Budget Process

Congressman Jim Renacci (R-OH) introduced the The Federal Financial Statement Transparency Act of 2014 today. This legislation would make major...

Appropriations season is in full swing. The House has already passed the Legislative Branch and Military Construction-Veterans Affairs bills, while...

The Senate is moving forward with tax extenders legislation, renewing a variety of breaks that expired at the end of last year for research, small...

We have always have been proponents of paying for the costs of policies such as the tax extenders and doc fixes, since doing so would make a...

The White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) yesterday in opposition to the extension and expansion of the Research &...

This week, Congress will continue to deliberate if and how to continue the “ tax extenders” which expired at the end of 2013. In doing so, both the...

Congressman Reid Ribble (R-WI) and Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI) introduced the Long-Term Studies of Comprehensive Outcomes and Returns for the...

This blog has corrected the amount of Medicare savings in the budget. It previously said $50 billion, but that included the cost of repealing the...

Update: The House passed the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act by a 224-182 vote. Also, CBO posted a letter to Chairman Paul Ryan examining the feasibility of...

A new feature of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) FY 2015 budget is assumption of a "fiscal dividend," which reflects the economic...

Along with its analysis of the conventional revenue impacts ( summarized here by CRFB), the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) analyzed the potential...

In a new and informative series on Reforming the Budget, the Brookings Institution looked at challenges facing the budget process and proposed...