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CMS Finds Pickup in Health Care Spending Growth in 2014
Read moreThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its National Health Expenditure (NHE) numbers for 2014 today, showing an expected pickup...
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Washington Post Criticizes Senate Vote to Repeal the Cadillac Tax
Read moreThere were many legislative developments in the past week, including the passage of a five-year highway bill and continued negotiations on a tax deal...
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Hillary Clinton Releases Infrastructure Plan
Read moreThis blog is part of a series of " Policy Explainers" for the 2016 presidential election, where we explain some of the candidates' policy proposals...
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Five Years Since Simpson-Bowles: How Much of It Have We Enacted?
Read moreToday marks the fifth anniversary of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform's (Fiscal Commission's) vote on the Simpson-Bowles...
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Who Gets What in the Tax Extenders Deal?
Read moreCongress is still considering a potential fiscally irresponsible deal to extend the 50-some tax breaks that expired at the end of the year, known as...
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Highway Conference Agreement is Both Gimmicky and Costly
Read moreCongressional negotiators this week released a conference agreement on highway spending authorization that will largely settle the issue of highway...
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Lankford Publishes Federal Fumbles
Read moreSenator James Lankford (R-OK), former Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-OK) successor, is maintaining the Debt Doctor's legacy with his Federal Fumbles book...
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Tax Deal Goes Beyond Simple Extensions
Read moreCongress is in the process of negotiating a potential $ 700 billion deal that would extend several tax provisions that expired at the end of 2014...
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Robert L. Bixby and Maya MacGuineas: Campaigns must focus on debt before all else
Read moreRobert L. Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and...
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Emerging Tax Deal Could Add $2.3 Trillion in Debt by 2035
Read moreA fiscally irresponsible bipartisan deal is emerging to re-instate, make permanent, and in some cases expand many expired tax breaks known as tax...
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Five-Year Highway Bill Could Be a Costly Mistake
Read moreAs the House and Senate are conferencing their highway bills, a debate has broken out over how to spend the $78 billion of offsets. Setting aside the...
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Seven Reasons to Pay for Tax Extenders
Read moreBy the end of the year, lawmakers will likely to try to revive the “ tax extenders,” a set of more than 50 tax breaks that expired at the end of 2014...