Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Updated 12/24/2019: Congress did not complete action on appropriations before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, although lawmakers enacted...
Budget Process and Rules
PAYGO Tracker: FY 2020
The first rule of getting out of a hole is to stop digging it deeper. Yet with deficits projected to exceed $1 trillion this fiscal...
Burchett, Case, and Womack Introduce RAFT Act
One way to begin addressing our unsustainable fiscal situation is to set fiscal goals, which could come in the form of debt targets. A new...
Enzi-Whitehouse Budget Process Bill Includes Important Reforms
The Senate Budget Committee recently marked up and reported bipartisan legislation to reform the budget process. The Bipartisan Congressional Budget...
Letter to Senate Budget Committee: Advance Bipartisan Budget Improvements
Below is a letter sent today from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas to Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike...
Fair and Smart Budget Reforms Deserve Vote
For Immediate Release
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) and committee member Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)...
The Prevent Government Shutdowns Act Will Not Cost $12.6 Trillion
The Prevent Government Shutdowns Act (PGSA) would establish an automatic continuing resolution (auto-CR) to prevent shutdowns and would put into...
Enzi's Proposals Would Improve the Budget Process
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has developed a series of draft budget process reforms. As we’ve explained before, the current...
Representatives Rice, Barr Introduce Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution
Last week, Representatives Kathleen Rice (D-NY) and Andy Barr (R-KY) introduced a bipartisan bill to make it harder for Congress to ignore the...
New House Members Stress Importance of PAYGO
A group of ten new Democratic members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to House committee chairs on Wednesday urging them to better...