Congressional Budgets
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Letter to Congress to Abide By PAYGO
Read moreBelow is a letter from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas to all Members of Congress asking them to offset the costs...
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New Budget Cap Plan Would Cost As Much As the Tax Cuts
Read moreEarlier this week, the House Budget Committee reported a bill – the Investing for the People Act of 2019 – that would increase current law caps on...
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Proposed Budget Plan Would Cost Over $2 Trillion
Read moreIn lieu of a budget resolution, the House Budget Committee has put forward a bill to increase discretionary spending caps by $358 billion over the...
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Last Year Was the Only Where Congress Did Not Vote On a Budget
Read moreLast year was a historically bad year for the Congressional budget process. Since 1976, it was the first time that neither the Senate or House voted...
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Senate Budget Committee Sets the Stage for Responsible Budget Deal
Read moreSenate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has released his Chairman's Mark for the FY 2020 budget resolution, covering the next five fiscal...
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Senate Budget Plan Includes Realistic Deficit Reduction
Read moreFor Immediate Release: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) introduced today a Chairman’s Mark of the Fiscal Year 2020 budget resolution...
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The Progressive Caucus FY 2019 "People's Budget"
Read moreThe Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) released its “The People’s Budget: A Roadmap for the Resistance” for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019, which calls for...
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We Need Functional, Not Budget-Busting, Bipartisanship
Read moreThe House and Senate appear to be moving through the appropriations process better and faster than any time in at least the last nine years. Congress...
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Congress Should Vote on the Budget
Read moreFor Immediate Release The House Budget Committee passed a budget resolution last week, but lawmakers have not indicated when or if it will come to a...
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It Would Be Unprecedented to Not Even Consider a Budget
Read moreFor Immediate Release Over a month after the statutory deadline to complete a budget, neither the House nor Senate Budget Committees have even...
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Congress Has Never Failed to Propose a Budget
Read moreThere has never been a year where at least one of the two congressional Budget Committees have not proposed a budget. Since the modern budget process...
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Paul & Sanford Introduce Penny Plans
Read moreSenator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Representative Mark Sanford (R-SC) have introduced “penny plans” that would balance the budget within a decade through a...