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Pentagon White Paper Looks at Reforms to Military Retirement
Read moreA recent Department of Defense white paper takes a close look at what reforms to the military retirement system might look like, even though the... -
Sen. Murray Introduces Tax Cut Bill
Read moreSenate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced legislation yesterday to cut taxes for low- and middle-income workers in a few different... -
Gimmick in Doc Fix Patch Should Be Replaced with Real Savings
Read moreCongress is considering another 12-month doc fix, averting a 24 percent cut in Medicare physician payments scheduled for April 1. While the SGR patch... -
One-Year Doc Fix Emerges
Read more(Updated to incorporate new information from the Congressional Budget Office's score of the doc fix bill) In lieu of a permanent agreement and with... -
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The Tax Break-Down: Tax Extenders
Read moreThis is the sixteenth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which analyzes and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform... -
Administration Softens Sequester Impact on Health Reform Again
Read moreA new rule proposed by the administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would effectively eliminate the sequester for another... -
House Hearing on 'Why Debt Matters'
Read moreThe House Financial Services Committee held a hearing this morning on " Why Debt Matters," which included testimony by Honeywell CEO Dave Cote, former... -
MY VIEW: Joshua Gordon and Jason Peuquet
Read moreJason Peuquet, research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, has an op-ed with Joshua Gordon of the Concord Coalition in the San... -
Paying the Costs of Bonus Depreciation
Read moreIn the coming weeks, both the House and Senate are expected to begin discussing what to do with a number of expired tax provisions known as the "tax... -
Steny Hoyer Calls for a 'Grand Bargain'
Read moreHouse Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) called on Congress to lay the groundwork for a budget grand bargain. Speaking this morning, Hoyer urged members... -
Camp Makes Responsible Choices on Tax Extenders
Read moreWhile Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp's (R-MI) Tax Reform Act of 2014 (TRA) misses a critical opportunity to use tax reform to slow the...