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Messy Appropriations Process Goes Forward
Update: The Senate Appropriations Committee has released its companion CR/appropriations bill package with total funding at the same level as the...
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CBO Updates Estimate of 112th Congress Farm Bills
The last Congress attempted to work out a new farm bill but could never reach an agreement. The American Taxpayer Relief Act, the agreement reached...
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The Latest Official Sequester Numbers
On Friday, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its latest detailed report of how the cuts in sequestration will be allocated. The...
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Alter: Why Entitlement Reforms Are Essential
Friday at 11:59 PM, sequestration officially began, triggering sharp across-the-board cuts without much progress on bipartisan replacement plan. Our...
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Burwell Nominated for OMB Director
In a move that had been anticipated for a while, the Obama Administration has nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be the next OMB director. Jeff...
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Senate Sequester Proposals Get Scored
We brought up a couple of weeks ago that there were a number of plans to replace the sequester for either a year or permanently. Now, CBO has given us...
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Brookings Rethinks...Natural Disasters, Transportation, Visas & Housing
Our fourth blog on "15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget," a new report from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton project examines national disaster...
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Op-Ed: A Bad Sequester Is Worlds Better Than No Budget Deal At All
Forbes | February 26, 2013 Barring an unexpected breakthrough agreement between the Democratic Senate and the Republican House, the federal budget...
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Brookings Rethinks and Remakes the Federal Budget
Today, the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution will be kicking off its " 15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget" project with an event on two...
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FAQ's About the New Framework From Simpson and Bowles
On Tuesday, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson released a framework that calls for an additional $2.4 trillion in...
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Poll Shows Economists Believe Grand Bargain Could Help Growth
Yesterday, we highlighted the consensus between economists and leaders in both parties on the need to replace the sequester. Today, a USA Today poll...
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Democrats, Republicans, Economists All Want to Replace the Sequester
With the March 1 deadline of sequestration only nine days away, lawmakers should work toward developing a plan that would replace the across-the-board...