Budget Process
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A Long-Term Budget for Entitlements and Required Revenues
Read moreby Stuart Butler and Maya MacGuineas This paper represents a joint project of the Brookings Institution and Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
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Budget Reconciliation Shouldn't Add to Deficit
Read moreSenator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has filed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2017 budget resolution being considered in the Senate that would restore the...
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Event Recap: Gene Steuerle Explains How the Budget Offices Can Reframe Our Long-Term Budget Problems
Read moreAt the Savings and Retirement Foundation’s December meeting, Gene Steuerle, Urban Institute Fellow and CRFB Board Member, presented his recent paper,...
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Event Recap: Chairman Price Releases Budget Process Agenda
Read moreHouse Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) outlined his recommendations for budget process reforms last week during a keynote lecture at an...
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Reconciliation 101
Read moreNote: We have updated this paper, please see our Updated Reconciliation 101. What is reconciliation? Reconciliation is a special legislative process...
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Debt Limit Deadline: March 16, 2017 – Time for Reform?
Read moreOne of the first legislative deadlines President-elect Donald Trump and the 115th Congress will face is the need to raise the debt limit. The budget...
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Senator Perdue Outlines Ideas for Budget Process Reform
Read moreAfter leading a colloquy on the Senate floor regarding problems with the budget process, Senator David Perdue (R-GA) outlined his plans for budget...
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Senator Dan Coats Introduces Bill To Establish Fiscal Commission
Read moreSenator Dan Coats (R-IN) introduced the ‘‘Mandatory Bureaucratic Realignment and Consolidation Commission Act of 2016’’ (or the ‘‘Mandatory BRACC Act’...
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Senator David Perdue Advocates For New Budget Process Reforms
Read moreAs Congress rushed to pass a temporary continuing resolution to keep the government operating when the fiscal year begins on Saturday, a group of...
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Event Recap: Budget Process Reform - Senate Perspectives
Read moreOn September 19, our Better Budget Process Initiative hosted Budget Process Reform - Senate Perspectives on Capitol Hill. The event featured a keynote...
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Gene Steuerle & Rudolph Penner: Restoring More Discretion to the Federal Budget
Read moreDr. C. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and Dr. Rudolph G. Penner is an Institute...
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Judd Gregg: Fixing the Budget
Read moreThe primary reason that the Congressional budget process is not functioning is that it requires difficult decisions. This is not something Congress is...