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Committee Paper Analyzes Budget Process Reform Ideas

Sep 6, 2016

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,…

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‘Dynamic Scoring’ Likely to Add Uncertainty to Budget Process

Jan 6, 2015

The House of Representatives is expected to approve a new rule requiring the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to incorporate the estimated macroeconomic effects of major legislation into their official scores. This process, often…

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Concord Executive Director Testifies in Favor of Biennial Budgeting

Jun 25, 2014

Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby told a House subcommittee last week that switching to a two-year budget cycle would make time for better congressional oversight, improve long-term planning and help lawmakers focus on broad fiscal reforms.The testimony came…

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The Budget Conference: Low Expectations But Great Opportunities

Oct 30, 2013

Given the acrimonious political environment and the wide discrepancy between the House and Senate budgets, the conference committee now scheduled to report by Dec.13 begins its work with low expectations. However, if the committee approaches its task with flexibility and…

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It’s Time To Raise and Reform the Statutory Debt Limit

Jan 14, 2013

I. Introduction Federal borrowing is once again near the statutory debt limit. At the end of last year, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner notified Congress that the $16.394 trillion limit had been reached and that his department would begin…

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Former Lawmakers Encourage ‘Gang of Six’

May 17, 2011

Efforts by the bipartisan “Gang of Six” in the Senate to forge a comprehensive budget deal have received vigorous support from members of The Concord Coalition's Board of Directors who have previously served in Congress.“The cooperative approach taken by the…

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Process Reform As Deficit Reduction: A First Step, But No Substitute for Policy

May 3, 2011

As the President and Congress consider deficit reduction options and an increase in the debt limit, budget process proposals have recently become popular on Capitol Hill. (more…)

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Ryan’s Budget Squeeze

Apr 12, 2011

Under Paul Ryan’s budget plan, the country’s three big entitlement programs – Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid – would make up a larger share of non-interest federal spending than they would under the budget President Obama proposed earlier this year.It…

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House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s Dilemma

Mar 23, 2011

* Updated based on the CBO Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget released on March 18 As the new chairman of the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan faces a daunting task in producing a budget resolution that satisfies the policy goals…

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Let’s Try to Wrap It Up

Mar 15, 2011

Appropriations remain on the agenda this week as Congress considers yet another short-term continuing resolution (CR). A new CR is necessary to prevent a government shutdown when the current one expires this Friday.After the Senate last week rejected both a…

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The President’s FY 2012 Budget: Pressing the Pause Button

Feb 22, 2011

President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2012 budget is not a bold policy proposal. It is an oddly complacent budget for a situation that requires anything but complacency.Faced with a growing chorus of warnings from official and unofficial sources that we are…

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New House Rules Clear Path for New Deficits

Jan 11, 2011

After John Boehner (R-OH) was formally elected speaker of the House of Representatives last week, the first order of business was approving rules to govern the House during the 112th Congress. The House quickly adopted a rules package making several…

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Committee Paper Analyzes Budget Process Reform Ideas

‘Dynamic Scoring’ Likely to Add Uncertainty to Budget Process

Concord Executive Director Testifies in Favor of Biennial Budgeting

The Budget Conference: Low Expectations But Great Opportunities

It’s Time To Raise and Reform the Statutory Debt Limit

Former Lawmakers Encourage ‘Gang of Six’

Process Reform As Deficit Reduction: A First Step, But No Substitute for Policy

Ryan’s Budget Squeeze

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s Dilemma

Let’s Try to Wrap It Up

The President’s FY 2012 Budget: Pressing the Pause Button

New House Rules Clear Path for New Deficits

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