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Federal Budget Archive

Date Type Title/Link
12/20/05 Statement Ten Criteria for Judging a Balanced Budget Plan
02/23/05 Transcript Forum Hosted by Concord Coalition: Fiscal Policy on Autopilot: Can We Regain Control?
02/15/05 Issue Brief The President's FY2006 Budget: As Significant for What It Omits as for What It Includes
02/07/05 News Release Concord Coalition Warns That President's Budget Omits The Cost Of Major Initiatives 
02/03/05 Issue Brief New CBO Report Shows the Aging of the Budget
01/25/05 News Release Concord Coalition Warns That New CBO Projections Show A Worsening Budget Outlook
01/25/05 Chart Baseline Chart: Current Policy Trends Lead to Large Sustained Deficits
10/07/04 News Release Concord Coalition Releases Report On Fiscal Policy In Campaign 2004
10/07/04 Issue Brief Fiscal Policy in Campaign 2004 (Revised: Oct. 21, 2004)
09/23/04 Issue Statement Tax Cut Extensions Should Not Be "Offset" with Higher Debt
09/17/04 Issue Brief CBO's Updated and Budget and Economic Outlook
09/07/04 News Release Concord Coalition Warns Congress And Candidates That Action Is Needed To Address The Deficit
08/15/04 Chart Baseline Chart: Current Policy Trends Lead to Large Sustained Deficits
07/30/04 News Release Concord Coalition Releases Report On Fiscal Responsibility: “Lack Of Action On Deficit Signals Undue Complacency”
07/30/04 Analysis Report on Fiscal Responsibility, Vol.6, No.1
07/20/04 News Release Concord Coalition Supports Bipartisan Effort To Offset Tax Cuts
06/24/04 Transcript Forum Hosted by the Concord Coalition: Responsible Fiscal Policy and the American Political System: Can this Match Be Made?

Fed Governor Ed Gramlich's Opening Remarks

Panel: Making Sausage in an Election Year: What's Going on in the Kitchen?

Luncheon Panel

06/24/04 Statement Remarks by Fed Governor Ed Gramlich: Reducing Budget Deficits
06/24/04 Table Table from Bill Hoagland's Presentation at the Concord Coalition Forum
05/19/04 News Release Concord Coalition Warns That One-Year Pay-As-You-Go Rule Would Allow Congress To Avoid Hard Fiscal Choices
05/14/04 Analysis Ten Criteria for Judging How Budget Plans Measure Up
04/20/04 Press Release Excerpts from Joint Statement in Restoring Pay-As-You-Go Budget Enforcement for Tax Cuts and Entitlements
04/20/04 Statement Joint Statement in Restoring Pay-As-You-Go Budget Enforcement for Tax Cuts and Entitlements
03/30/04 News Release Concord Coalition Urges Budget Negotiators To Reinstate
Pay-As-You-Go Rule For Entitlement Spending And Tax Cuts
03/16/04 Letter Letter to Honorable Baron Hill
02/09/04 Issue Brief The President's FY2005 Budget: Back to the Future?
02/09/04 Chart and Table Baseline Chart: Current Policy Trends Lead to Large Sustained Deficits
02/05/04 Issue Brief The Budget Process Reform: An Important Tool for Fiscal Discipline, Not a Magic Bullet
02/02/04 News Release Concord Coalition Says President's Budget Does Not Do Enough To Address Looming Fiscal Crunch
02/02/04 Tables Selected Tables from President's FY2005 Budget
01/26/04 News Release Concord Coalition Warns Lawmakers That Complacency With
Ballooning Deficits Will Make The Problem Worse
01/26/04 Tables Selected Tables from CBO's January 2004 Budget and Economic Outlook
12/22/03 Issue Brief Federal Spending Growth Rates: Going Up By Any Measure
12/04/03 News Release Concord Coalition's “Key Questions” Encourages Voters To Test The Candidates' Fiscal Rhetoric
11/19/03 News Release Concord Coalition Warns That Fiscal Discipline Is Not On The Menu For Thanksgiving
11/10/03 News Release

Concord Coalition Says New CBO Letter Confirms That Tough Choices Are Needed To Avoid Permanent Deficits

Note revised letter from Congressional Budget Office

 

11/06/03 Statement Acceptance Speech of Olympia Snowe for the Economic Patriot Award
09/29/03 Statement Joint Statement: The Developing Crisis: Deficits Matter
09/29/03 Issue Brief Joint Mid-Term and Long-Term Deficit Projections
09/29/03 Charts Charts to Accompany Brief
09/23/03 Transcript Joint Forum: No End in Sight of Rising Deficits, Experts Warn
08/29/03 Issue Brief No Easy Answers: CBO Projections Confirm the Need for Tough Choices
08/26/03 News Release Concord Coalition Warns That New CBO Projections Confirm The Need For Tough Choices
07/14/03 News Release Concord Coalition Releases Report On Fiscal Responsibility: “Deficits, Deception And Denial Rate A Failing Grade”
07/14/03 Analysis Report on Fiscal Responsibility, Vol.5, No.1
05/28/03 Issue Brief Sunsets Hide More Than Half of the Revenue Loss From Recent Tax Cuts
05/15/03 News Release Concord Coalition Warns That Tax Cut “Sunset” Gimmicks Shift The Burden Of Hard Choices To The Future
04/30/03 News Release Concord Coalition President Peter G. Peterson Testifies Before House Financial Services Committee About The Fiscal Outlook And Tax Policy
04/30/03 Testimony Testimony of Peter G. Peterson Before House Financial Services Committee

Executive Summary

Full Testimony

03/20/03 News Release Concord Coalition Says That Budget Debate Should Be Postponed Until War Supplemental Is Dealt With: Favors “Blue Dog” Budget Over Other Alternatives In The House And Carper-Chafee-Feinstein Amendment In The Senate
03/19/03 News Release Concord Coalition Updates Its 10 Criteria For Judging Balanced Budget Plans
03/19/03 Analysis 10 Criteria For Judging Balanced Budget Plans
03/17/03 News Release Concord Coalition Says House And Senate Budget Plans Set The Right Goal But Chart An Implausible Course
03/05/03 News Release Groups Issue Warning on Deficits: CED and Concord Coalition Say Fiscal Crisis Will Deepen Without Long-Term Budget Planning
03/05/03 Statement Joint Statement on the Federal Budget and the Nation's Economic Future
02/24/03 Analysis Understanding the Federal Debt Ceiling
02/02/03 News Release Concord Coalition Leaders Pose the Question: “Are We Really Cutting Taxes -- Or Just Raising Them On Our Kids?”
02/02/03 New York Times Ad Are We Really Cutting Taxes--Or Just Raising Them On Our Kids?
01/28/03 News Release Concord Coalition Warns Against Growing Complacent With Deteriorating Long-Term Budget Outlook
01/28/03 Chart Baseline Chart: Current Policy Trends Lead to Large Sustained Deficits
01/10/03 Issue Statement Concord Coalition Raises 4 Questions In Evaluating the President's New Cut Tax Proposal
12/10/02 Issue Brief Budget Update: The Return of Deficits (See Below for Charts)
12/04/02 Analysis New Alternative CBO Projections Show the Potential of Growing Deficits as Far as the Eye Can See
10/11/02 New York Times Ad We Ask Our Soldiers to Sacrifice: What About the Rest of Us?
09/26/02 Letter Letter to Senator Conrad and Senator Domenici
09/15/02 Charts Federal Budget (to accompany 12/10 Issue Brief)

Chart 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

09/12/02 News Release Concord Coalition Offers Key Questions Voters Should Ask Candidates About The Budget, Social Security & Medicare
08/27/02 News Release Concord Coalition Warns That Deteriorating Budget Outlook Must Not Be Ignored
06/20/02 News Release Concord Coalition Supports Budget Enforcement Amendment
06/12/02 News Release Concord Coalition Warns Against Removing Tax Cut Sunsets In The Absence Of A Budget Agreement
06/04/02 Analysis Report on Fiscal Responsibility, Vol.4, No.1
05/30/02 Letter Letter to Senators Feingold, Gregg, Kerry and Chafee
04/18/02 News Release Concord Coalition Urges Congress And President To Agree On A New Balanced Budget Plan Before Removing Tax Cut "Sunset"
03/12/02 News Release The Budget Resolution: Ten Do's and Don'ts
03/12/02 Issue Brief The Budget Resolution: Ten Do's and Don'ts
03/08/02 News Release Concord Coalition Warns That New Tax Breaks Amount To “Open Season” On The Budget
02/14/02 Testimony Bob Bixby before the Senate Finance Committee on Increasing the Debt Limit
01/24/02 Charts Analysis of CBO's Budget and Economic Outlook FY2003-2012
01/23/02 News Release Concord Coalition Calls On President And Congress To Reestablish Non-Social Security Balanced Budget Goal
01/14/02 Transcript Press Conference on Budget Issues, Entitlement Reform, and Generational Patriotism
01/14/02 Policy Statement Fiscal Policy in the New Environment
Five Recommendations For 2002
12/18/01 News Release Concord Coalition Says That Economic Stimulus Package Need Not Be Under The Christmas Tree
12/12/01 Op-Ed Op-Ed by Paul Volcker in the Wall Street Journal, "Don't Just Pass a Stimulus Bill: Think about It."
10/24/01 News Release Concord Coalition Urges The President And Congress To Carefully Limit The Cost Of Additional Fiscal Stimulus
10/07/01 New York Times Ad A Time for Thoughtful Action:
For Today and Tomorrow
10/05/01 News Release Concord Coalition Leaders Urge “A Time For Thoughtful Action” On Fiscal Stimulus
08/28/01 News Release Concord Coalition Warns Against Return To Routine Reliance On Social Security To Balance the Budget
08/22/01 News Release Concord Coalition Urges Fiscal Discipline In Response To Shrinking Surplus
07/25/01 Testimony Testimony of Robert Bixby, Executive Director, before the Rules Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process on Biennial Budgeting
06/28/01 Testimony Testimony of Robert Bixby, Executive Director, before the Senate Committee on the Budget on "How Big is the Remaining Surplus?"
06/28/01 Charts To Accompany Testimony:

Social Security and Medicare Cash Deficits

Surplus Excluding Social Security and Medicare Part A After the Tax Cut

06/14/01 Issue Brief Beyond the Tax Cut  … Now Comes the Hard Part

Scorecard

04/19/01 News Release House Tax Cuts & Senate Spending Hikes Could Wipe Out the Surplus
03/22/01 Issue Brief The Marriage Penalty Debate
03/12/01 News Release Joint Statement by Warren Rudman, Sam Nunn, Peter Peterson, Robert Rubin & Paul Volcker
03/12/01 Transcript News Conference in Budget Policy, Tax Cuts, and the Surplus
03/08/01 News Release Media Advisory: Concord Leaders Warren Rudman, Sam Nunn, Peter Peterson, Robert Rubin & Paul Volcker to Hold Press Conference Monday, March 12, at 9 A.M. at NPC
10/11/00 News Release Concord Coalition Releases Issue Brief Describing How Bush & Gore Plans Rely on a Surplus Field of Dreams
10/11/00 Issue Brief The Surplus Field of Dreams
10/11/00 Table Table to Accompany Surplus Field of Dreams
10/06/00 News Release Concord Coalition Warns Current Spending Pace Could Eliminate 2/3 of the Projected Surplus
10/06/00 Table Current Trend Baseline 2001-2010
10/05/00 Letter Letter to Senator Lott on H.R. 4844
09/11/00 News Release Concord Coalition Urges Congress to Enact Inflation-Adjusted Spending Caps
09/11/00 Issue Brief Discretionary Spending Caps
07/26/00 News Release Concord Coalition Releases New Key Questions Voters Should Ask Candidates About the Budget, Social Security & Medicare
07/18/00 News Release Concord Coalition Urges Congress to Enact Realistic Spending Caps
06/26/00 News Release Concord Coalition Warns That the New "Surplus" Is Not New Money, It's Simply a New Projection
06/08/00 Letter Letter to Chairman Archer on H.R. 4601
05/11/00 Letter Letter to Chairman Dreier and Representative Luther On Amendment to H.R. 853, The Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act
05/09/00 Letter Letter to Congressmen Nussle and Cardin on H.R. 853
04/24/00 Issue Brief The Fiscal Year 2001 Budget ¾ Familiar Disagreements Frame the Debate
04/06/00 Letter Letter to Senators Kohl and Leahy on S. Con. Res. 101
03/29/00 News Release Concord Coalition Warns Against Using Surplus For Non-Emergency Spending
03/23/00 News Release Concord Coalition Favors Blue Dog Budget Alternative
03/22/00 Issue Brief Marriage Penalty (Revised)
03/16/00 News Release Concord Coalition's Robert Bixby Testifies Before House Rules Committee in Support of Biennial Budgeting
03/16/00 Testimony Testimony of Robert Bixby, Executive Director, before the Rules House Committee in Support of Biennial Budgeting
03/08/00 News Release Concord Coalition Warns Against Fiscal Year 2000 Surplus Giveaway
02/09/00 News Release Concord Coalition Warns Baseline Agreement Should Come Before Tax Cuts
01/24/00 News Release Concord Coalition Warns Against Surplus "Expectations" Game
01/12/00 News Release Concord Coalition Urges Realistic Surplus Projections in FY 2001 Budget Negotiations
01/12/00 Issue Brief Fiscal Year 2000 ¾ One Good Goal, and Too Many Gimmicks
12/15/99 News Release Concord Coalition Releases Key Questions Voters Should Ask Candidates About the Budget, Social Security & Medicare
11/02/99 Issue Brief The Three Trillion Dollar Question
10/27/99 News Release It's Official: 1999 Budget Deficit Was $1 Billion Without Counting the Social Security Surplus
09/23/99 Policy Statement

Should We Scrap the Budget Caps ? No.  But Higher Caps Beat Gridlock and Gimmicks

08/14/99 News Release Concord Coalition To Run Ad in Sunday's NY Times Urging Congress & the President Not To Squander the Surplus
08/05/99 News Release Future Generations Should Come Before Tax Cuts
07/28/99 News Release Tax Cuts Should Await Hard Choices
07/21/99 News Release Concord Coalition Opposes Tax Cut Bill; Points Out the Perils of Baseline Bingo
07/16/99 Policy Brief Don't Spend the Surplus Before it Arrives
07/14/99 Analysis Surpluses as far as the eye can see -- but how good is our eyesight?
07/12/99 Op-Ed We're About to Make a Bust Out of a Bonanza
06/23/99 Letter Letter to Congressman Bass on Amendment to H.R. 853 (The Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act)
06/22/99 Letter Letter to Honorable Jim Nussle and Ben Cardin on H.R. 853
06/15/99 News Release Concord Coalition Opposes Taking Aviation Trust Fund "Off-Budget"
05/19/99 Issue Brief Marriage Penalty
05/17/99 News Release Concord Coalition Urges Defeat of Emergency Supplemental
05/12/99 News Release Concord Coalition's Martha Phillips Testifies in Favor of the Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act of 1999
05/12/99 Testimony Statement by Martha Phillipson behalf of the Concord Coalition before the House Rules Committee
05/12/99 Testimony Submitted Questions and Answers of Martha Phillips Before Hearings of the House Committee on Rules
04/26/99 News Release Concord Warns Against Budget Process "Stealth"
04/15/99 News Release Budget Resolution Leaves No Room for Error
03/03/99 News Release Concord Coalition Suggests Congress Keep Spending Caps and PAYGO While Excluding Social Security Surplus From Budget Deliberations
02/25/99 News Release Repealing Military Pension Reforms Would Send Wrong Fiscal Signal
02/25/99 Testimony Testimony of Robert L. Bixby, Policy Director, Before the House Armed Services Committee
Military Personnel Subcommittee
01/29/99 Testimony Statement of Martha Phillips on behalf of the Concord Coalition before a joint hearing of the Senate Budget Committee and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
01/28/99 News Release Concord Coalition Concerned Optimistic Surplus Projections Will Lead to Fiscally Irresponsible Choices
01/27/99 News Release Concord Coalition Endorses Federal Budget Process Changes
11/17/98 Letter Letter to the Honorable Bob Livingston (R-La.)
From Concord Co-Chairs Sam Nunn and Warren Rudman
10/28/98 News Release It's Official: 1998 Budget Deficit Was $29 Billion, Declaration of Budget Surplus Gives False Impression
10/20/98 News Release Concord Coalition Says Omnibus Spending Bill Fails Test of Fiscal Discipline
09/17/98 News Release Concord Coalition Reminds Congress: The Surplus is Already Earmarked for Social Security
09/14/98 News Release Concord Coalition Warns Budget Discipline in Jeopardy
06/05/98 News Release Concord Suggests No Budget Resolution for FY99 -- Advocates De Facto Two-Year Budget
05/22/98 Letter Letter to Honorable Amo Houghton About the FY1999 Budget Resolution
05/13/98 Letter Letter to the Honorable Michael Castle, Fred Upton, and Nancy Johnson
And the "Tuesday Group" Republicans
Concerning the Fiscal Year 1999 House Budget Resolution
05/11/98 Analysis Quarterly Deficit Report, Vol.3, No.1
05/07/98 Analysis Why is the Debt Still Going Up?
04/23/98 Analysis Federal Budget Update
02/16/98 Position Paper A New Era...and a New Goal
02/02/98 News Release Borrowing Social Security Surplus For Other Spending Allows Claim of "Balanced Budget" By 1999
01/25/98 Position Paper Concord Coalition Position Paper
on Federal Budget Surpluses
01/25/98 News Release Concord Coalition to Run NY Times Ad Focusing on the "Surplus Mirage"
01/25/98 New York Times Ad Surplus Mirage
01/19/98 News Release Concord Coalition to Host Briefing on the Budget Surplus Debate
01/08/98 News Release Concord Urges Policy Makers to Balance Budget Without Borrowing Social Security Surpluses
11/17/97 Analysis Quarterly Deficit Report, Vol.2, No.2
10/02/97 Position Paper Concord Coalition Position Paper
on Federal Budget Surpluses
09/26/97 Analysis Budget Update, Vol. 5, No. 3: How Much is In the Bank and How Shall We Spend It?
09/24/97 Position Paper A Call to Action: Busting the Transportation Juggernaut
07/30/97 Letter Letter to Senate Opposing Transfer of Gas Tax
07/29/97 Statement Initial Reaction to the Bipartisan Balanced Budget
07/14/97 News Release Coalition Opposed to Legislation Shifting 4.3 Cent Gas Tax to Transportation Trust Fund
06/26/97 News Release Concord Coalition Opposes Attempts to Strike "Kidsave" Tax Credit from Senate Tax Bill
06/26/97 News Release Concord Urges Senators to Oppose Transfer of 1993 Gas Tax Increase to Transportation Trust Funds
05/02/97 News Release Concord Reacts to Bipartisan Budget Deal
04/23/97 Analysis Quarterly Deficit Report, Vol.2, No.1
03/20/97 News Release Concord Praises Members of Congress Willing to Separate Balanced Budget and Tax Cuts
03/14/97 News Release Concord Analysis Gives High Marks to House "Blue Dog" Budget Plan
03/14/97 Position Paper Analysis of "Blue Dog" Democratic Coalition Budget
03/12/97 Statement Concord Joins "Blue Dogs" in Calling for
Bipartisan Consensus on CPI Adjustment
03/04/97 News Release Concord Urges Congress, President to Begin Work on a Plan to Balance the Budget by 2002
02/26/97 News Release Concord Hails "Blue Dog" Budget as Credible Plan for Reaching Balance by 2002
02/26/97 Statement Statement by Martha Phillips, Executive Director, At Center for Budget and Policy Priorities Press Conference
Releasing Report on the Effect of Tax Cuts
02/24/97 Analysis The Balanced Budget Amendment and Social Security
02/07/97 Issue Brief President Clinton's Budget for FY1998-2002
02/03/97 News Release Concord Coalition: 10 Criteria for Grading Balanced Budget Plans
02/03/97 Analysis 10 Criteria for How Budget Plans Measure Up
12/20/96 Analysis Cost of Living Adjustments Should Be Modified to Accurately Measure Inflation
12/20/96 Issue Brief Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment
12/20/96 Statement Amend our Constitution To Require a Balanced Federal Budget
12/14/96 News Release Concord Releases First Quarterly Deficit Report
12/06/96 Analysis Quarterly Deficit Report, Vol.1, No.1
11/26/96 Statement Statement by Martha Phillips, Executive Director Press Conference At Center for Budget and Policy Priorities Announcing Release of the New Study: "Bearing Most of the Burden"
10/28/96 News Release The FY 1996 Deficit: Good News and Bad News
10/15/96 New York Times Ad Presidential Debate: Rarely Asked and Never Really Answered
09/13/96 Analysis

Supply Side Tax Cuts: Issue Analysis and Background Information

09/06/96 Issue Brief A Critical Evaluation of Clinton and Dole Balanced Budget Plans
08/25/96 New York Times Ad Voters Beware: Part II
08/04/96 New York Times Ad It's Too Early For Christmas
07/19/96 Analysis Line of the Week
03/01/96 Analysis Ten Questions Voters Should Ask the Candidates

 


   

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