Budget Process
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Two Months, Four Fiscal Speed Bumps to Deal With
Read moreWe are coming down the home stretch of calendar year 2015, with only a little more than two months left. Lawmakers will have to get to work as they...
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Debt Limit Coming Nov. 5 - Time for Reform?
Read moreYesterday evening, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew indicated that the extraordinary measures Treasury is using to avoid breaching the debt limit will run...
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Senate Funding Bill Would Rely on OCO Gimmick
Read moreThe Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this week posted a draft bill that would extend government funding until December 11 and avert a...
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Sequester Offset Solutions (SOS) Plan
Read moreDownload a 1-page summary of the plan. Update 9/16/2015: The appendix was corrected to accurately describe the proposed change to federal employee...
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Is a Balanced Budget Amendment All We Need to Fix the Debt?
Read moreMany candidates will suggest some form of a balanced budget amendment (BBA). Even in the best case, such an amendment is a supplement rather than a...
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GAO: 2013 Debt Limit Showdown Shows Need to Consider Reform
Read moreLast week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report to Congress on the debt limit, showing that the failure to raise the debt...
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8 Great Ways To Grapple With Gimmicks
Read moreIn recent years, lawmakers have frequently used budget gimmicks to get around rules designed to maintain budgetary discipline -- if they pay attention...
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Four Gimmicks to Watch Out For
Read moreAs Congress begins the appropriations process, maneuvers through this year’s Fiscal Speed Bumps, and looks to pay for the costs of new legislation...
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Congressional Double-Take on Revenue
Read moreThe Congressional budget resolution proposes to bring the budget into balance by reducing spending $5.3 trillion over the next decade while keeping...
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Reps. Carney and Renacci Release Bill Improving Budget Process
Read moreThis week, Representatives John Carney (D-DE) and Jim Renacci (R-OH) introduced a bipartisan bill to improve the budget process. The Budget Integrity...
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Repairing How the Budget Treats the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreIn our recently released plan, The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending, we propose a variety of measures to support the Highway Trust Fund (HTF)...