Last week, we reported the good news from the Congressional Budget Office that the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) would cost $25 billion...

The Senate began debate late Thursday on the tax cut compromise hammered out by some lawmakers and President Obama. The debate began even as House...

CRFB Board Member, Gene Steuerle, is co-author with Robert Friedman of a recent op-ed which discusses how to prioritize tax breaks to encourage...

Continuing its year-long lesson in "How Not To Budget," the House Wednesday passed legislation that would freeze overall Fiscal Year 2011...

James T. Lynn, a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget board and former budget director in the Ford administration died Dec. 6 in...

Financial markets have reacted to the new tax cut deal between the White House and Congressional leaders which would add some $800-900 billion to our...

Today legislation to provide $250 payments to Social Security recipients in lieu of a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) failed to garner enough votes...

It appears that President Obama and Republican lawmakers have reached a deal to extend the tax cuts enacted from 2001 to 2003. Part of the deal...

In her latest commentary on CNN Money, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas celebrates the bipartisan, super-majority vote of the Fiscal Commission and...

After the addition of the Fiscal Commission to the Announcement Effect Club last week, Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post kept the membership...