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Sep 27, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

FY 2022 Reconciliation Tracker

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Sep 23, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Other Spending| Budget Process

Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns

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Sep 23, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Other Spending| Budget Process

Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns

The new fiscal year (FY) will begin on October 1, 2021, and Congress has so far enacted none of the 12 appropriations bills setting discretionary...
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Sep 20, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2021 Introduced in the Senate

Recently, Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2021 (PGSA). The bill would...
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Sep 13, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

Better Targeting in Reconciliation

As lawmakers negotiate the details of their reconciliation package , they will need to scale back some of their ambitions to prevent arbitrary policy...
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Aug 13, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Reconciliation 101

Reconciliation is a special legislative process created as part of the Budget Act of 1974. It is intended to help lawmakers make the tax and...
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Aug 10, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Bipartisan House Group Sends Letter Calling for Process Reforms

A bipartisan group of ten members from the House of Representatives recently sent a letter to the Senate calling for the addition of budget process...
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Jul 30, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Fiscal State of the Nation Introduced in the Senate and House

Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Angus King (I-ME), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Mike Braun (R-IN), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Jacky Rosen (D...
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Jul 29, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

Policymakers Shouldn't Attach More Borrowing to a Debt Ceiling Increase

The debt ceiling , or the statutory limit on the total amount of debt the federal government can accrue, is set to come back on August 1 after being...
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Jul 28, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling

The federal debt ceiling will be reinstated on August 1, 2021, at around $28.5 trillion . At that point, the Treasury Department will begin using...
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Jul 22, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Kent Conrad: Congress should reinstate the 'Conrad Rule' to prevent abuse of budget reconciliation

Kent Conrad is a former senator from North Dakota, a former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and a member of the Committee for a Responsible...
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