Budget Process
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House and Senate Move Forward on Appropriations
Read moreThis year's deadline has already passed without a budget resolution coming from either chamber, but the appropriations season is still moving forward...
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Updated Appropriations 101
Read moreNote: We have updated this paper, please see our Updated Appropriations 101 . What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by...
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David Perdue & Maya MacGuineas: Repairing the budget process
Read moreSenator David Perdue, the junior senator from Georgia, and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a...
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Event Recap: Fixing the Budget Process
Read moreAs part of our Better Budget Process Initiative, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget recently hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill called...
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Strengthening the Budget Resolution
Read moreOne of the key elements of the Congressional Budget Control and Impoundment Act of 1974 (Budget Act) was the provision to adopt a budget resolution...
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House Budget Attempts to Set in Motion Savings and Process Reforms
Read moreThe Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 House budget resolution released yesterday contains ambitious promises of deficit reduction to balance the budget within ten...
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Rep. Tom McClintock Proposes Changes to Improve Budget Enforcement
Read moreAs House Republicans continue to discuss the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget resolution, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) has recommended budget process...
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Pathway to a Responsible Federal Budget
Read moreToday, the independent Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) released a set of principles for the fiscal year 2017 budget resolution...
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2015’s Fiscal Follies and Reasons for Hope
Read moreIt’s the end of the year and like so many organizations, CRFB wanted to share with you our top 10 list: a look back at Congress’s 10 top fiscal...
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Peuquet Highlights Importance of Budget Debates
Read moreAs we face an end-of-the-year legislative crunch that promises to be fiscally irresponsible, former Research Director of the Committee for a...
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A Biennial Approach to Better Budgeting
Read moreBiennial budgeting was the subject of a recent Senate Budget Committee hearing, the second in a series on budget process. Testifying were Senator...
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Will Budget Negotiators Depend on OCO?
Read moreRecent press reports indicate that the ongoing budget negotiations between Congressional leaders and the White House may lean on the use of the...