Budget Process and Rules
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Double Counting and Medicare Part A
Last month, Social Security and Medicare Trustee Chuck Blahous sparked a controversy by saying that the Affordable Care Act would add to the deficit...
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Line Items: Tax Edition
Tax Reform Cometh…Eventually – Today is Tax Day, when federal tax returns are due. Procrastinators have DC Emancipation Day, a holiday in the District...
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The 2013 Budget Process Moves Forward...Sort Of
The House Republican budget resolution included reconciliation instructions to six committees to find $261 billion in savings over ten years intended...
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Line Items: Bloom and Gloom Edition
Bloom and Gloom – Washington’s famous Cherry Blossoms bloomed just ahead of the festival in their honor, and most promptly disappeared due to stormy...
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Budget Process Reforms in the Ryan Budget
The FY 2013 House Republican budget resolution, which has now been passed by the Budget Committee 19-18, contains a number of sweeping changes to the...
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Line Items: March to Madness Edition
Mad, Mad World – There’s enough madness in DC to go around. Lawmakers from opposite parties seem perpetually angry at each other, yet they are moving...
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An Odd Couple: Millionaire Surtax Paired with Balanced Budget Amendment Requirement
In what was surprising news to many when, yesterday, freshman Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR) announced that he would introduce legislation that would apply...
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2013 Appropriations Process Is Up in the Air
If there's anything people can agree on in Washington, it is that the current budget process is broken. Congress has not passed a budget resolution...
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Understanding Fair-Value Accounting
One of the wonkier discussions that arise inside the Washington beltway from time to time is what accounting method to use for federal credit programs...
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‘Line’ Items: Budget Day Edition
Big Day – Today is the big day in budget world. The White House released its fiscal year 2013 budget request. As you can imagine, CRFB has been busy...
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House Passes Modified Line Item Veto
Expedited rescission authority, a cousin of the line-item veto, has been considered countless times by Congress since the line item veto was declared...
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Integrating the Budget Process and the Campaign
Harvard Law School professor Howell Jackson has an interesting idea in a Reuters op-ed: if fiscal issues are going to be extremely important in the...