In a little over one month, lawmakers will face their second significant Fiscal Speed Bump of the year when the one-year "doc fix" expires. At that...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen delivered testimony on the Semiannual Monetary Policy report to the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. Not...

The Council of Economic Advisers released its 2015 Economic Report of the President last week, discussing several recent economic developments and how...

Rudolph Penner was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and he is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a...

CBO unofficially closed the books on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, or the 2009 stimulus), putting out its final report on the...

Jim Kolbe and Charlie Stenholm are former members of Congress and members of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) served...

Next Tuesday will be the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Congressional Budget Office, and University of Maryland Professor Phillip Joyce has...

As we've mentioned frequently, budget projections and economic forecasts are inextricably linked in determining both the nominal dollar budget numbers...

We've written extensively about the President's budget since it was released, both in our analysis of the budget and in our blog series. Also notable...

The President proposed last week, through his FY 2016 budget, a number of proposals to reform Social Security in small ways, including measures to...