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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...
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MY VIEW: Laura Tyson December 2013
CRFB board member Laura Tyson and Berkeley Research Group directors Eric Drabkin and Ken Serwin wrote in Project Syndicate in favor of Baucus's...
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MY VIEW: Alice Rivlin and Pete Domenici
With Congress is in recess, it's likely we won't see a deal this week, but the December 13th deadline for the budget conference committee is fast...
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My View: Judd Gregg November 2013
Though the government shutdown ended a little over a month ago, its effects still linger on. In an editorial published today in The Hill, former...
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Kent Conrad and Judd Gregg: With Order Restored, Let’s Act
The budget conference committee is holding its second hearing this morning as the conferees continue to try and work out a compromise between the...
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Jim Nussle: For Budget Conference, Start With The Pizza
Today was the first meeting of the budget conference committee negotiating over this year's discretionary spending levels. Although the first meeting...
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MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson October 2013
The budget conference committee will begin to meet in full shortly, when the conferees will begin to look for a compromise between the Senate and...