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James Lockhart, former director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (George W. Bush administration), talked about America’s fiscal burden and how to address it. This event was hosted by th…

William Hoagland talked about the debate over raising the debt limit and how the U.S. amassed $31 trillion dollars in debt.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted an event with Senate Budget Committee Chair Mike Enzi (R-WY), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and budget experts. They discussed ways…

Bipartisan Policy Center’s William Hoagland discusses the $1.37 trillion government spending deal that will be voted on in Congress this week to avoid a government shutdown.

The House Modernization of Congress Committee held a hearing on improving the budget and appropriations process in Congress. The panelists shared their views on the current state of the budg…

William Hoagland talked about the Congressional Budget Office’s (CB)) recently-released report that predicts the U.S. budget deficit will surpass $1 trillion by 2020, two years sooner than p…

William Hoagland talked about President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget proposal, which includes increased defense spending to compensate for sequestration, and Congressional Budget Office f…

The Washington Center hosted a discussion on the federal budget and the U.S. debt. A former Clinton administration budget official, and a former budget adviser to Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) t…

Fiscal policy experts talked about the federal budget and responding to fiscal uncertainty. This program was part of a Brookings Institution Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy…

Former congressional leaders talked about the process of reaching their 1990 deficit agreement that eventually helped bring the federal budget into surplus. Topics included the major leaders…

Former Senators Bob Kerrey (D-NE) and Jack Danforth (R-MO) talked about Congress and the federal budget. Twenty years ago both were members of a bipartisan commission examining Social Securi…

A former congressional staffer, two former U.S. Representatives, and President George H.W. Bush’s chief of staff talked about the process and politics of negotiating the 1990 federal budget.…

Panelists talked about the U.S. economy and the federal budget. Speakers included Jared Bernstein, former economic adviser to Vice President Biden, Maya MacGuiness of the Committee for a Res…

William Hoagland talked about the congressional budget conference, and responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. He said that while he doubted the committee could be able t…

Witnesses testified on the history of the national debt limit, negotiations between past Congresses and presidents to raise the limit, and executive branch constitutional options when the de…

Budget, legislative and business analysts examine the upcoming work of the congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, created in a recently-passed debt ceiling bill. Particip…

Participants spoke about the national debt, global economy, and fiscal policy. They focused on potential actions and ideas to reduce the size of the debt, either through spending reductions …

Former Congressional staffers and scholars talked about what goes on behind the scenes when legislation is passed. Topics included partisanship and national debt. John Hilley outlined his pr…

Economic experts talked about the possible effects of the 2004 election results on economic and tax policy during President George W. Bush’s second term. Other topics included the House-Sen…

The Woodrow Wilson Center hosted a discussion titled “Budgeting During Wartime.” Participants talked about budget priorities during wartime. Donald Wolfensberger, the Congress Project Dire…