Super Committee

Previously, we've voiced a number of concerns about sequestration, including that it is too abrupt, too mindless, too focused on the discretionary...

We talked yesterday about the importance of keeping the trigger, or the automatic sequester of $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, in place in order to...

When Congress raised the debt ceiling in last August’s Budget Control Act (BCA), it mandated at least $1.2 trillion in further savings by 2021, from...

As we said earlier this week, the Super Committee needs to be finding ways to negotiate its way up to larger savings, not working to push savings down...

Today, Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) called for a "Sense of the Senate" resolution pushing for Congress to "Go Big" on deficit...

With the deadline for the Super Committee to come to an agreement nearly here, the Moment of Truth Project, a project of CRFB, has released two new...

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and many others have called on the Super Committee to find two or three times its mandated $1.5...

Today at 10:30 am ET, Republican and Democratic lawmakers from both the House and the Senate will be holding a press conference pushing Go Big in a...

A group of legislators today staged a rare bipartisan, bicameral show of strength to support the Super Committee and encourage it to “ Go Big.” At a...

You might think we're about to talk about Social Security reform or how to reform the Sustainable Growth Rate. But what we're actually talking about...

This week has seen the emergence of another set of broad outlines from the Democrats and Republicans on the Super Committee, in a process that is...

According to The Hill, Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has signaled to Senate colleagues that he would be willing to support a $4...