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George Voinovich: Congress Shouldn't Get Paid After Letting Down the Country With Latest Shutdown
Read moreIn an op-ed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer yesterday, former Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) criticized the current Congress not just for the ongoing...
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Government Shutdown Limits Budget Data, Too
Read moreLast week, we noted that the furlough of "non-essential" employees at the Congressional Budget Office due to the government shutdown could halt the...
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Op-Ed: If Congress Won't Lead, Others Must
Read moreStar Tribune | October 5, 2013 Here we are again, watching as our national leaders engage in another fiscal fistfight. Partisan rancor, sadly, is now...
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The CR and the Medical Device Tax (Take Two)
Read moreAs Congress negotiates a proposal to pass a continuing resolution and reopen the government, they may enact other policy at the same time. One such...
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Government Shutdown Limits Budget Options (Literally!)
Read moreThe government is still shut down, the debt ceiling is fast approaching, and the need to put our debt on a sustainble path remains. This environment...
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Op-Ed: American Nightmare
Read morePublic Finance International | October 1, 2013 The US government, and large parts of American society, have strayed from the principles and values on...
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(Un)happy Fiscal New Year!
Read moreToday, October 1st, marks the first day of the 2014 fiscal year for the government, and the first day of a government shutdown in which 40 percent of...
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Welcome to Shutdown
Read moreToday is the first October, first day of 2014 fiscal year, and because of the failure of Congress, the first day of the government shutdown. Yesterday...
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On the Brink of Shutdown?
Read moreToday is September 30, the last day of the government's fiscal year. If Congress does not agree on a continuing resolution today to authorize spending...
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Discussion with CBO Director Elmendorf on the Costs of Waiting to Address Fiscal Challenges
Read moreAt the House Budget Committee hearing on CBO's Long-Term Outlook, Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI), who last week sent a letter calling for action on Social...
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We Need More Than $13 Trillion in Deficit Reduction Over the Next 20 Years
Read moreIn light of CBO's updated long-term projections, and our subsequent CRFB Realistic Long-Term Projections, CRFB has taken a fresh look at the minimum...
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Introducing CRFB's Latest Long-Term Realistic Baseline
Read moreThe release of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Long-Term Budget Outlook is one of the big events in the budget world, and we'd like to think...