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Today, the Office of Management and Budget released its Mid-Session Review, revised estimates of the President's 2014 budget incorporating legislative...

The lead up to July 4th brought an exciting development in fiscal policy discussions: a commitment from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus...

In a Brookings Institution piece, CRFB board member and former Representative Bill Frenzel (R-MN) addressed the next biggest item emerging on the...

Former CBO director and CRFB board member Alice Rivlin was interviewed by the Fiscal Times Sunday on the state of our budget and economy. Rivlin...

Yesterday, the Obama administration announced the one-year delay of a key provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires coverage reporting and...

Both the Social Security Chief Actuary and the CBO have already weighed in on the Senate's immigration reform bill, showing that it would give a short...

As the tax reform debate begins to heat up again, a new report released by the General Accountability Office (GAO) contributes some telling...

The appropriations process is usually arduous, but this year may be even more so. The largest disagreement between the Senate and House, which is...

CRFB board member and former Pennsylvania Congressman William H. Gray III passed away Monday in London, England. Rev. Gray was 71 years old. Rev. Gray...

In 2010 and 2011, the federal government "spent" nearly $50 billion in revenue on energy tax expenditures. But are these provisions actually achieving...

Among developed countries the US is unique in taxes in a number of different ways. One claim to fame is the fact that the U.S. now has the highest...

Today in an opinion piece in The Washington Post and in a report from Third Way, Jon Cowan and Jim Kessler present an intriguing argument tackling...