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Congress Budget Fail: The Sequestration Transparency Act
Many Republicans and Democrats on Capital Hill last week celebrated the passage of the Sequester Transparency Act, the bill that allegedly corrects one of the more egregious mistakes with the spending...
View ArticleSequester Report Due September 6 Won't Help Congress
As expected, President Obama signed the "Sequestration Transparency Act" (H.R.5872) on Tuesday, so the report to Congress that supposedly details what will be cut by how much if the sequester occurs on...
View ArticlePhil Gramm Doesn't Know Squat About His Own Budget Process
You would think that Phil Gramm -- the former Republican Texas senator who was one of the authors of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget process from the late 1980s -- would know how the law bearing his...
View ArticleYes, The CR Can Be Used To Stop The Sequester
The question I've been getting most often since House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) sort of announced an agreement on a six-month continuing resolution for...
View ArticleAs Expected, OMB Sequester Report Shows Little, Means Nothing
As I expected and warned everyone when legislation was enacted requiring it in early August, the report released by the Office of Management and Budget last Friday with the details of the spending cuts...
View ArticleGOP And The Sequester: Disingenuous, Naive & Misinformed
As I posted on March 1, the sequester -- the across-the-board spending cuts ordered by the Budget Control Act-- would only become real for most voters when the predictions of the impact of the...
View ArticleSyria Is A Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card For #cliffgate
It wasn't too long yesterday after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced his support for the president's position on Syria that the blogosphere erupted with speculation that the White House had...
View ArticleExpect Lots Of Budget Smoke, Little Fire Over Next 2+ Months
House and Senate budget conferees will formally get together again this week. This will be their first meeting since the ceremonial opening session on October 30 featured nothing more than politically...
View ArticleNuclear Option Increases Chances Of Another Shutdown, Sequestration
By changing it's rules yesterday to prevent filibusters on executive branch and judicial nominees (other than the Supreme Court) -- the so-called nuclear option -- the Senate further complicated a...
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