Other Spending

In a Washington Post article last weekend, Zachary Karabell takes issue with the importance placed on CBO scoring of legislation, arguing that the...

With the release of the FY 2015 President's budget, the Obama Administration has now presented six annual budget plans (and an additional proposal to...

The Tax Reform Act of 2014, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp's (R-MI) discussion draft, is a sizeable document touching almost all parts of the...

A few weeks ago, we talked about the Senate veterans bill proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders, which would increase spending on veterans and pay for it...

In a somewhat atypical move, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel previewed in a speech yesterday the Department of Defense's (DoD's) budget request for...

Earlier this week, Congress moved quickly on a bill to repeal the military cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) reduction for working age retirees that...

With the debt ceiling having been reinstated last Friday, lawmakers are scrambling to come up with legislation to lift or suspend it again before...

Soon, the Senate may consider the Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act legislation ( the CBO scoring...

While the President's 2014 State of the Union address largely eschewed talking about fiscal policy directly, it did touch on a number of proposals...

The threat of the " dairy cliff" is receding. On Monday, lawmakers in the farm bill conference committee emerged with an agreement that would save $17...

In yesterday's State of the Union address, the President called for extending unemployment benefits that expired in December, which would affect...

The war savings gimmick is back! As the debate over how to offset a permanent "doc fix" to Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate formula heats up, the...