Budget Process and Rules
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Four Gimmicks to Watch Out For
As Congress begins the appropriations process, maneuvers through this year’s Fiscal Speed Bumps, and looks to pay for the costs of new legislation...
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Reps. Carney and Renacci Release Bill Improving Budget Process
This week, Representatives John Carney (D-DE) and Jim Renacci (R-OH) introduced a bipartisan bill to improve the budget process. The Budget Integrity...
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Repairing How the Budget Treats the Highway Trust Fund
In our recently released plan, The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending, we propose a variety of measures to support the Highway Trust Fund (HTF)...
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Budget Process in the FY 2016 Congressional Budget Resolution
During the consideration of the FY 2016 budget, we continually wrote about the budget process provisions in the major budget resolutions as well as...
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Updated Appropriations 101
Note: We have updated this paper, please see the latest Appropriations 101. What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by...
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Budget Conference
With the budget conference complete, it is now up to each chamber of Congress to pass the FY 2016 concurrent budget resolution. We've already written...
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CRFB Publishes Analysis of Budget Process in the FY 2016 Budget Resolutions
With the House and Senate preparing to go to conference to work out the differences between their budget resolutions, we published a paper Tuesday...
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A Budget Conference - Now What?
The House and Senate will soon appoint a formal conference committee to iron out differences between their two budgets, even though press reports...
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SGR Bill Triggers Several Rule Violations
We have described at length the fiscal irresponsibility of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) reform bill (H.R. 2) working its way through Congress --...