…the Congressional Budget Office to note that there had been no public accounting of how that money was being spent. Adriel Orozco of the American Immigration Council reports that while…
…but then he quickly adds, making a face, that’s only under the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring rules, implying that they’re silly constraints every Fox News viewer would agree are ridiculous…
by Linda Beale Barney Frank and the need for a risk-based bank fee That post about the McCain-Paul environmental devastation and revenue decimation bill (somehow mistakenly given the label of…
…trust fund, what happens is, precisely, nothing — the program has the funds it needs to operate, without need for any Congressional action. Alternatively, you can think about Social Security…
…“grand bargain.” Woodward’s piece is labeled opinion. But it is in fact not opinion; it is bald representation of fact. In other words, it is standard journalism reportage. Except for…
New America points us to Pell Grant cost projections: The Congressional Budget Office this week released updated cost projections for the Pell Grant program – and the estimates show an…
by Linda Beale GOP didn’t like the study on impact of tax cuts on economic growth The Congressional Research Service has long been respected as a non-partisan research organization that…
Various congressional representatives held town hall meetings recently, and the news channels and print media were abuzz with the lively give-and-take, including shouting matches. See, e.g., House G.O.P. Members Face…
…As the Congressional Budget Office has said (pdf), since Medicare is cheaper than private insurance, beneficiaries will see “higher premiums in the private market for a package of benefits similar…
…for the majority of Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance. That’s the sobering takeaway from testimony Thursday by Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf. Elmendorf’s preliminary conclusions were based on a…