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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.
Bipartisan Commission Proposed to Eliminate Wasteful Government Programs
Yesterday, a bipartisan group of four Representatives introduced legislation to establish a permanent sunset commission. Representatives Jim Cooper (D...
Fed's Lockhart Calls for "Bipartisan, Credible Long-Term Plan to Stabilize the Deficit"
The President of the Atlanta branch of the Federal Reserve, Dennis Lockhart, made some important statements regarding our fiscal situation. While the...
MarketWatch: February 7-10, 2011
While this week’s government bond auctions ($72 billion worth) were digested more easily than expected, yields for the benchmark 10-year bond and 30...
What We Know About the President's Budget
Updated February 10th to include National Infrastructure Bank.* As the budget world waits for the FY 2012 Budget on Monday, some new proposals from...
So What Should We Think About Going to 2008 Levels?
There’s been a lot of discussion about the recent spending cuts put forward by Representative Ryan (R-WI), designed to bring non-security...
House Appropriations Committee Offers Detailed List of Cuts
Today, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers (R-KY) released a preliminary proposal for cuts to the President's FY2011 budget...
Bipartisan Senate Support for Enhanced Presidential Rescission Authority
Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Thomas Carper (D-DE) have joined efforts in yet another bipartisan pairing, this time to enable enhanced rescission...
CNN Money Exclusive: No Excuses on the Debt, Mr. Obama
In her latest commentary on CNN money, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas calls on President Obama to stop making excuses and get serious about developing...
Spotlight on the States: New York
This week, our Spotlight on the States series takes us to New York. New York faces an estimated budget deficit of $10 billion. Due to slower-than...
‘Line’ Items: Play On Edition
Budget Season Ramping Up – Football season may have ended last night, but budget season is just heating up. Lawmakers have introduced a plethora of...
OMB Director in New York Times: "The Easy Cuts Are Behind Us"
OMB Director Jack Lew previewed President Obama’s FY2012 budget in an op-ed published in Sunday’s New York Times. The title of the piece, "The Easy...
House and Senate to Have Serious Debate Over Spending
With the House Appropriations Committee releasing their spending allocations for each subcommittee yesterday, it is useful to examine what the Senate...