Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Budget Process

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Apr 14, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Burchett and Case Reintroduce RAFT Act

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Jan 22, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Reconciliation 101

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May 4, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

Updated Appropriations 101

Note: We have updated this paper, please see the latest Appropriations 101 . What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by...
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Apr 29, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Budget Conference

With the budget conference complete, it is now up to each chamber of Congress to pass the FY 2016 concurrent budget resolution . We've already...
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Apr 27, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Health Care| Budget Process

Update: Fiscal Speed Bumps

Congress sped through this year's second and third " Fiscal Speed Bumps " in March, ignoring the return of the statutory debt limit (though the hard...
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Apr 22, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

How the House Trade Bills Abide by PAYGO

Big economic policy news came last week when lawmakers announced a bipartisan agreement (H.R. 1890) to revive Trade Promotion Authority in order to...
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Apr 16, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

CRFB Publishes Analysis of Budget Process in the FY 2016 Budget Resolutions

With the House and Senate preparing to go to conference to work out the differences between their budget resolutions, we published a paper Tuesday...
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Apr 14, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

A Budget Conference - Now What?

The House and Senate will soon appoint a formal conference committee to iron out differences between their two budgets, even though press reports...
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Apr 14, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Budget Process in the FY 2016 Budget Resolutions

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Apr 13, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Budget Process

SGR Bill Triggers Several Rule Violations

We have described at length the fiscal irresponsibility of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) reform bill (H.R. 2) working its way through Congress...
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Apr 10, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Budget Process

PAYGO or No-Go: An Easy Way for Congress to Improve the SGR Bill

There's a simple way to make the $141 billion House-passed Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) bill more fiscally responsible: don't...
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