Budget Process and Rules
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Senator Murray Brings Citizens Into Budget Process
Read moreToday, Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) unveiled a new feature on her Committee's website called MyBudget, which allows constituents...
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"Fixing the Debt: Reforming the Tax Code and Federal Health Spending" Recap
Read moreYesterday, the Fix the Debt Campaign had a event with two roundtables bringing together many health policy and tax experts from across the political...
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Fiscal Transparency in the U.S. and Abroad
Read moreYesterday in a blog post, IMF's Fiscal Affairs Director Carlo Cottarelli stressed the need for fiscal transparency on the part of governments around...
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Bipartisan Policy Center Releases a "Framework for a Grand Bargain"
Read moreWith Congress in recess until after the elections, a plan to replace the fiscal cliff with a comprehensive debt deal will have to get done during the...
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Revisiting Dynamic Scoring
Read moreThe use of dynamic scoring is one of the most contested issues in the budget world. We highlighted the pros and cons of using it and the issues...
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The True Cost of Federal Credit Programs?
Read moreIn a new report released yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office looked at the difference in accounting methods used to score federal credit...
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Dynamic Scoring Explained
Read moreWhat is dynamic scoring? How are legislative proposals currently scored? CRFB's latest policy paper details the process and methods that the...
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Fixing Medicare Double-Counting
Read moreDonald Marron, who recently wrote a blog post on how budget limits are treated in Congressional rules, wrote a piece today detailing how Medicare Part...
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Double Counting and Medicare Part A
Read moreLast month, Social Security and Medicare Trustee Chuck Blahous sparked a controversy by saying that the Affordable Care Act would add to the deficit...
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Line Items: Tax Edition
Read moreTax Reform Cometh…Eventually – Today is Tax Day, when federal tax returns are due. Procrastinators have DC Emancipation Day, a holiday in the District...
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The 2013 Budget Process Moves Forward...Sort Of
Read moreThe House Republican budget resolution included reconciliation instructions to six committees to find $261 billion in savings over ten years intended...
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Line Items: Bloom and Gloom Edition
Read moreBloom and Gloom – Washington’s famous Cherry Blossoms bloomed just ahead of the festival in their honor, and most promptly disappeared due to stormy...