New House Members Stress Importance of PAYGO
A group of ten new Democratic members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to House committee chairs on Wednesday urging them to better...
Budget Process and Rules
Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Updated 8/7/2019: The House passed an agreement to raise the discretionary spending caps by $160 billion each year for FY 2020 and FY 2021 and...
David Walker: It is time to confront fiscal failure
David Walker is a former Comptroller General of the United States (head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office) and past board member of the...
Hearing Recap: Fixing a Broken Budget and Spending Process – Perspectives of Two Former Chairmen
The Senate Budget Committee began a series of hearings on reforming the budget process on May 15. The first hearing, “Fixing a Broken Budget and...
WATCH: Conrad and Gregg Testify Before Senate Budget Committee
Two former Senate Budget chairmen are testifying today before the Senate Budget Committee on the failures of the current budget process and the...
Last Year Was the Only Where Congress Did Not Vote On a Budget
Last year was a historically bad year for the Congressional budget process. Since 1976, it was the first time that neither the Senate or House voted...
Maya MacGuineas: How to Keep the Government Running When Lawmakers Fail To Do Their Job
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an ...
Ernst, Lankford, and Perdue Introduce The "No Budget, No Recess" Act
Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), along with Senators Lankford (R-OK) and Perdue (R-GA), today introduced the "No Budget, No Recess" Act." The legislation...
Budget Changes in Proposed House Rules
House Democrats are proposing a package of rules to govern the House of Representatives in the 116th Congress. The package contains many...
JSC Markup Amendment Tracker
November 30 Note: The Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform was unable to advance its legislation out of committee...