Budget Process and Rules
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New Life for Generational Accounting
Senators John Thune (R-SD), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Chris Coons (D-DE) have introduced the Intergenerational Financial Obligations...
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CRFB Looks Toward the Upcoming Fiscal Discussions
On May 19, the debt ceiling was reinstated as the Treasury Department began to use extraordinary measures to prevent running up against the debt limit...
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Budget Reforms Come to the Forefront in the House Budget Committee
Last week, the House Budget Committee released a package of budget process reforms consisting of seven different pieces of legislation. Four of these...
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Notable Amendments to the Senate-Passed Budget
As the Senate worked on its FY 2014 budget resolution, which passed by a 50-49 vote late last week, hundreds of amendments were filed in a process...
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Senator Murray Brings Citizens Into Budget Process
Today, Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) unveiled a new feature on her Committee's website called MyBudget, which allows constituents...
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"Fixing the Debt: Reforming the Tax Code and Federal Health Spending" Recap
Yesterday, the Fix the Debt Campaign had a event with two roundtables bringing together many health policy and tax experts from across the political...
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Fiscal Transparency in the U.S. and Abroad
Yesterday in a blog post, IMF's Fiscal Affairs Director Carlo Cottarelli stressed the need for fiscal transparency on the part of governments around...
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Bipartisan Policy Center Releases a "Framework for a Grand Bargain"
With Congress in recess until after the elections, a plan to replace the fiscal cliff with a comprehensive debt deal will have to get done during the...
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Revisiting Dynamic Scoring
The use of dynamic scoring is one of the most contested issues in the budget world. We highlighted the pros and cons of using it and the issues...
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The True Cost of Federal Credit Programs?
In a new report released yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office looked at the difference in accounting methods used to score federal credit...
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Dynamic Scoring Explained
What is dynamic scoring? How are legislative proposals currently scored? CRFB's latest policy paper details the process and methods that the...
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Fixing Medicare Double-Counting
Donald Marron, who recently wrote a blog post on how budget limits are treated in Congressional rules, wrote a piece today detailing how Medicare Part...