Budgets & Projections
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Comparing Health Care Reform Bills (Updated Charts and Interactive Graphs)
CRFB has yet again updated its health care comparison chart -- as well as its interactive shareable graphs -- in light of CBO's latest score of the...
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Preliminary Estimate of Reconciliation Act from CBO
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the JCT have completed a preliminary estimate of the "spending and revenue effects of an amendment in the...
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Health Bill Increases Discretionary Spending by At Least $65-$75 billion
When we have discussed health care reform, in the past, we have charted and graphed the effects of the bills on direct spending (general mandatory...
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House Spenders Question Administration Troika on Deficits, Fiscal Commission, and Job Growth
In today’s hearing before the full House Appropriations Committee, the troika (OMB Director Peter Orszag, Treasury Secretary Geithner, and Dr...
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‘Line’ Items: Health Care Moves, Budget Doesn’t
Health Care Reform Moves Toward Showdown – The House Budget Committee today voted to push health care legislation forward. It now moves to the House...
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CBO/JCT Reports Roundup
A number of very interesting and relevant government reports came out this week. Check them out: JCT: Technical Explanation Of The Revenue Provisions...
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Republicans Named to Deficit Commission
Congressional GOP leaders have just named three Senators and three Congressman to sit on the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform...
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Costs of Policy Changes under President's Budget
CRFB has updated its comparisons of the costs of the President's proposed policies -- outlined in the President's FY 2011 Budget -- incorporating new...
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Debating Revenue Under Paul Ryan's "Roadmap for America's Future"
A month and a half ago, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his " Roadmap for America's Future," a detailed plan to reform taxes and spending...
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States Face Huge Unfunded Liabilities in Their Pension Plans
On Tuesday, March 9, the New York Times reported about how state and local pension funds are changing their investment strategies to improve their...
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Deadlines Are Made To Be Broken
Here's a good one for you: Using the House legislative calendar as a guide, as of March 10, Congress will have 16 legislative days to enact a budget...
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More Analysis of the President's Budget
On Friday, the Congressional Budget Office released its Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget. (Last week we offered a few graphs and a short...