panetta Presents New Defense Budget
Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta fleshed out the widely-anticipated FY 2013 defense budget. The budget showed to some extent how the Obama...
House Budget Committee Advances Process Reform Proposals
As we mentioned in our press release earlier this week, the House Budget Committee has been working on legislation to reform the current budget...
A Gimmick on the Rise
Update: The American College of Physicians has also called for eliminating the SGR and the sequester and partially paying for them with war savings...
CRFB Calls For Fiscal Responsibility From the Conference Committee
With Congress back in session this week, there is a renewed focus on several provisions that lawmakers extended for two-months in December and which...
Recapping the State of the Union
President Obama gave his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night. The election-year speech contained a laundry list of proposals aimed to...
State of the Union Bingo Returns!
President Obama's State of the Union address next Tuesday is now only a couple days away. In anticipation of the President's speech, we at CRFB have...
Maya MacGuineas Testifies on Biennial Budgeting
Today, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas testified to the House Rules subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process on HR 114, a biennial budgeting...
CRFB Live Tweeting State of the Union
President Obama will be addressing the nation at 9 pm ET tonight for the annual State of the Union address, and CRFB will be active as well, live...
'Line' Items: State of the Union Edition
Stating the Obvious – President Obama delivers the State of the Union address Tuesday evening. The SOTU is the annual rite where presidents attempt to...
Two Good Op-Eds From The New York Times
The New York Times had two interesting op-eds over the weekend on two essential components of deficit reduction: tax reform and health care costs...
Spotlight on the States: Public Pension Reform
Continuing their efforts to close budget gaps, states across the country have looked to public pension reform as part of a possible solution. Among...
A Way to Reform the Tax Code, from AEI
Alex Brill of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) recently put out a tax reform plan that focuses on corporate taxes, but includes some individual...