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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The Chicago Tribune noted that for all the attention paid to bank...
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‘Line’ Items: Deeming, Dreaming, Votes and Quotes
Little Resolve for Budget Resolution – Leaders in the House have yet to make a final decision on moving forward with a FY2011 budget resolution. But...
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Bills Bills Bills: Extenders and Supplementals
Next week, House Democrats intend to introduce a package of aid to states, extended unemployement benefits, and tax break extensions. This "must-pass"...
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Pearlstein Comes Out with His Own Fiscal Plan
Today in the Washington Post, Steven Pearlstein took the " Deficit Challenge", proposing his own plan on how to reduce future deficits through a...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The Chicago Tribune criticized both parties for reckless spending...
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Bill of Extenders and Tax Breaks May Include Doc Fix
Policymakers will soon be focusing on passing a new package of extenders and tax breaks that – at a potential cost of around $200 billion over ten...
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Rethinking TRICARE Benefits
Admiral Roughead (Navy), General Conway, (Marine Corps) and Admiral Allen (Coast Guard) all took the spending challenge today, arguing that retired...
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CAP Takes the Spending Challenge
The Center for American Progress recently discussed what it would take to meet the President's fiscal goal of a primary balance in 2015, or finding...
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Does the Health Care Bill Cost More Than We Thought?
Last week the Office of the Medicare Chief Actuary came out with their " Estimated Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," as...
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'It May Be a Predictable Crisis But It's Not a Necessary One'
Yesterday the Peterson Foundation hosted the Fiscal Summit: America's Crisis and a Way Forward, convening an all-star line-up of fiscal, economic, and...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The Wall Street Journal criticized plans by Democrats to introduce...
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More on Leaky Roofs
This week, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released a short piece disputing the claim that the cost of the so-called “Doc-Fix” –...