The first presidential debate is now only one week away on October 3 at the University of Denver. With much of the first debate focusing on the...

Yesterday, a group of six senators from both parties signed a letter to Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell...

Last week, we featured a piece by CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein discussing one option to reduce tax rates while maintaining...

The United States Conference of Mayors has written a letter signed by 149 mayors across the country, a bipartisan collection including the likes of...

Late last week, the Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) by a 62-30 vote to keep the government funded for the next six months with only a week...

Yesterday, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee held a joint hearing on tax reform and the tax treatment of capital...

In today's USA Today, Fix the Debt co-founders and Simpson-Bowles co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Al Simpson write that each party can't just have its...

On Bloomberg Government's "Capitol Gains" show, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) endorsed at least the Simpson-Bowles outline as the starting point for...

POLITICO reported earlier in the week that the estate tax debate is re-emerging as the expiration of the 2001/2003/2010 tax cuts looms. The estate tax...