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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: Taking off on Ben Bernanke's testimony before Congress last week...
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‘Line’ Items: Offsets and Coming to a Resolution on the Budget
Congress Extends Unemployment Benefits, Along With the Deficit – Last week Congress extended expanded unemployment benefits, COBRA subsidies, the...
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"Deficit Spending: Trouble on the Horizon?
Congress this week demonstrated once again that members aren’t yet willing to embrace the new era of fiscal responsibility that was supposed to start...
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‘Line’ Items: Recess Over, Deadlines Loom
They’re Back – Congress returns from its spring recess this week. The Senate is back in session today and the first order of business is a cloture...
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Coburn, Baby, Burn
The Hill reports that Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has promised to block all future spending bills that are not fully “paid for.” He currently is leading...
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The Power of Saying 'No'
In today's New York Times, David Leonhardt argues that deep down, Americans tend to view more health care as better care, but that in our quest for...
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The Doc Fix Is A Leaky Roof?
CRFB received a comment on The Bottom Line the other day, responding to our use of a leaky roof analogy for how health care reform failed to address...
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‘Line’ Items: Opening Day Edition
If they Don’t Win It’s the Same – Opening Day presaged much of the same for Washington as the home team was clobbered. The White House hopes that the...
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CRFB Launches A Featured Charts Page!
CRFB would like to introduce our " Featured Charts" page where we will highlight important fiscal, economic, health care, and entitlement projection...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times believed that the suits made by various state...
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‘Line’ Items: Hoops, Blossoms and Canaries
Health Care Makes it Through the Final Hoops – Congress completed work last week on the reconciliation package, which included fixes to the health...
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Ping Pong on Reconciliation: Senate Votes to Pass Reconciliation Measure, House Must Now Vote Again
The Senate passed the reconciliation bill on health care bill reform (that includes student loan provisions) this afternoon by a vote of 56 to 43...