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Richmond Fed Releases Bailout Barometer
Read moreThe Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has updated their “ Bailout Barometer,” which measures the total financial sector liabilities that have a...
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Congressional Double-Take on Revenue
Read moreThe Congressional budget resolution proposes to bring the budget into balance by reducing spending $5.3 trillion over the next decade while keeping...
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Reps. Carney and Renacci Release Bill Improving Budget Process
Read moreThis week, Representatives John Carney (D-DE) and Jim Renacci (R-OH) introduced a bipartisan bill to improve the budget process. The Budget Integrity...
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Four Takeaways from the Solutions Initiative Plans
Read moreThe Peterson Foundation's Solutions Initiative III produced five different fiscal plans that would improve the current long-term budget outlook. We...
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Marc Goldwein: Feds Warn Transit Agencies About Funding Cut Off
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a guest post that...
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Op-Ed: Paving the Way for Sustainable Highway Financing
Read moreRealClearPolicy | May 21, 2015 Congress faces yet another deadline, and yet again is set to stall. This time, there literally could be a bumpy road...
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Sanders Takes Aim at Generic Drug Prices in Medicaid
Read moreEarlier this week, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act, a bill...
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Repairing How the Budget Treats the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreIn our recently released plan, The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending, we propose a variety of measures to support the Highway Trust Fund (HTF)...
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Discretionary Spending and the Sequester in the Final Budget Conference
Read moreThe budget resolution conference agreement has passed both the House and Senate. While we previously wrote about the conference's deficit reduction...
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Time to Close Two Social Security Loopholes
Read moreWith the Social Security trust funds facing a significant shortfall over the next 75 years and expected to run out of money within 20 years, Alicia...
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CRFB's Plan to Repair the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreWith the deadline for extending the surface transportation authorization just a few weeks away and Highway Trust Fund (HTF) bankruptcy approaching...