Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
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Analysis of the President's FY2010 Budget
Recently, the White House released its comprehensive FY2010 budget request, including detailed proposals for each agency, along with “Analytical...
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Staff Working Paper #6: Resource Allocation
Are the rules of thumb and categories we have explicitly and implicitly established in our budget process for resource allocation appropriate and...
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Staff Working Paper #5: Content of the Budget Resolution
This paper reviews the classes of information included in the budget resolution. It then examines potential changes to the contents in an attempt to...
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Staff Working Paper #4: Joint vs. Concurrent Budget Resolution
This paper lays out a model for converting the concurrent budget resolution into a joint resolution. It includes a description of the model and a...
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Op-Ed: Fiscal Disorder - The Broken Budget Process and the Dire Need for Reform
Ripon Forum | April 21, 2009 This past February, four months after the beginning of the fiscal year, Congress passed the last bill needed to fund the...
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Staff Working Paper #3: Fiscal and Economic Goals and the Budget Resolution
The budget resolution should prompt debate about the implications of budgetary choices and aggregate totals for fiscal and economic policy, both near-...
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Staff Working Paper #2: The Budget Process
How could the current budgetary decision-making process be improved? This paper looks at the current process and how the concurrent budget resolution...
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Comparing the FY2010 Budget Resolutions
Last week, the Budget Committees in both the House and Senate reported out their respective versions of the Budget Resolution, to be considered on the...
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CBO's Analysis of the President's FY 2010 Budget Blueprint
Last week, the CBO released its Preliminary Analysis of The President’s Budget, projecting a significantly worse fiscal situation than the...