Add to ORKGAmerica's current debt problem is the result of too much spending, not too little taxation. Mandatory or "auto-pilot" spending accounts for two-thirds of the federal budget. The Congressional Budget Office projects that by 2039 federal spending on Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and interest on the debt will outpace all revenues. The longer Congress waits to address reforms to these programs, the worse the fiscal situation will become. Social Security cannot be reformed through reconciliation, but all other mandatory programs can be. Congress should use reconciliation to begin reforming these programs now
A monumental battle over the federal budget began last year; the impasse over raising the debt ceili...
Explains how federal spending growth is driven by Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid, and other ...
On April 28, 2005, Congress approved an FY2006 budget resolution (H.Con.Res. 95) with reconciliation...
President Clinton's veto of the 1995 reconciliation bill, the largest and most ambitious such legisl...
Budget reconciliation is an optional two-step process Congress may use to assure compliance with the...
During the more than 30 years that the congressional budget process has been in effect, the Senate F...
Congress originally conceived of the budget reconciliation process as a minor fallback mechanism for...
Reconciliation is a procedure under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 by which Congress implement...
During the more than 30 years that the congressional budget process has been in effect, the Senate ...
The budget reconciliation process is one of the chief tools used by Congress during the past quarter...
The total debt of the United States (US) federal government now exceeds annual Gross Domestic Produc...
Washington is awash in red ink, and no one seems willing to make the hard choices needed to set our ...
On Thursday the House of Representatives voted to approve a budget bill that, once passed by the Sen...
The United States faces challenging budgetary prospects, as do most other OECD countries. The federa...
The budget reconciliation process is an optional procedure that operates as an adjunct to the budget...
A monumental battle over the federal budget began last year; the impasse over raising the debt ceili...
Explains how federal spending growth is driven by Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid, and other ...
On April 28, 2005, Congress approved an FY2006 budget resolution (H.Con.Res. 95) with reconciliation...
President Clinton's veto of the 1995 reconciliation bill, the largest and most ambitious such legisl...
Budget reconciliation is an optional two-step process Congress may use to assure compliance with the...
During the more than 30 years that the congressional budget process has been in effect, the Senate F...
Congress originally conceived of the budget reconciliation process as a minor fallback mechanism for...
Reconciliation is a procedure under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 by which Congress implement...
During the more than 30 years that the congressional budget process has been in effect, the Senate ...
The budget reconciliation process is one of the chief tools used by Congress during the past quarter...
The total debt of the United States (US) federal government now exceeds annual Gross Domestic Produc...
Washington is awash in red ink, and no one seems willing to make the hard choices needed to set our ...
On Thursday the House of Representatives voted to approve a budget bill that, once passed by the Sen...
The United States faces challenging budgetary prospects, as do most other OECD countries. The federa...
The budget reconciliation process is an optional procedure that operates as an adjunct to the budget...
A monumental battle over the federal budget began last year; the impasse over raising the debt ceili...
Explains how federal spending growth is driven by Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid, and other ...
On April 28, 2005, Congress approved an FY2006 budget resolution (H.Con.Res. 95) with reconciliation...