Budget Process and Rules
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Line Items: Botched Snap Edition
Washington Drops the Ball – To many federal budget watchers, the tax cut debate has been more frustrating than watching the Redskins play. The...
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‘Line’ Items: What Now? Edition
Commission Can’t Quite Commit – The President’s Fiscal Commission was able to produce a fiscal plan last week that garnered a bipartisan majority of...
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Appropriations Update: Will We Get a Spending Plan for Christmas?
Once again, Congress earlier this week had to pass a short-term stop-gap spending measure to keep the lights on. The House and Senate passed a...
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The Fiscal Commission's Plan
The co-chairs of the President's fiscal commission today released the deficit reduction plan that members will be asked to vote on Friday. Alan...
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Great Minds Think About Budget Process
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) released a report today proposing 15 ways that the federal budget process could be improved to give a clearer picture of the...
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Earmarks Are Just a Start
Earmarks have long been a favorite bogeyman here in D.C. – as examples of wasteful government spending and back-door deal making. The recent election...
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Gene Steuerle in the Ripon Forum
CRFB board member Gene Steuerle has a piece in the Ripon Forum on the need for deficit reduction and budget process reform. He mentions the new...
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‘Line’ Items: Lame Duck Edition
Roast (Lame) Duck is Served – The lame duck session of Congress begins today, but it is already being panned as unlikely to be very productive. As we...
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Peterson-Pew Commission Issues New Report!
The Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform today called on Congress and the President to overhaul the federal budget process in a new report...
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The Fiscal Commission Gets Specific!
In a move much earlier than we expected, the Co-Chairs of the White House Fiscal Commission released their plan on how to get control of our national...
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Budget Reform: An Opportunity for Bipartisan Collaboration
Nearly a year ago, in its first report, Red Ink Rising, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform raised the alarm about the impact of our...
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Learning from Others – A World of Experience
As part of its work over the last 2 years, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform looked at how other governments facing big fiscal challenges...