CRFB live tweeted the fifth public meeting of the President's fiscal commission on our Twitter page ( www.twitter.com/budgethawks) this morning! For...

Update 09-30-10: The Senate passed the CR last night on a 69-30 vote. The House soon followed with a successful 228-194 vote. An amendment from...

Recently, two prominent figures have joined CRFB’s Announcement Effect Club. Joining the Announcement Effect Club requires a statement that taking...

Not Much Worth Remembering – As September closes this week, it is clear that lawmakers already have one foot out the door; anxious to return home to...

Managing to perform below the already-low bar set by recent precedent, Congress will not finish work on any FY 2011 appropriations bills before the...

Today, the House passed HR 5297, the small business bill that had been stalled in Congress for weeks. It is expected that President Obama will sign it...

The September growth play picked up speed at the end of the week, as markets liked stronger than expected US business investment data from August...

It's that time of year again, when people start asking whether Social Security recipients will receive a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA). And it...

Today the Republican caucus of the House of Representatives released an agenda-setting document as a part of its strategy to take control of the House...

The Center for American Progress released a paper yesterday titled " A Thousand Cuts." The paper aims to show how deep policymakers would have to cut...

The remarkable level of austerity proposed in Britain’s new emergency budget made news around the world (see our earlier blog for details) as, in the...

Attemping to show how deep policymakers would have to cut spending to reduce the deficit to primary balance in 2015, the Center for American Progress...