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SequesterWatch: Dueling Replacement Alternatives Emerge in the House
Update: The House has passed the reconciliation and replacement bills by a 218-199 vote. We have already talked about the House reconciliation bills...
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How Is the House Replacing the Sequester?
Update: CBO has posted scores for the Energy and Commerce and Oversight bills. They would save $113 billion and $83.3 billion, respectively, over ten...
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Comparing the House and Senate Agriculture Changes
Recently, both the House and Senate proposed cuts to the Department of Agriculture. Though the proposals are fairly similar in magnitude, they achieve...
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The 2013 Budget Process Moves Forward...Sort Of
The House Republican budget resolution included reconciliation instructions to six committees to find $261 billion in savings over ten years intended...
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Budget Process Reforms in the Ryan Budget
The FY 2013 House Republican budget resolution, which has now been passed by the Budget Committee 19-18, contains a number of sweeping changes to the...
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Ryan Reprise: House Budget Committee Chairman Releases New Budget
This morning, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) presented the House Republican budget, one that is similar to last year's budget...
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Line Items: Primary Edition
Deficit Secondary in Primary – The presidential primary campaign hits a key point this week as "Super Tuesday" contests in several states may go a...
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‘Line’ Items: Budget Day Edition
Big Day – Today is the big day in budget world. The White House released its fiscal year 2013 budget request. As you can imagine, CRFB has been busy...
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House Passes Modified Line Item Veto
Expedited rescission authority, a cousin of the line-item veto, has been considered countless times by Congress since the line item veto was declared...
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'Line' Items: Baseline Edition
Baseline Instinct – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday released its much-awaited 2012 Budget and Economic Outlook. According to CBO, if...
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'Line' Items: Super Bowl Edition
Super Not So Duper – The word “super” has lost its luster lately. The failure of the Super Committee and the need for a super majority in the Senate...
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House Budget Committee Advances Process Reform Proposals
As we mentioned in our press release earlier this week, the House Budget Committee has been working on legislation to reform the current budget...