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An Interesting Analysis of Interest Rates
The Congressional Budget Office has been busy on its blog lately, posting both snapshots of federal programs and also publishing responses to...
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Notable Amendments to the Senate-Passed Budget
As the Senate worked on its FY 2014 budget resolution, which passed by a 50-49 vote late last week, hundreds of amendments were filed in a process...
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Comparing the Budgets on Spending, Revenue, Deficits, and Debt
Update: This blog has been updated since its original posting to incorporate the House Democratic, Republican Study Commitee, and Senator Rand Paul (R...
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MY VIEW: George Voinovich
In today's Cincinnati Enquirer, CRFB board member and former Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) calls on Ohio's congressional members to get serious...
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Budgets Agree on One Thing: Putting Debt on a Downward Path
Although the budget resolutions out now take a variety of paths to deficit reduction, we've noticed something that all have in common: they all...
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Fill in the Blanks: The Unspecified Parts of the Budget Resolutions
Continuing in our analysis of the FY 2014 budget resolutions, we will be discussing the things in the budgets that the authors didn't tell you. There...
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The Government Funding Bill: Winners and Losers
The field has been narrowed from 68 to 64 teams, and the NCAA Tournament is ready to kick off in full this afternoon. But the Big Dance isn't the only...
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CBO: Approaches for Scaling Back DoD's Budget Plans
It is a well-known fact that the U.S. spends a sizeable amount on defense, more than the next 15 countries combined, including China and Russia. But...
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Republican Study Committee Adds to the Alternative Budgets
Yesterday, the House Republican Study Committee (RSC) released its " Back to Basics" budget, which aims to balance the budget in four years instead of...
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Testimony at Joint Economic Committee
The two goals reinforce each other and neither can be achieved without the other. Weak economic growth—or worse, sliding back into recession—will...
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Op-Ed: Debt Deal We Need is in Reach
The Hill | March 18, 2013 Robert Zoellick, the past head of the World Bank, is fond of telling the story of how the Foreign Minister of Australia said...
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Van Hollen Releases House Democrats' Alternative Budget
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, has released an alternative budget on behalf of House Democrats, " Jobs...