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Biden to Meet with Congressional Leaders about Budget
One day after President Obama signed a bill to avert - for at least 2 more weeks - a federal government shutdown, Vice President Joe Biden will meet...
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How Interest Rates Could Affect Deficits and Debt
Interest rates have an enormous effect on how much we pay each year on servicing our debt. In the Budget and Economic Outlook from January, CBO...
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Op-Ed: Spending Cuts Aren't Enough. It's Time to Fix the Budget.
CNN Money | February 28, 2011 President Obama's budget was such a tremendous letdown and a massive punt, I have to wonder if part of the White House's...
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Short-Term CR Looking More Likely
UPDATE 3/1: House passes two-week CR by vote of 335-91. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says that the bill will be taken up in the Senate and...
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‘Line’ Items: Of Brinkmanship and Statesmanship Edition
Shutting Down Versus Sitting Down – Congress returns to Washington this week after lawmakers spent last week back home. Just before leaving town the...
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MY VIEW: Barry Anderson
As the impacts of the economic recession continue to fade, serious debate on the direction of fiscal policy is finally beginning with very different...
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Clever Accounting in the 2012 Budget
So you (and we) don’t have to, Jason likes to spend his time looking into arcane federal education budget issues. In this case he’s writing about a...
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The President's Budget's Terminations, Reductions, and Savings
Every year, the President’s budget proposal includes a list of potential discretionary program cuts. These programs are those identified by the...
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What Will the Budget Look like in 2021?
In our continued analysis of the President’s budget, we now move to a detailed examination of what the budget, if enacted entirely and without future...
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‘Line’ Items: Presidents Day Edition
Day of Leaders – Today we celebrate great American leaders with mattress sales and a day off (for some) from work. Congress left town for the whole...
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Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs Express Hope
In an op-ed today on the Washington Post website, Erskine Bowles and Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairs of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal...
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Going to China, Before China Comes to Us
In a thoughtful Washington Post op-ed this morning, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) calls for leadership and shared sacrifice on the issue of deficit reduction...