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Bernanke Once Again Warns Congress on the Fiscal Cliff
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addressed Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday and the House Finance Committee yesterday with more warnings about...
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Parties Discuss Sequester Working Groups
A few members of Congress are now proposing House-Senate working groups to try and negotiate a compromise that would avoid the squester. From The Hill...
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Domenici and Rivlin Testify to Senate Finance Committee
Former Director of the CBO Alice Rivlin and Former Sen. Pete Domenici testified today to the Senate Finance Committee on the long-term debt problem...
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Senators Meet To Discuss Fiscal Cliff
Earlier this week, about a third of the Senate met to open a bipartisan discussion about comprehensive fiscal reform and the impending fiscal cliff...
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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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Sen. Toomey Offers A Budget Resolution
One day after Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) released a budget resolution based on the Fiscal Commission plan, another Budget...
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Sen. Conrad Proposes Fiscal Commission Budget
At a press conference today, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) put forward a budget resolution that his Committee will be marking up...
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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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Another Proposal to Extend the Payroll Tax Cut and Other Policies
Finding a way to extend the payroll tax cut, along with the many other expiring provisions this year, continues to be a dominating issue for Congress...
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Senate Working to Extend Payroll Tax Cut
Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unveiled another proposal for how to both extend and expand the payroll tax cuts and pay for them...
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‘Go Big’ Goes On
There has been lots of attention recently on the ‘ Go Big’ campaign and what comes next. The latest comes from a National Journal article that begins...
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Deja Vu All Over Again: Another Busy December
News flash: Congress has a huge checklist to take care of. Many expiring tax provisions need to be dealt with, along with other temporary policies and...