Budget Process and Rules

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has developed a series of draft budget process reforms. As we’ve explained before, the current...

Last week, Representatives Kathleen Rice (D-NY) and Andy Barr (R-KY) introduced a bipartisan bill to make it harder for Congress to ignore the...

A group of ten new Democratic members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to House committee chairs on Wednesday urging them to better...

David Walker is a former Comptroller General of the United States (head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office) and past board member of the...

The Senate Budget Committee began a series of hearings on reforming the budget process on May 15. The first hearing, “ Fixing a Broken Budget and...

Two former Senate Budget chairmen are testifying today before the Senate Budget Committee on the failures of the current budget process and the...

Last year was a historically bad year for the Congressional budget process. Since 1976, it was the first time that neither the Senate or House voted...

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...

Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), along with Senators Lankford (R-OK) and Perdue (R-GA), today introduced the "No Budget, No Recess" Act." The legislation...

House Democrats are proposing a package of rules to govern the House of Representatives in the 116th Congress. The package contains many changes from...

November 30 Note: The Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform was unable to advance its legislation out of committee on a...