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For about a week now, we've been telling critics of the Co-Chairs' Plan to throw ideas, not stones. So, good for Jan Schakowsky. Rep. Schakowsky (D-IL...

The drumbeat for action to reduce our long-term debt continues. Today the Debt Reduction Task Force of the Bipartisan Policy Center issued its...

CRFB co-chair Bill Frenzel says "three cheers for Bowles and Simpson" as he and fellow Brookings experts talk about reducing the federal budget...

Earmarks have long been a favorite bogeyman here in D.C. – as examples of wasteful government spending and back-door deal making. The recent election...

Most of the attention in the debate to extend the 2001/2003 tax cuts has centered around the income tax, but a closer inspection of the provisions...

CRFB board member Gene Steuerle has a piece in the Ripon Forum on the need for deficit reduction and budget process reform. He mentions the new...

Yesterday, in the pages of the New York Times, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas joined 15 other experts in proposing how one might begin to cut the...

In her latest commentary on CNN Money, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas challenges critics of the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan and offers ideas...

Hip, Hip, Hooray! The Chairmen of the President’s Deficit Reduction Commission finally have shed some light on the kinds of choices that will be...

The New York Times released their own " budget puzzle" over the weekend, allowing users to try to eliminate the primary deficit (the deficit excluding...

Congress returns this week for a lame-duck session during which members will face a huge mess—providing money to keep the lights on in the federal...

We at CRFB have had our morning coffee and are trying to find ways to make the Fiscal Commission’s co-chair proposal better. CRFB president Maya...