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To allow federal agencies to continue operating through Dec. 18, Congress last week approved another continuing resolution. The House approved the measure 239-178 and the Senate gave it unanimous consent. President Obama signed it into law on Saturday.A new continuing…

Some people on both ends of the political spectrum have criticized the recommendations of the President’s fiscal commission as well as other bipartisan deficit-reduction plans such as the one recently unveiled by the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force.…

On Monday President Obama announced a “framework for a bipartisan agreement” on extending the Bush tax cuts for two years, extending unemployment benefits for 13 months, and reducing the Social Security payroll tax for a year.The Concord Coalition said today…

By now we've seen a number of proposals for fiscal sustainability from groups with very different perspectives. (more…)

As the country awaits the final recommendations of the President's fiscal commission, it is worth noting that several other substantive deficit-reduction plans have been released in recent months.The plans offer a wide range of revenue, spending and budget-process options developed…

The President’s bipartisan fiscal commission faces a deadline Wednesday to make recommendations to Congress on how to cut deficits in the next few years and also deal with long-term structural problems in the federal budget.President Obama created the National Commission…

Fiscal experts who spoke at The Concord Coalition’s Economic Patriots Dinner last week warned that rising federal debt could produce serious financial crises earlier than many people think. “We are on the cusp of real danger and real risk,” said…

When a panel of fiscal experts took the stage at The Concord Coalition’s annual Economic Patriots Dinner last week, nobody was expecting a lot of happy talk about the federal debt. But the immediate sense of urgency may have caught…