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You Say You Want a Resolution
The Senate Budget Committee yesterday approved of a fiscal year 2011 budget proposal by a largely party line 12-10 vote, setting up a heated floor...
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Chairman's Mark Reduces Deficit More Than President's Budget
Yesterday the Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) released some highlights of his FY2011 budget blueprint, or Chairman's Mark...
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Senator Kent Conrad Joins the Announcement Effect Club
From the Chairman's Mark of the FY2011 Senate Budget Resolution (emphasis added): Certainly, the need to return to fiscal discipline and the costs of...
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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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A Big VAT of Opposition in Congress
Yesterday the Senate voted overwhelmingly, 85-13, to approve a non-binding “sense of the Senate” resolution sponsored by Senator John McCain (R-AZ)...
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Between the ‘Lines’: A Midweek Update
Up-Hill Battle for the Budget – Democratic leaders in Congress are floating the possibility that there will be no budget resolution this year, citing...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The Wall Street Journal noted the lessons that the United States...
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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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‘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...