Budget Process
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Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Fiscal Commission Bill
Read moreSenators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced legislation that would create a bipartisan National...
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The Need for Fiscal Goals
Read moreThe House Budget Committee held a hearing on Wednesday (June 15, 2016) on budget process reform and the need for fiscal goals. CRFB president Maya...
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Maya MacGuineas's Testimony on Setting a Fiscal Goal
Read moreOn June 15, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the House Budget Committee on "Setting a Fiscal Goal...
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A Nation Without a Budget: Statement by Maya MacGuineas
Read moreOnce again, we are a nation without a budget. Congress has blown past its own deadline for passing a budget and is now working on appropriations bills...
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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: This paper has been updated here . What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by Congress about how the federal...
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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...