This year has, unfortunately, provided some excellent illustrations of Congress’s dysfunction. We are currently emerging from a record-long shutdown. Senate Democrats filibustered funding in a doomed ...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday advanced its portion of Congress' reconciliation package, which includes language capping the budget of an independent federal ...
Richard Stern was Acting Director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The... The reconciliation process is ...
The threat of being kept after school if you hadn’t completed your homework was a motivator back in my high school days. Apparently, it doesn’t work on adults in Congress. Senate Majority Leader John ...
Whoever coined the term “budget reconciliation,” in crafting the 1974 Budget Reform Act, deserves an ingenious award for a brilliant paradox that accurately depicts the current process in Congress.
House GOP leaders had a brief scare last week when they had to go back and fix several pages in their mammoth budget reconciliation bill that passed before Memorial Day. That “privilege scrub” process ...
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The 119th Congress should use the budget reconciliation process to advance 12 education reforms that right-size federal involvement in K–12 and higher education. The reforms include advancing ...
The budget reconciliation package continues to dominate the agenda in Congress this week, as lawmakers are also expected to debate President Donald Trump’s weekend military strikes against Iranian ...
This is the process that Republicans are currently employing to try to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda. This process does not deal with funding the government and has nothing to do with ...
The threat of being kept after school if you hadn’t completed your homework was a motivator back in my high school days. Apparently, it doesn’t work on adults in Congress. Senate Majority Leader John ...
The threat of being kept after school if you hadn’t completed your homework was a motivator back in my high school days. Apparently, it doesn’t work on adults in Congress. Senate Majority Leader John ...