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House and Senate Move Forward on Appropriations
Read moreThis year's deadline has already passed without a budget resolution coming from either chamber, but the appropriations season is still moving forward...
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House Budget Confirms It Takes $8 Trillion to Balance the Budget
Read moreThe Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 House budget resolution that advanced out of the House Budget Committee last week keeps up the recent tradition of targeting...
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Two Committees Roll Out Mandatory Savings Package
Read moreLast week, two House Committees, Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce, released a package of bills that would reduce mandatory spending. The bills...
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The Federal Reserve Budget Gimmick In The House Transportation Bill
Read moreThe transportation bill that the House passed last week contains a budget gimmick worth almost $60 billion (Wall Street Journal Paywall). The...
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Rigell Releases Sequester Replacement Plan
Read moreCongressman Scott Rigell (R-VA) released a plan today we might like even better than our own Sequester Offset Solutions (SOS) plan. Congressman Rigell...
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Medicare Premiums Take Center Stage
Read moreAdding to the list of things lawmakers want to get done before the end of the year, Congress may take up a relatively obscure Medicare issue that...
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House Reconciliation Runs Afoul of Byrd Rule
Read moreUpdate: CBO has released scores of the three reconciliation bills showing net ten-year savings of $57 billion but a deficit increase of $1 billion in...
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Unpaid-For Veterans Provisions Piggyback on Transportation Bill
Read moreBefore Congress leaves for August, they must pass a transportation bill extending highway programs and transferring additional money into the Highway...
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Becerra Introduces Bill to Combine Social Security Trust Funds
Read moreJust hours in advance of the release of Wednesday's 2015 Social Security Trustees' Report, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Ways &...
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House Transportation Plan Uses Elements that CRFB Highlighted
Read moreHere at CRFB we spend a lot of time reviewing responsible options to offset the cost of new bills and have provided many to lawmakers. So when current...
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Ways & Means Starts the Conversation on Reforming SSDI
Read moreThe House Ways & Means Committee held a hearing last week to investigate possible changes to the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program...
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Levin, Baldwin Introduce Bill to Close Carried Interest Loophole
Read moreWays and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) have introduced a bill to close a well-known tax loophole that...