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FY 2012 Appropriations Update: The House Is in Motion
Read moreAttempting not to replicate last year's/this year's FY 2011 appropriations debacle, the House is moving the FY 2012 process in a relatively timely...
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Check Out WaPo's Interactive Graphic
Read moreThe Washington Post has a great interactive graphic up on their website that allows you to compare several major fiscal plans -- and it's based on...
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OMB Attacks Improper Payments Again
Read moreWe talked a lot last year about OMB efforts to improve government efficiency, culminating in the Improper Payment Elimination and Recovery Act in July...
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‘Line’ Items: Dark Horse Edition
Read moreNot Rounding the Bend Yet – Like the Triple Crown field, the fiscal policy landscape is muddled with several solutions vying to break out from the...
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CRFB Identifies $1 Trillion-Plus in Common-Ground Savings
Read moreIn a release today, CRFB highlighted the overlapping policies between the most prominent fiscal plans, identifying over $1 trillion in commonalities...
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Senate Republicans Introduce Medicaid Block Grant Legislation
Read moreYesterday, Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK), Richard Burr (R-NC), and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) released a proposal to reform the Medicaid program. Their...
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Secretary Geithner on Our Fiscal Challenges
Read moreEarlier this week, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner gave a speech about the unsustainability of our country's current fiscal path. Speaking at the...
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Spotlight on the States: Ohio
Read moreTaking a break from all the recent developments in the budget and fiscal policy world, we take a quick turn to our Spotlight on the States blog series...
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A Few Interesting Reports from CBO
Read moreIn the past few days, CBO has released a few documents that might be of interest to budget wonks. The first is a further analysis of the final FY 2011...
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Averting a Fiscal Crisis
Read moreCRFB has compiled a brief background on the scope of our nation's fiscal challenges and the drivers of our debt and deficits, while outlining some of...
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Trustees Report Strengthens Case for Retirement Age Increase
Read moreLast week, several bloggers, commentators, and columnists went after Al Simpson for talking about increases in life expectancy at birth (since this...