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After failing to approve any regular appropriations bills this year, Congress must take action this week on short-term stop-gap legislation to keep the government open after Friday. Fiscal 2017 begins Saturday and Congress should have approved a dozen appropriations bills…

Lawmakers ought to have an opportunity to vote on a common-sense proposal to shift the federal government to a biennial budgeting cycle before leaving town at the end of September, Concord Coalition Government Relations Director Phil LaRue writes this week.…

Peter G. Peterson, who has spent decades focusing public attention on the nation’s unsustainable budget policies and encouraging fiscal reform, is being honored by The Concord Coalition with its 2016 Paul E. Tsongas Economic Patriot Award. Peterson “has been a…

In advance of the Oct. 4 vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, dozens of students and faculty there participated in an interactive federal budget exercise last week. It was the first in a series of programs on…

The “penny plan” to reduce spending by one cent on every dollar (one percent a year), which has been bouncing around Washington for years, got renewed attention recently from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. (more…)

Lawmakers and expert witnesses displayed bipartisan concern over the nation’s debt and some agreement on its causes, including aging demographics, at a hearing of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee last week. “The temporary decline in deficits has ended,” said former…

With the presidential election less than two months away, The Concord Coalition is urging Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to detail their proposals to put the federal government’s borrowing, spending and tax policies on a more sustainable course. “Non-partisan experts…

The House Budget Committee released a paper last week examining potential alternative options for budgeting as part of an ongoing effort to propose ideas to overhaul the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. The paper examines four alternative approaches: performance-based budgeting,…