Budget Process
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The Prevent Government Shutdowns Act Will Not Cost $12.6 Trillion
Read moreThe Prevent Government Shutdowns Act (PGSA) would establish an automatic continuing resolution (auto-CR) to prevent shutdowns and would put into place...
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Enzi's Proposals Would Improve the Budget Process
Read moreSenate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has developed a series of draft budget process reforms. As we’ve explained before, the current...
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Representatives Rice, Barr Introduce Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution
Read moreLast week, Representatives Kathleen Rice (D-NY) and Andy Barr (R-KY) introduced a bipartisan bill to make it harder for Congress to ignore the...
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Congress Should Move Forward on Budget Process Reform
Read moreFor Immediate Release Last week, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) released a series of discussion drafts with proposals to reform the...
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Budget Bill Caps Shameful Period of Fiscal Recklessness
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Senate passed a budget agreement Thursday to suspend the debt ceiling and raise discretionary spending caps for two years...
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Budget Deal May Be Worst in History
Read moreFor Immediate Release According to press reports, Congress and the President are close to a deal that would lift discretionary spending caps by $320...
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Maya MacGuineas: No budget. On the brink of default. It's a hell of a way to run a country.
Read moreMaya 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...
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Budget Deal Should Be Paid For
Read moreFor Immediate Release Congressional leaders and the White House are in talks to raise the debt ceiling and statutory budget caps before the August...
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David Walker: It is time to confront fiscal failure
Read moreDavid Walker is a former Comptroller General of the United States (head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office) and past board member of the...
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Appropriations 101
Read moreThis paper has been updated here . What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by Congress about how the federal government...
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Hearing Recap: Fixing a Broken Budget and Spending Process – Perspectives of Two Former Chairmen
Read moreThe Senate Budget Committee began a series of hearings on reforming the budget process on May 15. The first hearing, “ Fixing a Broken Budget and...
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Kent Conrad's Testimony on the Broken Budget Process
Read moreOn May 14, 2019, former Senate Budget Committee Chairman and Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget board member Kent Conrad (D-ND) testified...