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‘Line’ Items: Super Failure Edition
Read moreSuperBad – Well, they did it after all. In an amazing feat of utter failure, the so-called Super Committee managed to under-perform the already low...
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Approprations Update: No Drama This Time
Read moreAfter an eleventh-hour deal that included a dramatic showdown in April and a minor standoff in September, it's nice to see a continuing resolution...
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Let's Negotiate Savings Up Instead of Down
Read moreAs we said earlier this week, the Super Committee needs to be finding ways to negotiate its way up to larger savings, not working to push savings down...
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Senators Kirk and Manchin Offer "Go Big" Proposal
Read moreToday, Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) called for a "Sense of the Senate" resolution pushing for Congress to "Go Big" on deficit...
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Moment of Truth Project Highlights Reforms to Health Care Cost-Sharing and Federal Retirement
Read moreWith the deadline for the Super Committee to come to an agreement nearly here, the Moment of Truth Project, a project of CRFB, has released two new...
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MY View: Maya MacGuineas November 2011
Read moreCRFB president Maya MacGuineas just wrote an essay featured in the Ripon Forum. She writes that the debate over whether the "debt crisis" or the "jobs...
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Super Committee Can Keep "Go Big" Momentum Going by Calling for Another Stage
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and many others have called on the Super Committee to find two or three times its mandated $1.5...
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A Final Bipartisan, Bicameral Push to Go Big
Read moreToday at 10:30 am ET, Republican and Democratic lawmakers from both the House and the Senate will be holding a press conference pushing Go Big in a...
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Lawmakers Reach Across the Aisle, and Houses, to Support Go Big
Read moreA group of legislators today staged a rare bipartisan, bicameral show of strength to support the Super Committee and encourage it to “ Go Big.” At a...
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Mark Zandi Joins Announcement Effect Club
Read moreYesterday, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi penned an article in Politico about the various possible outcomes of the looming Super...