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It's just a little over a week before the budget conference committee is supposed to present its recommendations to Congress. Former U.S. Comptroller...

CRFB board member Laura Tyson and Berkeley Research Group directors Eric Drabkin and Ken Serwin wrote in Project Syndicate in favor of Baucus's...

With Congress is in recess, it's likely we won't see a deal this week, but the December 13th deadline for the budget conference committee is fast...

Though the government shutdown ended a little over a month ago, its effects still linger on. In an editorial published today in The Hill, former...

The budget conference committee is holding its second hearing this morning as the conferees continue to try and work out a compromise between the...

Today was the first meeting of the budget conference committee negotiating over this year's discretionary spending levels. Although the first meeting...

The budget conference committee will begin to meet in full shortly, when the conferees will begin to look for a compromise between the Senate and...

It is difficult to believe that nearly two weeks ago, our country was on the brink of default, the shutdown dragged on, and lawmakers seemed unable to...

Yesterday, CRFB board member and former Senate Budget Committee argued in the Washington Post that ultimately, additional revenue through...

The shutdown may be over and fears of a default adverted for now, but the reality remains that we still haven't made any progress on our debt problem...

In yesterday's New York Times, the paper asks in its " Room for Debate" series what federal spending we are better off without in light of the...

The government is still shut down, and the debt ceiling is looming around the corner. Markets are beginning to worry, and the country is facing its...