Budgets & Projections

The Senate is undergoing vote-a-rama, an annual event where the Senate considers hundreds of amendments before voting on the budget resolution. Of the...

The House Ways & Means Committee on Wednesday approved the “Death Tax Repeal Act of 2015,” which would permanently repeal the estate tax that applies...

While considering the FY 2016 budget, the Senate Budget Committee voted on about 50 amendments before passing the budget resolution on a party line 12...

Earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the Medicare Sustaintable Growth Rate (SGR) reform bill under consideration...

Although the numbers in the budget resolution draw a lot of attention, one of the most impactful parts of the resolution deals with budget process...

In order to resolve disagreement between defense hawks and fiscal hawks, the House will vote on two competing budgets with different approaches to...

House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) yesterday released the House Democratic alternative budget, which provides similar...

There was a lot of discussion in the run-up to the release of the Senate budget about disputes within the Republican caucus over defense spending. The...

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has released his FY 2016 budget resolution, which prescribes $5.1 trillion of spending cuts to reach...

One of the most important functions of budget resolutions is to set the spending limits for the coming fiscal year. At first glance, the House budget...