Congressional Budgets
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Pairing Debt Limit Reform with Budget Goals
Read moreA recent bipartisan House letter from 30 Democrats and 30 Republicans requests budget reforms in forthcoming legislation, such as combining debt limit...
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Correcting the Record on the Enzi-Whitehouse Budget Reforms
Read morePrior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis, the Senate Budget Committee voted 15 to 6 to approve the Bipartisan...
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House Members Promote a Bipartisan Framework for Budget Reforms
Read moreA bipartisan group of 60 lawmakers, led by Representatives Scott Peters (D-CA) and Jodey Arrington (R-TX), released a letter to House leadership this...
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Hails Responsible Economic Leadership
Read moreFor Immediate Release A bipartisan group of 60 members of Congress – led by Reps. Scott Peters (D-CA) and Jodey Arrington (R-TX) – issued a letter...
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Blue Dogs to House Budget Committee: Produce a Budget
Read moreSeveral members of the House Blue Dog Coalition sent a letter to House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) last week calling for the...
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Congress Increasingly Fails to Budget
Read moreThe Congressional budget process calls for an annual budget resolution to make explicit the tradeoffs between discretionary spending, direct spending...
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Letter to Senate Budget Committee: Advance Bipartisan Budget Improvements
Read moreBelow is a letter sent today from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas to Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi...
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Enzi's Proposals Would Improve the Budget Process
Read moreSenate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has developed a series of draft budget process reforms. As we’ve explained before, the current...
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Budget Deal's Offsets Don't Even Cover The Interest
Read morePresident Trump and leaders in Congress announced a deal this week to increase caps on discretionary spending by $169 billion in 2020 and $153 billion...
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Five Reasons to Oppose the Budget Deal
Read moreCongressional leaders and the President announced a proposed budget deal yesterday to raise the caps on discretionary spending for Fiscal Years (FY)...
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Kent Conrad's Testimony on the Broken Budget Process
Read moreOn May 14, 2019, former Senate Budget Committee Chairman and Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget board member Kent Conrad (D-ND) testified...
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WATCH: Conrad and Gregg Testify Before Senate Budget Committee
Read moreTwo former Senate Budget chairmen are testifying today before the Senate Budget Committee on the failures of the current budget process and the...