Budget Process
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Senate Budget Procedures - Prospects for Reform
Read moreBefore the Senate adjourned in July for summer recess, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) released an outline recommending changes to...
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Chairman Enzi Proposes Budget Process Reforms
Read moreSenate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) outlined his recommendations for budget process reform yesterday based on bipartisan discussions in...
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Shedding Light on the Fiscal State of the Nation
Read moreRepresentative Jim Renacci (R-OH) along with Representative John Carney (D-DE) and 22 other original cosponsors introduced a bipartisan Fiscal State...
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Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Fiscal Commission Bill
Read moreSenators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced legislation that would create a bipartisan National...
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The Need for Fiscal Goals
Read moreThe House Budget Committee held a hearing on Wednesday (June 15, 2016) on budget process reform and the need for fiscal goals. CRFB president Maya...
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Maya MacGuineas's Testimony on Setting a Fiscal Goal
Read moreOn June 15, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the House Budget Committee on "Setting a Fiscal Goal...
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A Nation Without a Budget: Statement by Maya MacGuineas
Read moreOnce again, we are a nation without a budget. Congress has blown past its own deadline for passing a budget and is now working on appropriations bills...
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House and Senate Move Forward on Appropriations
Read moreThis year's deadline has already passed without a budget resolution coming from either chamber, but the appropriations season is still moving forward...
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Updated Appropriations 101
Read moreNote: We have updated this paper, please see our Updated Appropriations 101. What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by...
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David Perdue & Maya MacGuineas: Repairing the budget process
Read moreSenator David Perdue, the junior senator from Georgia, and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a...
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Event Recap: Fixing the Budget Process
Read moreAs part of our Better Budget Process Initiative, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget recently hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill called...
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Strengthening the Budget Resolution
Read moreOne of the key elements of the Congressional Budget Control and Impoundment Act of 1974 (Budget Act) was the provision to adopt a budget resolution...