Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
More on the President's FY 2010 Budget Blueprint
Although CRFB commends the President for having a specific fiscal goal and for honestly budgeting for expected costs, several items and trends in the...
A First Look at the President's FY 2010 Budget Blueprint
Today, the White House released an outline of the FY2010 Budget. The President’s budget has a specific fiscal goal, accounts for policies omitted by...