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Alan Simpson: Forget Bipartisanship – We Need Generationship
Alan Simpson, one of the chairs of the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, co-wrote an op...
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Maya MacGuineas: Will Congress Listen to the Military on Pay?
Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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MY VIEW: Joshua Gordon and Jason Peuquet
Jason Peuquet, research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, has an op-ed with Joshua Gordon of the Concord Coalition in the San...
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Kent Conrad: In Camp's Camp--Praising the Effort on Tax Reform
Kent Conrad, former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, wrote a commentary in Roll Call . It is reposted here. The courage to tackle tough...
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Gene Steuerle: A Camp-ground for Tax Reformers
Gene Steuerle, Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, wrote a post on the Tax Policy Center's blog, TaxVox . It is...
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Judd Gregg: Some Light at the End of the Tunnel
Judd Gregg, former chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, wrote an op-ed in The Hill today. It is reposted here. After much ado and little done in...
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Maya MacGuineas: Helping the Budget $150 Billion at a Time
Congress entered 2013 with a great deal on its plate, but it still has some work left to do. Our budget problems are still far from solved and ideally...
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MY VIEW: Ed Lorenzen January 2014
Over the past few months, the subject of Social Security has been hotly debated, centering Recently, Jane White authored an article in the Huffington...
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William Hoagland: The Real Value of the Budget Deal
It has been one week since Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced they had reached a bipartisan budget agreement, which is now...
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MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson December 2013
The budget agreement reached by the Senate and the House last week both has some good elements and bad elements. In particular, it replaces some of...
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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas December 2013
While we continue to hope for a substantial budget deal that would address our long-term fiscal problems, it looks like a smaller deal is more likely...
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MY VIEW: David Walker December 2013
It's just a little over a week before the budget conference committee is supposed to present its recommendations to Congress. Former U.S. Comptroller...