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CBO's Monthly Budget Review: Higher Deficit than Last Year but with Signs of Hope
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued its Monthly Budget Review late last week. CBO reports that the federal government incurred a deficit of...
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CAP Takes the Spending Challenge
The Center for American Progress recently discussed what it would take to meet the President's fiscal goal of a primary balance in 2015, or finding...
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‘Line’ Items: Derby Edition
Super Saver Cashes In – Those who couldn’t resist the irony of betting it all on a horse named Super Saver were rewarded handsomely on Saturday as the...
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Does the Health Care Bill Cost More Than We Thought?
Last week the Office of the Medicare Chief Actuary came out with their " Estimated Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," as...
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Plenty of 'Hues and Cries' Here
In an article today from Huffington Post, Hue and Cry, Former South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings takes aim at organizations, experts, and...
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Blue Dog Demands May Hinder House Budget Resolution
The Blue Dog coalition is pushing for further spending cuts beyond what is in the President’s and Senate’s budget proposals.
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Improper Payments Are a Start--But Cuts Must Go Deeper
In an OMBlog today, OMB director Peter Orszag applauded the House's passage of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act. Improper payments...
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'The Most Predictable Economic Crisis We've Ever Had'
Concluding earlier this afternoon, the inaugural meeting of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform laid the...
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Webcast: Debt Commission Kicks Off First Meeting
The President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform kicks off today with its first meeting to discuss the country's long-term...
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‘Line’ Items: Draft Edition
Budget Resolution Drafted – The NFL isn’t the only entity that made key decisions for the future last week. On Thursday the Senate Budget Committee...
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Where the Treasury Stands with GM, Chrysler, and AIG
GM has been getting some prominent press coverage over the past few days, following their repayment of $4.7 billion to the Treasury on Tuesday. The...
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You Say You Want a Resolution
The Senate Budget Committee yesterday approved of a fiscal year 2011 budget proposal by a largely party line 12-10 vote, setting up a heated floor...