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Budget Enforcement Provisions in the Bipartisan Path Forward
As we have written before, key elements of the Bipartisan Path Forward focus on reducing the debt as a percentage of GDP over the long term. Bowles...
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Discretionary Savings in the Bipartisan Path Forward
Over the past few years, lawmakers have made the most progress in discretionary spending in the deficit reduction effort. Additional opportunities for...
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MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson April 2013
Erskine Bowles and former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY), the two former co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission, have spent the last two and a half year...
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Op-Ed: A Grand Bargain is Still Possible. Here’s How.
Washington Post | April 29, 2013 In the 2½ years since the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform that we co-chaired released its...
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How Simpson and Bowles Protect the Disadvantaged
Among the principles outlined by former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Senator Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles in their new plan A Bipartisan Path Forward...
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Op-Ed: Obama’s Legacy Rests on Reducing the Debt
The Hill | April 26, 2013 Second presidential terms build legacies, and this president’s will be tied solidly to the decisions he makes about the...
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New Simpson-Bowles Plan Would Boost Economic Growth, Not Slow It
Some commentators have criticized deficit reduction plans like " A Bipartisan Path Forward" for, in their opinion, promoting austerity at a time when...
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The President's Budget in the Long Term
Continuing our analysis of the President's FY 2014 budget proposal, we turn to how the President's budget would affect long-term revenues and spending...
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The Bipartisan Path Forward's Medicare Buy-in
In an effort to bridge differences in long-term structural reforms to federal health spending, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Senator Al Simpson...
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"A Bipartisan Path Forward" and the Long Term
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson's new plan, " A Bipartisan Path Forward to Securing America's Future," saves $2.5 trillion to $2.85 trillion over the...
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CBO Takes a Look at the CPI-E
Opponents of the chained CPI often propose an alternative index for cost-of-living adjustments, the experimental CPI for Americans 62 years of age and...