Budget Process
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Setting the Benchmark: Reforms to Budget Baseline Rules
Read moreBudget baselines are among the most important – but widely misunderstood – elements of budgeting and policymaking. The budgetary impact of a given...
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Renacci, Kilmer, and Bipartisan Working Group Propose Bill Highlighting the “Fiscal State of the Nation”
Read moreHoping to inspire a fiscal “wake-up call” in the new session of Congress, Representatives Jim Renacci (R-OH), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), and 40 other...
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Congressman Renacci Introduces “Budget Enforcement Awareness Resolution”
Read moreLast month, Representative Jim Renacci (R-OH) introduced the “ Budget Enforcement Awareness Resolution” in order to “restore integrity to budget...
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A Long-Term Budget for Entitlements and Required Revenues
Read moreby Stuart Butler and Maya MacGuineas This paper represents a joint project of the Brookings Institution and Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
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Budget Reconciliation Shouldn't Add to Deficit
Read moreSenator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has filed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2017 budget resolution being considered in the Senate that would restore the...
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Event Recap: Gene Steuerle Explains How the Budget Offices Can Reframe Our Long-Term Budget Problems
Read moreAt the Savings and Retirement Foundation’s December meeting, Gene Steuerle, Urban Institute Fellow and CRFB Board Member, presented his recent paper,...
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Event Recap: Chairman Price Releases Budget Process Agenda
Read moreHouse Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) outlined his recommendations for budget process reforms last week during a keynote lecture at an...
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Reconciliation 101
Read moreNote: We have updated this paper, please see our Updated Reconciliation 101. What is reconciliation? Reconciliation is a special legislative process...
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Debt Limit Deadline: March 16, 2017 – Time for Reform?
Read moreOne of the first legislative deadlines President-elect Donald Trump and the 115th Congress will face is the need to raise the debt limit. The budget...
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Senator Perdue Outlines Ideas for Budget Process Reform
Read moreAfter leading a colloquy on the Senate floor regarding problems with the budget process, Senator David Perdue (R-GA) outlined his plans for budget...
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Senator Dan Coats Introduces Bill To Establish Fiscal Commission
Read moreSenator Dan Coats (R-IN) introduced the ‘‘Mandatory Bureaucratic Realignment and Consolidation Commission Act of 2016’’ (or the ‘‘Mandatory BRACC Act’...
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Senator David Perdue Advocates For New Budget Process Reforms
Read moreAs Congress rushed to pass a temporary continuing resolution to keep the government operating when the fiscal year begins on Saturday, a group of...