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Projections by the Congressional Budget Office make it clear that future choices about tax policy -- and particularly about expiring tax cuts -- will be a critical factor in the country’s fiscal outlook for many years to come.Republicans counted it…

In the week since President Obama signed the debt limit deal into law, stock prices have become highly volatile, Standard & Poor’s dropped its U.S. credit rating a notch below AAA, and political maneuvering began over the special congressional committee…

Members of the new Congressional Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction will have a threshold decision to make: Do they want to take their mandate seriously?If the answer is yes, they will likely have to make decisions in the public interest…

The Comeback America Initiative has released a report with illustrative options to put the country on a sustainable fiscal path under two different scenarios. The report, "Restoring Fiscal Sanity,” includes options on domestic and defense spending, entitlement reform and tax…

Underscoring the high stakes involved for younger Americans, student body presidents from more than 120 colleges around the country have called on President Obama and congressional leaders to set partisan politics aside, raise the federal debt ceiling and agree on…

By Ryan SchoenikeThe debate over our nation’s finances has now reached what seems to be common place in Washington. As our country sits on the verge of default, both parties have retreated to their partisan foxholes, only coming out to throw…

As congressional hearings last week made clear, some lawmakers in both parties continue to chafe at a key cost-control element in last year’s health care legislation: an advisory panel that several years from now could help curb excessive Medicare spending.Critics…