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Statement by Robert Greenstein on the Congressional Budget Office’s New Long-Term Budget Forecast
December 13, 2007
The new Congressional Budget Office report shows that rising health care costs are the largest driver of the nation’s long-term budget problems. But CBO’s projections also indicate that the costs of making expiring tax cuts — such as those enacted in 2001 and 2003 … -
Statement by Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, in Response to President Bush’s Veto of The Children’s Health Insurance Bill
December 12, 2007
With today’s veto, the President again struck down legislation that would do precisely what he promised in his 2004 re-election campaign — “lead an aggressive effort to enroll millions of poor children who are eligible but not signed up for government health insurance programs.… -
Statement: Robert Greenstein on the President's Veto of the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill
November 13, 2007
We find it stunning for the President to reject a $5 billion increase for education, medical research and other priorities as unaffordable, while insisting that Congress finance the $51 billion cost of AMT relief through higher deficits instead of by closing tax loopholes exploited by multi-millionaires. The President’s action … -
Statement by Nicholas Johnson, Director of the State Fiscal Project, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, on The Maryland Senate Budget and Taxation Committee’s Tax Bill
November 7, 2007
The tax bill passed by the Maryland Senate Budget and Taxation Committee is a disappointing step backwards from Governor O'Malley’s tax reform proposal. It bows to pressure from powerful corporate interests to abandon the closure of wasteful corporate tax loopholes. … -
Press Release: Joint Statement on the Need for Pay-As-You-Go Discipline
October 30, 2007
Issued Jointly With The four organizations joining in this statement have come together on a number of occasions in the past to express their concern about the threat that chronic deficits pose, and their support for Pay-As-You-Go rules (PAYGO) to help prevent the deficit situation from becoming worse. (See, for example, the statement of March 21, 2007 … -
Statement by Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, on New SCHIP Legislation
October 25, 2007
Congressional negotiators have made significant changes in the SCHIP legislation President Bush vetoed in order to address key concerns raised by critics. Rather than welcome these changes, the Administration appears to be escalating its distortions of what the new bill … -
Statement by Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Bill
October 18, 2007
We are encouraged to see two leaders on climate change taking this important step to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The bill from Senators Lieberman and Warner is a significant step forward in climate-change policy. It falls short, however, of meeting the crucial goal of … -
Statement by Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, on New Congressional SCHIP Agreement
September 21, 2007
Today’s agreement would extend health coverage to several million low-income uninsured children, a major accomplishment. Contrary to White House rhetoric, the bulk of the children who would gain coverage are poor and near-poor children who are uninsured, not … -
Statement by Robert Greenstein on the 2006 Census Bureau Data on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance
Revised August 31, 2007
The new Census figures are disappointing for the fifth year of an economic recovery —showing a significant decline in poverty for people over 65 but no significant decline in poverty for children or adults aged 18 to 64, and only a modest improvement in median income. In 2006, the poverty rate … -
Statement by Nicholas Johnson, Director of the State Fiscal Project, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, on the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Survey of Fiscal Conditions
August 9, 2007
Today’s NCSL budget update should serve as a yellow flag to any states considering new tax cuts, which a number of states have enacted in recent months. State tax revenues aren’t keeping pace with the cost of providing services. Instead, many states are relying on past years’ surplus funds to balance their budgets, a sign of … -
Statement by James Horney, Director of Federal Fiscal Policy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, on OMB’s Mid-Session Review
Revised July 13, 2007
Today’s increase in estimated federal revenues for the current year, which the Administration says shows its tax cuts are boosting economic growth, isn’t surprising and doesn’t really say anything about the effects of the tax cuts on the economy. Large mid-year increases in … -
Statement by Robert Greenstein on CBO Report on SCHIP
May 10, 2007
The Congressional Budget Office today released a report analyzing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which must be reauthorized by Congress this year. Congress is now considering how to strengthen and improve the SCHIP and Medicaid programs and make further significant progress towards reducing the number of uninsured low-income children in the United States.… -
Statement by Robert Greenstein on the New Report from the Medicare Trustees
April 23, 2007
Today’s report shows why it is so important for Congress to stand up to the health insurance companies and eliminate the large overpayments Medicare is making to private health insurance companies. Those overpayments, which the insurance companies have launched a … -
Joint Statement on the Need for Pay-As-You-Go Discipline
March 21, 2007
Co-Authors Morgan Broman 202-296-5860 morgan.broman@ced.org Tristan Cohen 703-894-6222 communications@concord.org Jerry Irvine 202-986-2700 irvine@newamerica.net The four organizations joining in this statement have warned that large, chronic budget … -
Statement By Jim Horney and Robert Greenstein on the Senate Budget Committee Plan
March 14, 2007
The budget plan being unveiled today by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad represents a fundamental and important change in budget policy. In contrast to budgets of recent years that simply assumed that new entitlement spending and tax cuts would be financed by additional borrowing, … -
Statement by Robert Greenstein Regarding CBO's Preliminary Analysis of the President's 2008 Budget Request
March 2, 2007
The new CBO analysis confirms that the President’s budget is fiscally irresponsible. It finds that deficits over the next ten years will be $1.4 trillion larger under the President’s budget than if no changes in policies are made — essentially because of the … -
Statement of Robert Greenstein on Budget and Health Care Tax Issues in State of the Union
January 23, 2007
On Budget Policy In committing his Administration to a balanced budget by 2012, the President has acknowledged that deficits matter. This is progress. But there are reasons to doubt the strength of the President’s newfound interest in fiscal discipline. First, his budget is likely … -
Statement by James Horney, Director of Federal Fiscal Policy on Reinstatement of the Pay-As-You-Go Rule
January 5, 2007
Today’s House vote to reinstate the pay-as-you-go rule marks a significant and welcome first step in restoring the fiscal discipline that has been sorely lacking in Washington. During the 1990s, a similar pay-as-you-go rule proved to be an important tool in turning deficits into surpluses.…
