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Negotiations over the year-end “fiscal cliff” and federal budget reform continued early this week, with President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner meeting Sunday afternoon but offering the public no details of the discussion.In the last two weeks the administration…


The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Monday issued the fall update of its long-term fiscal outlook, underscoring the need for a more sustainable fiscal path in Washington.As in the past, the GAO presents two different simulations: the Baseline Extended, which…


The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) on Monday released an update of the broad plan for fiscal reform that its Debt Reduction Task Force recommended in late 2010. The update, like the original version, takes what the task force describes as…


As the President and Congress attempt to reach an agreement on the “fiscal cliff,” a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report reminds policymakers that another deadline is approaching -- the statutory limit on federal debt. This is the maximum amount…


Democrats and Republicans have exchanged formal budget proposals in recent days as they continue to joust over tax increases, spending cuts and how to avoid the year-end “fiscal cliff” that could throw the country into another recession.The fiscal cliff is…


Washington officials are sending conflicting signals over talks between the White House and congressional leaders to avoid the fiscal cliff while also moving the country forward on long-term deficit-reduction.President Obama talked by phone with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate…


Prospects for constructive budget talks between President Obama and congressional leaders seem to have brightened after an initial meeting at the White House late last week. The signals that came out of that meeting were “very good,” according to Concord…


The nation this week mourned former U.S. Senator Warren B. Rudman, a tireless champion of responsible federal budget policies and a founding co-chairman of The Concord Coalition.President Obama called Rudman, who died Monday night at age 82, “one of our…


Advocates of fiscal reform are reiterating their calls for bipartisan cooperation and compromise in the wake of national elections that left Democrats in control of the White House and the Senate, and Republicans in control of the House.“The status-quo election…


Young people around the country have voiced growing interest in the debate over the federal budget and fiscal reform. That’s appropriate because they have so much at stake. (more…)


The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has once again warned lawmakers of the potential economic damage of failing to act on the “fiscal cliff” -- the combination of automatic spending cuts and expiring tax cuts scheduled to begin in January.If these…


Example isn’t the main thing in influencing others – it is the only thing. – Albert Schweitzer Increasingly alarmed by the nation’s deteriorating fiscal outlook and the failure of our political system to produce timely, common sense solutions, some state…

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