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‘Line’ Items: September to Forget Edition
Not Much Worth Remembering – As September closes this week, it is clear that lawmakers already have one foot out the door; anxious to return home to...
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Appropriations Update: Stopgaps and Lame Ducks
Managing to perform below the already-low bar set by recent precedent, Congress will not finish work on any FY 2011 appropriations bills before the...
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House Passes Small Business Bill
Today, the House passed HR 5297, the small business bill that had been stalled in Congress for weeks. It is expected that President Obama will sign it...
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The House GOP “Pledge to America”
Today the Republican caucus of the House of Representatives released an agenda-setting document as a part of its strategy to take control of the House...
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What Would It Look Like If the U.S. Adopted Britain's New Budget?
The remarkable level of austerity proposed in Britain’s new emergency budget made news around the world (see our earlier blog for details) as, in the...
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Center for American Progress Details What Spending Cuts Could Look Like
Attemping to show how deep policymakers would have to cut spending to reduce the deficit to primary balance in 2015, the Center for American Progress...
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Putting the Tax Cuts in Perspective
With Congress back in session, the mid-term election right around the corner, and a looming expiration, the debate of the 2001-2003 tax cuts is...
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‘Line’ Items: Fall Edition
Falling Into Pieces – Fall officially begins this week. A short congressional calendar and the quickly-approaching elections mean that the legislative...
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Lew: 'We Must Put Our Nation Back on a Sustainable Fiscal Course'
Yesterday, the Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on Jacob Lew’s nomination as the new head of the Office of Management and Budget, where he...
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A Not So Happy Anniversary
Nobody's breaking out the champagne for this anniversary. On this day two years ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers turned an already bad-looking...
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Disability Insurance Program Seeing Increased Applicants... and Increased Trouble
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the number of workers seeking disability benefits from Social Security’s Disability Insurance Program has...
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‘Line’ Items: Football Edition
Kick-off Time – Football season got underway this weekend, and the final legislative drive before the mid-term elections also commences this week. The...