BUDGET BULLETIN: Defense Spending, BCA Caps and OCO Funding in FY 2016 Budget
WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate Budget Committee today released its June issue of the Budget Bulletin, focused on defense spending, the Budget Control Act and overseas contingency operations (OCO) funds. The Budget Bulletin provides regular expert articles by Senate Budget Committee analysts on the issues before Congress relating to the budget, deficits, debt, and the […]
SENATE RECONCILIATION GUIDELINES TO COMMITTEES
2015 BALANCED BUDGETE RESOLUTION RECONCILIATION GUIDELINES The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for FY 2016 includes reconciliation instructions to both the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. This document provides general information for submitting reconciliation recommendations and summarizes special rules and procedures that govern the contents and consideration of […]
Budget Committee to Hold PA Field Hearing on June 8 to Focus on Crime Victims Fund
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) will preside at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee in Southeast Pennsylvania regarding his legislation to restore fairness to the Crime Victims Fund. The hearing will be held on Monday, June 8 at 10 am at the Villanova University School of Law in Radnor Township. […]
May Budget Bulletin: Highway Trust Fund Deadline Looms
WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate Budget Committee today released its May issue of the Budget Bulletin, focused on the looming Highway Trust Fund deadline. The Budget Bulletin will provide regular expert articles by committee analysts on the issues before Congress relating to the budget, deficits, debt, and the economy. Read the full Senate Budget Bulletin […]
Enzi: CBO Should Focus on Clarifying Mission, Improving OperationsEnzi: CBO Should Focus on Clarifying Mission, Improving Operations
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, wants the Congressional source for budget and economic information to remain reliable and focused. To help ensure this, Enzi called the first oversight hearing of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) since 1982 and said oversight of CBO should focus on clarifying […]
Highway Trust Fund Deadline Looms
In This Issue: Short-Term Reauthorization Effort History of Federal Highway Funding Fund’s Financial Problems Continue by John Selden, Budget and Transportation Analyst Short-Term Funding Extension: Deal or No Deal? Highway Trust Fund authorization expires on May 31, and the actual deadline for congressional passage of a reauthorization funding fix is the end of this week. […]
Sanders, Durbin Tell President Federal Workers Deserve ‘Fair Wage’
WASHINGTON, May 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led an effort today to help low-wage federal contract workers get a pay raise. Sanders, joined by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and 16 other senators, wrote President Obama with a request that he ‘lead by example’ when it comes to paying federal contract workers by providing a […]
Enzi to Hold Oversight Hearing of CBO on Tues. May 19
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, will convene a hearing on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 on oversight of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The hearing will take place at 10:30 a.m., in Room 608 of the Senate Dirksen Building. The witness at Tuesday’s hearing will be: Dr. […]
Getting serious about balancing the budget
Congress recently approved its first balanced 10-year budget since 2001, which represented an important step toward putting our country on not just another course, but a better course. This balanced budget represents a “lean in” moment for a Congress under new management, to confront rapidly growing deficits borne from our government’s habitual overspending, which plagues America and its taxpayers.
Congress Finally Serious About Balancing Budget
This balanced budget represents a Congress under new management, confronting rapidly growing deficits borne from our government’s habitual overspending, which plagues America and its taxpayers.