Mad, Mad World – There’s enough madness in DC to go around. Lawmakers from opposite parties seem perpetually angry at each other, yet they are moving...

With the House of Repressive getting ready to vote on a full repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), the Washington Post Editorial...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its analysis of President Obama's FY 2013 budget proposals. In a somewhat surprising analysis...

In what was surprising news to many when, yesterday, freshman Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR) announced that he would introduce legislation that would apply...

Yesterday, the Senate passed a two-year $109 billion transportation bill by a 74-22 vote. Since 2009, when the last five-year transportation bill...

In its March baseline, CBO made a number of changes in its projections for health care spending. Given the significance of health spending to the...

An interesting article by Eduardo Porter in today’s New York Times, A Nation With Too Many Tax Breaks, takes a look at the role of tax expenditures in...

Although CBO's analysis of the President's budget is the newsmaker in March in the budget world, CBO also updates its current law baseline, which...

Comparing fiscal plans can often be a difficult task. The plans may use different baselines, use different ten-year windows, have different estimates...

Yesterday, in POLITICO David Rogers had an article about an effort in the House to temporarily delay the sequester scheduled to hit at year's end. As...