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Two More Calls for the U.S. to Tackle Its Debt
Two recent warnings over the United States' fiscal outlook are worth taking a look at. First, Bank of America Merrill Lynch released a report last...
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CRFB Analysis Shows Why Going Big Could Improve Chances of Success
With the Super Committee deliberating and the window for committee submissions passed, CRFB has released an analysis and a corresponding slide show...
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The Importance of Shared Sacrifice
As is well-known by now, the growth in entitlement programs fueled by rising health care costs and an aging population threatens an ever-increasing...
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Tracker Updated With Two Plans From Last Week
We have updated our tracker of recommendations to the Super Committee with two plans that came out last Wednesday. The first is by the Congressional...
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Democrats Target Oil and Other Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Yesterday, a group of 14 Senate Democrats sent a letter to the Super Committee, urging them to eliminate oil subsidies for the top five oil companies...
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Growing Support for Go Big
For the past several weeks, we have been urging the Super Committee to Go Big on deficit-reduction and exceed its savings mandate of $1.5 trillion...
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Last Minute Recommendations to the Super Committee
Update: The House and Senate Agricultural Committees sent a bicameral, bipartisan letter to the Super Committee on Friday, promising a $23 billion...
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House Democratic Caucus Submits Recommendations
With only a day left for Committees to send recommendations to the Super Committee, the House Democrats decided to take an omnibus approach. Letters...
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13th and 14th Plans Added to Super Committee Tracker
Two more recent recommendations have been added to our Super Committee submissions tracker, dealing with defense and health care. The first comes from...
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JP Morgan on the Financial Perspective of Fiscal Policy
In a recent report, JP Morgan summed up a number of reasons, from a financial perspective, on why it is important for the Joint Select Committee on...
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More Plans, More Ideas
CRFB has updated its table of submissions to the Super Committee with four new plans from September. The first plan is from the Center for American...
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Two Letters to the Super Committee on Defense and Medicare
Two more submissions have recently been made to the Super Committee, adding to what is becoming an interesting list of ideas for them to draw...