#Congress

WASHINGTON - The Concord Coalition said today that the Senate should not vote on final passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill until it has found a way to close the $256 billion of deficits between 2021 and 2031 that the…

Flags fly at half-staff in Washington, D.C. this week as members of the House, Senate, and their staff mourn the sudden passing of United States Senator Michael B. Enzi, a four-term Republican from Gillette, Wyoming. Senator Enzi was a…

To prevent their agenda from stalling, President Biden and congressional Democrats  must secure two major policy victories before recessing for the upcoming month-long district work period: (1) complete negotiations on a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and pass…

Washington -  Today, the Congressional Budget Office released a topline summary of its much-anticipated update to the 2021 budget baseline. The previous installment from CBO was published in February, prior to enactment of the $1.8 trillion American Rescue Plan…

Like the boy who cried wolf, the political media has declared this to be “Infrastructure Week” in the halls of Congress…again. The president has been abroad meeting with leaders of NATO, the EU, the G-7 and Russia, but term…

The Concord Coalition today expressed disappointment that President Biden’s first budget, covering Fiscal Years 2022 through 2031, will produce annual deficits in excess of $1 trillion for each of those years and increase the debt as a share of…

Earlier this week the US Census Bureau released the “Apportionment Results” from the latest decennial census conducted in 2020.[1] These results provide a count of the resident population for the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as…

This week, President Biden continued to roll out an ambitious policy agenda with release of the American Families Plan (AFP), described as “an investment in our children and our families.” Major new initiatives in the plan include universal preschool for…