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.
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‘Line’ Items: Fall Back Edition
It’s About Time – If you arrived to work an hour early today then you forgot to set your clock back this weekend. The opportunity to “fall back” and...
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How to Save $600 Billion in Health Care While Protecting the Disadvantaged
In his testimony to the Super Committee, Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles floated a compromise plan which would, among other things, reduce...
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McConnell Lends Support for "Go Big"
According to The Hill, Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has signaled to Senate colleagues that he would be willing to support a $4...
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What Have the Rating Agencies Been Saying?
Moody's issued a report the other day stating that failure by the Super Committee would not by itself cause them to strip the U.S. of its AAA rating...
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Bowles Plan Offers Path to Compromise
At the end of Tuesday's Super Committee hearing, Fiscal Commission co-chair and CRFB board member Erskine Bowles offered up top-line numbers...
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Go Big Is In the House
Today, Representatives Heath Shuler (D-NC) and Mike Simpson (R-ID) held a press conference to release a new letter to the Super Committee signed by...
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Social Security Debate Heats Up
With reports that the Super Committee has been considering reforms to Social Security, rhetoric from all sides of the issue has been heating up. This...
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Fiscal Commission Co-Chair Erskine Bowles Presents Compromise Plan to Super Committee
At the end of the just-concluded hearing of the Super Committee, Fiscal Commission Co-Chair and CRFB Board Member Erskine Bowles presented his top...
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MY VIEW: Bill Frenzel, Tim Penny, Jim Nussle, and Charlie Stenholm
Today in Politico, all four of the CRFB Co-Chairs penned an op-ed entitled, To Deficit Panel: Go Big, Long and Smart. Bill Frenzel, Tim Penny, Jim...
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CRFB Live Tweeting Super Committee Hearing with Bowles, Simpson, Domenici, and Rivlin
Later today, the Super Committee will be holding another public hearing with Fiscal Commission co-chairs, Moment of Truth Project Advisors, and CRFB...
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MY VIEW: Vic Fazio
Today's Roll Call included an op-ed by former Representative and current CRFB board member Vic Fazio. He discusses the need for fiscal reform right...
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Line Items: Halloween Edition
Happy Halloween – Anyone with kids, or anyone who enjoys scaring kids, knows that today is Halloween; the day of the year it is acceptable to wear...