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Last Thursday, Congressman Reid Ribble invited The Concord Coalition to host a panel of experts on Capitol Hill to talk with congressional staffers gearing up for the annual budget process. (more…)

The nation’s current fiscal path threatens to leave future generations of Americans with less opportunity and reduced prosperity, according to a staff memorandum in advance of a timely House hearing today on the consequences of a large and rising federal…

The economic recovery and some steps by elected officials have reduced deficits over the past few years. But they will soon rise again and Washington has done little to deal with the key drivers of long-term budget shortfalls: an aging…

A bad idea in both President Obama’s Fiscal 2015 budget and Ways and Means Chair Dave Camp’s (R-Mich.) tax reform plan is to use one-time revenue from changes to the corporate tax system to shore up the Highway Trust Fund.Unless…

The House has passed a bill to reform Medicare payments to providers but doomed the legislation by attaching a 5-year delay in the Affordable Health Care’s individual mandate. A dozen Democrats joined the Republican majority in approving the bill Friday…

A bipartisan plan in the Senate to extend emergency unemployment benefits could provide badly needed assistance for individuals and avoid a dampening effect on the economy. Unfortunately, the proposed financing of the 5-month extension is flawed.Sponsors say the legislation would…

The latest Financial Report of the U.S. Government shows that despite recent lower deficits, long-term fiscal policy remains on an unsustainable course.The annual report, released by the Department of the Treasury, says that despite cuts to discretionary spending and increased…

President Obama’s budget for Fiscal 2015 includes new proposals that would exceed the discretionary spending caps that he and Congress approved only months ago. This would set a bad precedent for ignoring budget caps.The Ryan-Murray agreement in December set discretionary…