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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Read moreHere are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The Chicago Tribune criticized both parties for reckless spending...
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‘Line’ Items: Greek Tragedy Edition
Read moreFrom Sophisticated to Sophocles – The untangling of the complex web of financial manipulation and deceit arising from the “hidden debts” controversy...
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Rethinking TRICARE Benefits
Read moreAdmiral Roughead (Navy), General Conway, (Marine Corps) and Admiral Allen (Coast Guard) all took the spending challenge today, arguing that retired...
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CAP Takes the Spending Challenge
Read moreThe Center for American Progress recently discussed what it would take to meet the President's fiscal goal of a primary balance in 2015, or finding...
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‘Line’ Items: Derby Edition
Read moreSuper Saver Cashes In – Those who couldn’t resist the irony of betting it all on a horse named Super Saver were rewarded handsomely on Saturday as the...
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Improper Payments Are a Start--But Cuts Must Go Deeper
Read moreIn an OMBlog today, OMB director Peter Orszag applauded the House's passage of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act. Improper payments...
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Blue Dogs Bark: They Want Spending Caps
Read moreAttempting to place a leash on federal spending, members of the Blue Dog Coalition are introducing legislation this week to reinstate discretionary...
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House Spenders Question Administration Troika on Deficits, Fiscal Commission, and Job Growth
Read moreIn today’s hearing before the full House Appropriations Committee, the troika (OMB Director Peter Orszag, Treasury Secretary Geithner, and Dr...
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Will Third Time Be the Charm for Spending Caps?
Read moreLegislation from Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) to establish discretionary spending caps may get a third vote this week in...
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The Deficit Challenge Turns to Government Assets...
Read moreIn a blog post yesterday, Donald Marron discussed an additional way for governments to ease budget pressures along with traditional spending cuts and...
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Constitutional Route Becoming Popular
Read moreGiven the present economic and political climate, many are eying Constitutional changes to help improve the budget situation. In yesterday’s Wall...
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Senate Falls One Vote Shy of Considering Sessions-McCaskill Spending Caps Amendment
Read moreThe Senate has just voted to not waive a Budget Act point of order raised against the Sessions-McCaskill amendment (#3337) to the Senate jobs bill...