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CRFB Urges Fiscal Commission to Agree on a Plan
As the Fiscal Commission discusses its final proposal for deficit reduction, CRFB issued a press release today urging the Commission’s members to come...
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Fiscal Commission to Release Final Report by Tomorrow Morning
The December 1st deadline for the President’s Fiscal Commission has nearly arrived. With a Co-Chairs draft proposal already in circulation (see our...
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'Line' Items: After the Turkey Edition
Washington Still Has a Full Plate -- Congress returns this week from its Thanksgiving break as fiscal issues will jolt policymakers from their turkey...
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'Our Fiscal Security' Gets Specific
You might have missed it last week if you were preparing to chow down on some turkey, but Our Fiscal Security (OFS)--a joint project of the Economic...
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What CRFB Is Thankful For...
As Thanksgiving approaches, we at CRFB wanted to take a moment to reflect on what we are thankful for. We are most thankful for the Simpson-Bowles...
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10 Themes Emerging from the New Debt Reduction Plans
We at CRFB have been calling for people to Get Specific on ways to deal with our long-term fiscal crisis for quite some time. Well, since that has...
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10 Themes Emerging from the New Debt Reduction Plans
In recent weeks, a number of plans have been released, recommending specific policies to deal with our fiscal challenges and to bring our debt back...
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‘Line’ Items: Talking Turkey Edition
Talking Turkey – Congress takes a break this week for Thanksgiving. Lawmakers can be thankful for the brief respite, but the time is quickly coming...
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Ryan-Rivlin Health Care Plan Unveiled
Many of the recent debt reduction plans—including, the fiscal commission's Co-Chairs' recent proposal, the Galston-MacGuineas plan, and the Debt...
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Another Blue-Ribbon Group Weighs In
The drumbeat for action to reduce our long-term debt continues. Today the Debt Reduction Task Force of the Bipartisan Policy Center issued its...
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Bill Frenzel on Bowles-Simpson
CRFB co-chair Bill Frenzel says "three cheers for Bowles and Simpson" as he and fellow Brookings experts talk about reducing the federal budget...