Dynamic Scoring

If Republicans win a majority in the U.S. Senate this November, they may push to have the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on...

This blog has corrected the amount of Medicare savings in the budget. It previously said $50 billion, but that included the cost of repealing the...

Update: The House passed the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act by a 224-182 vote. Also, CBO posted a letter to Chairman Paul Ryan examining the feasibility of...

A new feature of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) FY 2015 budget is assumption of a "fiscal dividend," which reflects the economic...

Along with its analysis of the conventional revenue impacts ( summarized here by CRFB), the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) analyzed the potential...

Earlier today, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the Tax Reform Act of 2014, which would drastically restructure the U.S. tax...

CBO's recent budgetary and economic analyses of the Senate immigration bill have been making waves in the political sphere as lawmakers rush to...

As lawmakers gear up to debate immigration reform in the weeks and months ahead, it will likely coincide with the ongoing budget debate in Washington...

Among the many amendments that were voted on to the Senate budget resolution, one caught the eye of POLITICO: Sen. Rob Portman's (R-OH) amendment to...

The use of dynamic scoring is one of the most contested issues in the budget world. We highlighted the pros and cons of using it and the issues...

What is dynamic scoring? How are legislative proposals currently scored? CRFB's latest policy paper details the process and methods that the...

CRFB board member Rudolph Penner recently co-authored a paper that is essentially a retrospective on the 2011 deficit debate. He and Urban Institute...