Budget Process

Donald Marron, who recently wrote a blog post on how budget limits are treated in Congressional rules, wrote a piece today detailing how Medicare Part...

Last month, Social Security and Medicare Trustee Chuck Blahous sparked a controversy by saying that the Affordable Care Act would add to the deficit...

The House Republican budget resolution included reconciliation instructions to six committees to find $261 billion in savings over ten years intended...

The FY 2013 House Republican budget resolution, which has now been passed by the Budget Committee 19-18, contains a number of sweeping changes to the...

Mad, Mad World – There’s enough madness in DC to go around. Lawmakers from opposite parties seem perpetually angry at each other, yet they are moving...

In what was surprising news to many when, yesterday, freshman Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR) announced that he would introduce legislation that would apply...

If there's anything people can agree on in Washington, it is that the current budget process is broken. Congress has not passed a budget resolution...

One of the wonkier discussions that arise inside the Washington beltway from time to time is what accounting method to use for federal credit programs...

Big Day – Today is the big day in budget world. The White House released its fiscal year 2013 budget request. As you can imagine, CRFB has been busy...

Expedited rescission authority, a cousin of the line-item veto, has been considered countless times by Congress since the line item veto was declared...

Harvard Law School professor Howell Jackson has an interesting idea in a Reuters op-ed: if fiscal issues are going to be extremely important in the...

CRFB board member Rudolph Penner recently co-authored a paper that is essentially a retrospective on the 2011 deficit debate. He and Urban Institute...