About a hundred people in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District recently tried their hands Saturday at federal deficit reduction through The Concord Coalition’s “Principles and Priorities” exercise. U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette hosted the event at the Columbine High School in Littleton.“After…
In a congressional hearing last week, several budget experts urged lawmakers to address the unsustainable growth in the federal debt through balanced deficit-reduction measures.The experts told the House Financial Services Committee that rising medical costs and the needs of an…
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…
House Ways and Means Chair Dave Camp (R-Mich.) remarked recently that there are some similar ideas in the tax reform proposals that he and President Obama have suggested. Normally overlap between Republican and Democrat ideas is a welcome occurrence. (more…)
