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Military Retirement Needs Reform
Military pensions for high-ranking officers are going up significantly, according to a USA Today article. Due to a change in the Defense Authorization...
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Panetta Presents New Defense Budget
Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta fleshed out the widely-anticipated FY 2013 defense budget. The budget showed to some extent how the Obama...
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A Gimmick on the Rise
Update: The American College of Physicians has also called for eliminating the SGR and the sequester and partially paying for them with war savings...
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Prelude to a Trigger
Both CBO and OMB in the last week released sequestration reports, technical reports that detail whether the government is adhering to discretionary...
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‘Line’ Items: Playoff Edition
Playoffs in Full Swing – The Packers packed it in; the Broncos got busted; the Saints went marching out; and Houston had a problem as the NFL Playoffs...
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Defense Cuts in the Flesh, Pt. 2
As we mentioned on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was scheduled to roll out the strategic outline for the Pentagon's future. Earlier today...
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Defense Cuts in the Flesh
According to today's New York Times, a report from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will be revealed this week on how the Pentagon will meet its...
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We Need a War Spending Cap
One of the most popular budget gimmicks in Washington right now is the war savings gimmick. Because CBO assumes that discretionary spending grows with...
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13th and 14th Plans Added to Super Committee Tracker
Two more recent recommendations have been added to our Super Committee submissions tracker, dealing with defense and health care. The first comes from...
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Two Letters to the Super Committee on Defense and Medicare
Two more submissions have recently been made to the Super Committee, adding to what is becoming an interesting list of ideas for them to draw...
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What Congress Needs to Do in the Next Two Weeks
Congress has a long checklist of things it has to do by the end of September. On Tuesday, it informally crossed one thing off when the House passed a...
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Wartime Contracting Commission Finds Significant Waste in War Spending
The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, created by Congress in 2008, has issued its final report, showing that there has been...