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With the Highway Trust Fund running on empty, the House and Senate are expected to vote this week on a two-month extension of transportation programs. The trust fund has a growing gap between spending and revenue, largely due to the…

At a forum last week on Capitol Hill hosted by The Concord Coalition and the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), experts from across the political spectrum shared their thoughts about retirement security in America. While several different policy proposals were discussed,…

While Congress has approved a budget resolution for the first time in six years, lawmakers in both parties are voicing reasonable doubts about whether it is a realistic blueprint for the years ahead. The Senate approved the 2016 budget resolution…

Calling low spending caps and congressional resistance to cost-saving reforms a “double whammy,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned last week that the military cannot carry out its strategic objectives without changes. Carter told the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee that “if…

The Senate is expected to soon follow the House in approving a single budget resolution that promises to balance the budget and substantially slow the growth of the federal debt over the next 10 years. While The Concord Coalition welcomes…

Some lawmakers are chipping away at their colleagues’ opposition to a badly needed new round of military base realignment and closures. Members of the House Appropriations Committee included language in the Military Construction/Veterans Administration funding bill that asks the Pentagon…

Republicans are hoping the House and Senate will be able to approve a concurrent budget resolution for Fiscal 2016 by the end of the week. This would be a positive step towards more orderly budgeting on Capitol Hill, although lawmakers…

The country’s fiscal and demographic challenges are so large that elected officials in both parties have a responsibility to work together to find bipartisan solutions, according to two Iowa state legislators. “At times it can seem like there is nothing…