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Loren Adler: Tax Extenders Deal Could Undermine the ACA
Read moreLoren Adler, Research Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a guest post that appeared on the RealClearPolicy blog . It...
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Senate Democrats Ask for Extenders to be Offset
Read moreLast week Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jack Reed (D-RI), Angus King (I-ME), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), sent a letter to...
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Short-Term Extenders Package Is Still Irresponsible
Read moreFaced with the possible opposition over a $700 billion deal to extend permanently some of the expiring " tax extenders", Congress may consider a bill...
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Are Tax Extenders Worth The Cost?
Read moreAs Congress appears to be closing in on a fiscally irresponsible tax extenders deal that's expected to cost $700 billion in the next decade and as...
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GOP Campaigns Discuss Tax Plans
Read moreThe Conservative Reform Network and Americans for Tax Reform recently hosted a forum where representatives from the Republican presidential campaigns...
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Kent Conrad: Congress should pay for any extension of tax breaks
Read moreKent Conrad, former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, wrote a commentary in The Hill . It is reposted here. Just under three years ago – in my...
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Peuquet Highlights Importance of Budget Debates
Read moreAs we face an end-of-the-year legislative crunch that promises to be fiscally irresponsible, former Research Director of the Committee for a...
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Health Reform Issues That 2016 Candidates Should Consider
Read moreThe Brookings Institution’s Center on Children and Families recently held an event to discuss issues for the 2016 presidential candidates to emphasize...
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Maya MacGuineas: To Keep Expiring Tax Cuts, Congress Considers Another Borrowing Bonanza
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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Update: What Will Happen If the Government Shuts Down?
Read moreHere we go again, again. With government funding set to expire at the end of the week and no deal on the table, it is possible that the government...
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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...