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House Appropriations Committee Offers Detailed List of Cuts
Read moreToday, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers (R-KY) released a preliminary proposal for cuts to the President's FY2011 budget...
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Op-Ed: No More Excuses on Debt, Mr. Obama
Read moreCNN Money | February 8, 2011 Anyone looking for serious fiscal leadership from President Obama in his State of the Union Address could have been...
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Bipartisan Senate Support for Enhanced Presidential Rescission Authority
Read moreSenators John McCain (R-AZ) and Thomas Carper (D-DE) have joined efforts in yet another bipartisan pairing, this time to enable enhanced rescission...
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CNN Money Exclusive: No Excuses on the Debt, Mr. Obama
Read moreIn her latest commentary on CNN money, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas calls on President Obama to stop making excuses and get serious about developing...
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OMB Director in New York Times: "The Easy Cuts Are Behind Us"
Read moreOMB Director Jack Lew previewed President Obama’s FY2012 budget in an op-ed published in Sunday’s New York Times. The title of the piece, "The Easy...
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Spotlight on the States: New York
Read moreThis week, our Spotlight on the States series takes us to New York. New York faces an estimated budget deficit of $10 billion. Due to slower-than...
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‘Line’ Items: Play On Edition
Read moreBudget Season Ramping Up – Football season may have ended last night, but budget season is just heating up. Lawmakers have introduced a plethora of...
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Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson on CNBC
Read moreThis morning the two co-chairs of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform were guests on CNBC's The Call. Erskine...
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House and Senate to Have Serious Debate Over Spending
Read moreWith the House Appropriations Committee releasing their spending allocations for each subcommittee yesterday, it is useful to examine what the Senate...
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MarketWatch: January 31 - February 4, 2011
Read moreMarkets in the U.S. and elsewhere have focused on signs that the U.S. economy continues to recover, although still at a very gradual pace. January’s...
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Balanced Budget Amendment Debate Gets Serious
Read moreThe debate over a Constitutional balanced-budget amendment has been going on in Washington for quite some time. However, the current fiscal...