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Senators Kirk and Manchin Offer "Go Big" Proposal
Today, Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) called for a "Sense of the Senate" resolution pushing for Congress to "Go Big" on deficit...
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Moment of Truth Project Highlights Reforms to Health Care Cost-Sharing and Federal Retirement
With the deadline for the Super Committee to come to an agreement nearly here, the Moment of Truth Project, a project of CRFB, has released two new...
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MY View: Maya MacGuineas November 2011
CRFB president Maya MacGuineas just wrote an essay featured in the Ripon Forum. She writes that the debate over whether the "debt crisis" or the "jobs...
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Super Committee Can Keep "Go Big" Momentum Going by Calling for Another Stage
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and many others have called on the Super Committee to find two or three times its mandated $1.5...
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A Final Bipartisan, Bicameral Push to Go Big
Today at 10:30 am ET, Republican and Democratic lawmakers from both the House and the Senate will be holding a press conference pushing Go Big in a...
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Lawmakers Reach Across the Aisle, and Houses, to Support Go Big
A group of legislators today staged a rare bipartisan, bicameral show of strength to support the Super Committee and encourage it to “ Go Big.” At a...
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Mark Zandi Joins Announcement Effect Club
Yesterday, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi penned an article in Politico about the various possible outcomes of the looming Super...
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My View: Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles
Today in the Washington Post, Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs and CRFB Board Members Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles wrote an op-ed titled, "The Super...
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Op-Ed: Debt Reduction Done Right: An Economic Growth Strategy That Will Work
Ripon Forum | November 16, 2011 The coming months will be filled with arguments over whether we as a nation should be focusing on fixing the jobs...
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Roll Call Highlights CRFB's Commitment to a Bipartisan Solution
It's clear that any solution to control our rising debt will have to be bipartisan, not only to enact savings put to see them through and ensure they...