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Bipartisan legislation to address waste and duplication in federal programs was introduced last week in the House and Senate. Sponsored by Senators Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) as well as Representatives Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), and…

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad has proposed a sweeping fiscal reform plan based on the recommendations of a bipartisan majority of the President’s fiscal commission. The Concord Coalition applauds Conrad’s proposal, as it did a recent bipartisan plan in…

The annual report issued Monday by the trustees of Medicare and Social Security underscores the unsustainable nature of both programs in their current forms. The troubling data in the report also demonstrate the need for comprehensive fiscal reform as soon…

As today’s federal tax filing deadline approached, policymakers and analysts continued their debates over how to improve the U.S. tax system. A program last week at the Tax Policy Center (TPC), for example, focused on whether the rich should pay…

As a recent Chicago Tribune editorial noted, most House members chose last month to “put partisanship above progress on the nation’s debt” by supporting budget plans favored only by one party or the other. But 38 lawmakers voted for bipartisan…

On Capitol Hill this week, several House committees are scheduled to begin making some of the policy decisions necessary to comply with the House budget resolution.To replace savings from the automatic cuts required by last year’s Budget Control Act, the…

On today's federal tax filing deadline, it just so happens that Congress and the Administration have been thinking of different ways to raise tax burdens on the rich. (more…)

It’s getting to be that time again when the Social Security and Medicare Trustees release their annual report on the programs’ 75-year outlook. (more…)