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Postal Service Emerges as Offset for Highway Trust Fund
Read moreBloomberg Businessweek reported last week that House Republicans are considering a plan that would utilize savings from U.S. Postal Service (USPS)... -
Should Congress Extend Bonus Depreciation?
Read moreThe Ways and Means Committee voted on a number of tax bills last week, including legislation that would restore and expand bonus depreciation at a... -
Appropriations 101
Read moreNote: This paper has been updated here. What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by Congress about how the federal government... -
Delaney and Cole Propose Social Security Commission
Read moreReps. John Delaney (D-MD) and Tom Cole (R-OK) introduced the Social Security Commission Act of 2014 today. -
House Affordable Medicines Caucus Has Options
Read moreReps. Peter Welch (D-VT) and Keith Rothfus (R-PA) have officially re-launched a bipartisan caucus in the House looking to promote the use of high... -
Ways and Means Continues Increasing Deficit With Tax Cuts
Read moreThe Ways and Means Committee is continuing to work through the set of over 50 tax breaks that expired at the end of 2013, choosing certain provisions... -
President Obama Announces Path of Troop Drawdown in Afghanistan
Read morePresident Obama announced yesterday the number of troops that would be remaining in Afghanistan beyond the end of the year. While these levels are not... -
The Budgetary Effect of Credit Programs
Read moreCredit programs involving loans and loan guarantees are accounted for differently than most other programs in the federal budget. Whereas other... -
Maya MacGuineas: What’s Missing in the Earmark Debate
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington... -
Mulvaney Amendment Would Limit OCO Gimmick
Read moreStrict limits on discretionary spending have made it difficult for policymakers to fund everything they want. Yet instead of making hard choices and... -
Alan Simpson: Forget Bipartisanship – We Need Generationship
Read moreAlan Simpson, one of the chairs of the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, co-wrote an op... -
House Defense Bill Draws Potential Veto
Read moreThe White House issued a statement Monday saying that the President's senior advisers would recommend vetoing H.R. 4435, the annual defense...