Congressional Budgets
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The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending
The current legislation authorizing highway and mass transit spending is scheduled to expire at the end of May, and only a few months later the...
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Updated Appropriations 101
Note: We have updated this paper, please see the latest Appropriations 101. What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by...
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A Budget Conference - Now What?
The House and Senate will soon appoint a formal conference committee to iron out differences between their two budgets, even though press reports...
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Republican Study Committee Publishes Alternative Budget
The Republican Study Committee (RSC) has released an alternative budget proposal that outlines their vision for the country’s fiscal future. Their...
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Rep. Mulvaney: "The Republican Budget Is a Deficit Bust"
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) wrote a commentary published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday in which he decried the recently-passed budgets in the...
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Debt and Deficits Under the FY 2016 Budgets
With budget consideration underway this week, the House has passed its own resolution and rejected several proposed alternatives, while the Senate...
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Progressive Caucus Releases Alternative Budget
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) threw their hat into the budget ring last week with the release of their “ People’s Budget”. This is the...
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Warner Amendment Would Restore Program Integrity Funding
The Senate is undergoing vote-a-rama, an annual event where the Senate considers hundreds of amendments before voting on the budget resolution. Of the...
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Senate Amends Budget Resolution in Committee
While considering the FY 2016 budget, the Senate Budget Committee voted on about 50 amendments before passing the budget resolution on a party line 12...