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Postal Service Emerges as Offset for Highway Trust Fund
Bloomberg Businessweek reported last week that House Republicans are considering a plan that would utilize savings from U.S. Postal Service (USPS)...
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Want to Understand The Appropriations Process? This 101 Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know
Appropriations season is in full swing. The House has already passed the Legislative Branch and Military Construction-Veterans Affairs bills, while...
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Appropriators Must Stay Within Spending Caps Without Gimmicks
As the Senate Appropriations Committee makes its 302(b) allocations, divvying up funding among the 12 appropriations bills, it will have to deal with...
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Senate Finance Committee Hearing on Transportation Funding
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing May 6th titled, “ New Routes for Funding and Financing Highways and Transit.” During the hearing Senators...
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Senate to Consider Bipartisan Housing Finance Reform Bill
The push among lawmakers to reform housing finance has picked up lately, as proposals have been emerging in recent weeks. The most prominent one in...
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Discretionary Spending in Ryan's FY 2015 Budget
Much of the focus in House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget inevitably falls on the changes it it would make to mandatory spending, of...
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There They Go Again: More Timing Gimmicks Being Used as Offsets
It seems to be Gimmick Week in DC. After two of the Medicare physician payment bills offset their costs with gimmicks, the recently announced...
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How Low Could Debt Go?
We talked last week about several policies making their first appearance in the President's budget. What we didn't mention is that in addition to...
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How the President's Budget Deals with the Sequester
On Tuesday, the President released his budget, detailing his priorities for the upcoming year and beyond. Facing declining federal investment, the...
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What's New in the President's Budget?
With the release of the FY 2015 President's budget, the Obama Administration has now presented six annual budget plans (and an additional proposal to...
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Double Counting: The Tax Reform Act and the Highway Trust Fund
The Tax Reform Act of 2014, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp's (R-MI) discussion draft, is a sizeable document touching almost all parts of the...
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The Budgetary Effect of the State of the Union
While the President's 2014 State of the Union address largely eschewed talking about fiscal policy directly, it did touch on a number of proposals...