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The Congressional Budget Office has released 30-year projections that underscore the need for presidential and congressional candidates to offer credible plans for comprehensive budget reform. “Americans like to think we put a high priority on strengthening the country and looking…

Rep. Jim Renacci (R-Ohio) has introduced a measure to require annual fiscal reports from the U.S. comptroller general to a joint session of Congress. Renacci was joined by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers who are co-sponsoring the bill. Robert…

Senators last week continued to struggle with Fiscal 2017 spending bills, with heated disputes over gun control measures, Planned Parenthood and funding levels to fight the Zika virus throwing appropriations work off-track. The House, meanwhile, was on an extended July…

The federal deficit is rising. Social Security and Medicare need repairs, as does the tax code. Federal domestic investments are being squeezed and the nation’s debt is on an unsustainable course. Yet so far the presidential candidates have not said…

The congressional budget process has run into even more trouble, with partisan rancor over guns and a sit-down protest by Democrats leading the House last week to start its July 4 recess early -- despite the tight time schedule Congress…

The 2016 reports from the Social Security and Medicare trustees confirm again that these critical programs are on unsustainable paths and will put increasing pressure on the rest of the federal budget in the years ahead. “The trustees do not…

House lawmakers approved defense appropriations legislation last week that would use a war-funding gimmick to circumvent spending limits that were agreed to just last fall. The appropriations bill, which passed 282-138, follows defense policy legislation that the House approved last…

With Congress already struggling to pass annual appropriations bills in a timely fashion this year, contentious gun debates sparked by last week’s mass shooting in Orlando have added further complications. On Monday the Senate rejected four competing gun-related measures --…