Publications
July 10, 2019
Dr. Phillip Swagel Congressional Budget Office
Ford House Office Building, Fourth Floor Washington, DC 20515
Dear Dr. Swagel:
Congratulations on your…
From Federal News Network:
Budgets have always been about values. That’s true for both companies and governments. But the federal budgeting process has, in the view of Philip Wallach, senior…
To: The Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress
From: Marian Currinder, Senior Fellow, R Street Institute
Reform: Remove…
The Trump administration’s new budget is fake news. That isn’t because it fails to live up to its grandiose title: “A Budget for a Better America: Promises Kept. Taxpayers First.” Nor is…
Re: FY 2020 302(b) Allocation for the Legislative Branch
Dear Chairwoman Lowey, Ranking Member Granger, and members of the committee:
On behalf of the undersigned bipartisan group of civil…
This past week, Congress held another hearing on budget reform. Two former budget committee chairmen, Leon Panetta and David Obey, both testified. They lamented the current state of congressional…
Legbranch cited in The Government Affairs Institute:
The number of appropriations bills passed per year declined in the 1990s, but the most precipitous drop has come in the wake of 2010, with…
In this Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group session, the group takes stock of the broken congressional budget process and the likelihood of its reform with budget expert guests, Maya MacGuineas…
Biennial budgeting has been suggested for decades as a potential reform that would help alleviate many of the ills within the broken congressional budgeting process. This policy paper takes stock of…