Yesterday, the Campaign to Fix the Debt officially launched with a press conference at that National Press Club. The Campaign is intended to drum up...

The State Budget Crisis Task Force -- a group of budget experts including the likes of former CBO and OMB director Alice Rivlin, former Federal...

Update: C-SPAN has uploaded a video of the event. You can view it here. Today, CRFB is helping to launch the Campaign to Fix the Debt at the National...

After the report we released in March, the topic of the fiscal cliff has risen in prominence as CBO and others have attempted to estimate the size of...

A line-by-line budget submission simply allows Congress to distract everyone, including itself, into debates over high visibility-but-small return...

We have said before that the Disability Insurance (DI) portion of Social Security is too often overlooked, even though it has a more immediate funding...

The Hill points to a press release by Senator (and former OMB director) Rob Portman (R-OH) that claims the upper-income portion of the 2001/2003/2010...

In evaluating the fiscal cliff, it is interesting to see how it compares to past cases where the federal government has rapidly reduced deficits. The...

Today on the Brookings Institution website, CRFB co-chair and former Congressman Bill Frenzel (R-MN) wrote an op-ed about the looming fiscal cliff. In...

Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson appeared alongside Warren Buffett on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning, discussing the need for Congress to pass a...

The defense portion of the sequester that will hit on January 2 of next year has garnered a lot of attention, but it is not the only part of the...