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FY 2012 Appropriations Update: The House Is in Motion
Attempting not to replicate last year's/this year's FY 2011 appropriations debacle, the House is moving the FY 2012 process in a relatively timely...
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Check Out WaPo's Interactive Graphic
The Washington Post has a great interactive graphic up on their website that allows you to compare several major fiscal plans -- and it's based on...
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OMB Attacks Improper Payments Again
We talked a lot last year about OMB efforts to improve government efficiency, culminating in the Improper Payment Elimination and Recovery Act in July...
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‘Line’ Items: Dark Horse Edition
Not Rounding the Bend Yet – Like the Triple Crown field, the fiscal policy landscape is muddled with several solutions vying to break out from the...
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CRFB Identifies $1 Trillion-Plus in Common-Ground Savings
In a release today, CRFB highlighted the overlapping policies between the most prominent fiscal plans, identifying over $1 trillion in commonalities...
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Senate Republicans Introduce Medicaid Block Grant Legislation
Yesterday, Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK), Richard Burr (R-NC), and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) released a proposal to reform the Medicaid program. Their...
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Secretary Geithner on Our Fiscal Challenges
Earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner gave a speech about the unsustainability of our country's current fiscal path. Speaking at the...
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Spotlight on the States: Ohio
Taking a break from all the recent developments in the budget and fiscal policy world, we take a quick turn to our Spotlight on the States blog series...
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A Few Interesting Reports from CBO
In the past few days, CBO has released a few documents that might be of interest to budget wonks. The first is a further analysis of the final FY 2011...
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Averting a Fiscal Crisis
CRFB has compiled a brief background on the scope of our nation's fiscal challenges and the drivers of our debt and deficits, while outlining some of...
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Trustees Report Strengthens Case for Retirement Age Increase
Last week, several bloggers, commentators, and columnists went after Al Simpson for talking about increases in life expectancy at birth (since this...