Budgets & Projections

Earlier today, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan released his update Roadmap for America's Future (and a nifty Website to go with it). Under this...

A proposal to form a bipartisan commission to address the nation’s mounting long-term debt just fell short of the 60 votes needed for approval in the...

The federal deficit in FY10 is expected to be $1.35 billion--a slight drop from the $1.41 trillion in FY09--but still the second largest in our nation...

Senate vote on Baucus amendment (97-0 vote to exempt changes to Social Security from a statutory budget commission from fast-track vote in Congress).

Today, we released our Analysis of CBO’s January 2010 Baseline, which discusses the new CBO baseline in detail, including the new deficit and debt...

The Senate will vote this week on key fiscal measures as it attempts to increase the nation’s debt ceiling. The debt limit is expected to be reached...

Here is the statement: The serious fiscal situation that our country faces reflects not only the severe economic downturn we inherited, but also years...

As the Senate continues its consideration of the debt ceiling today, it will consider at least three important budgetary amendments - a deficit...

Senior congressional Democrats late Tuesday met with the White House to attempt to hammer out a deal that would create a fiscal commission and a...

Today, the AARP sent an email to its members encouraging them not to support the Conrad-Gregg commission. A coalition of conservative anti-tax groups...