Budget Process

This week, Representatives John Carney (D-DE) and Jim Renacci (R-OH) introduced a bipartisan bill to improve the budget process. The Budget Integrity...

In our recently released plan, The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending, we propose a variety of measures to support the Highway Trust Fund (HTF)...

During the consideration of the FY 2016 budget, we continually wrote about the budget process provisions in the major budget resolutions as well as...

With the budget conference complete, it is now up to each chamber of Congress to pass the FY 2016 concurrent budget resolution. We've already written...

Congress sped through this year's second and third " Fiscal Speed Bumps" in March, ignoring the return of the statutory debt limit (though the hard...

Big economic policy news came last week when lawmakers announced a bipartisan agreement (H.R. 1890) to revive Trade Promotion Authority in order to...

With the House and Senate preparing to go to conference to work out the differences between their budget resolutions, we published a paper Tuesday...

The House and Senate will soon appoint a formal conference committee to iron out differences between their two budgets, even though press reports...

We have described at length the fiscal irresponsibility of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) reform bill (H.R. 2) working its way through Congress --...

There's a simple way to make the $141 billion House-passed Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) bill more fiscally responsible: don't exempt it from...