Budget Process

With the debt ceiling projected to come back in play sometime in December or January, it is helpful to be reminded of the cost of the last debt...

In a new report released yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office looked at the difference in accounting methods used to score federal credit...

What is dynamic scoring? How are legislative proposals currently scored? CRFB's latest policy paper details the process and methods that the...

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...