Publications
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…
Washington (Feb. 6, 2018) – Biennial budgeting has been suggested for decades as a potential reform that would help alleviate many of the ills within the broken congressional budgeting…
Gov. Jerry Brown’s annual budgets have become familiar affairs. During his last two terms in office, Brown routinely offered a budget plan that broke spending records, but also was designed to…
The following op-ed was co-authored by Joshua Huder, senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Government Affairs Institute.
One rare point of consensus across the ideological spectrum is that…
Congress is running out of time to fund the federal government for the upcoming fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
In July, the House of Representatives passed four appropriations bills bundled…
President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposal includes significant cuts across numerous government agencies and programs, but it calls for an increase in funding for the White…