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WATCH: Senate Finance Committee Hearing 'Perspectives on Deficit Reduction: Social Security'
At 10:00am today, the Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing on Social Security reform titled "Perspectives on Deficit Reduction: Social...
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Boehner to Call for Deep Spending Cuts to Offset Debt Limit Increase
According to a recent article in Politico, Speaker of the House John Boehner will call for spending cuts that are "greater than the accompanying...
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‘Line’ Items: May Flowers Edition
What Will Bloom This Month? – In April we were showered with fiscal policy developments: namely, a last-minute FY 2011 budget deal; a deluge of budget...
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Dave Walker and Bob Bixby: National Fiscal Dialogue Needed
Today, Comeback America Initiative founder and CEO Dave Walker (former U.S. comptroller general) and Concord Coalition executive director Bob Bixby...
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Between the ‘Line’s: Limits, Meetings, Triggers, and Cloture
Bumping Up on the Debt Ceiling – On Monday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner sent a letter to congressional leaders saying that his department this...
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Biden Fiscal Working Group Holds First Meeting
The bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers hand-picked by congressional leaders had its first meeting today with Vice President Joe Biden to discuss...
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CRFB Re-Estimates the Fiscal Commission's Plan
In the awesome world of budget baselines and budget options, we are graced a few times a year with updated budget projections from CBO. These updated...
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Martin Feldstein: Raise Taxes, but Not Tax Rates
An op-ed in today's New York Times by Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein says that while reducing our debt will require more revenue, that...
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White House Takes on Excess Federal Property
First, there was the taxpayer receipt. Now there is a an excess federal property map. It seems the White House is doing a good job to get graphic with...
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MY VIEW: Bill Frenzel and Charlie Stenholm
In an op-ed in The Hill today, CRFB co-chairs Bill Frenzel and Charlie Stenholm propose a fiscally responsible approach to raising the debt ceiling...
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Senate Finance Committee Discusses Enforcement Mechanisms
Since President Obama put the idea of a debt trigger in the public's mind, it has become a hot topic. Third Way recently put out a piece detailing...