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All from the Texas Tribune: - Oil Patch Schools Facing Budget Nightmare . In December 2014, the week Pam Seipp became interim superintend...

- Click here for the article .  President Obama on Tuesday sent his final annual budget proposal to a hostile Republican-led Congress, r...

This is simply offered to augment the section on budgeting - as well as foreign policy. I stumbled across it and it helps address issues ass...

I'll fill in details later. The Hill: Senate sends $1.8 trillion deal to Obama . Roll Call: Congress Sends Omnibus to Obama .

We wont be looking in depth at budgeting issues across the nation - but you might have some interest in it. State Budget Solutions is a non ...

The previous post concluded with a mention of the "doc fix." You might wonder just what that is. The best I can define it, is th...

To put our look at the recently released 2016 federal budget in context - here's a flowchart of the process. And for more detail a...

This applies to the bill making process, budgeting and public opinion. The author points out that Democrats were able to spin public opinion...

Prior to the presentation of the president's budget to Congress, the Congressional Budget Office is required to release a document proje...

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From the Washington Post . By this count there have been 17 since 1976.

Here is an argument that it has . In recent recessions, government spending has increased. Not in the current recession. Here's one fact...

The NYT provides an overview of the politics associated with the continuing resolution just passed by the US House. The one that also cuts ...

The NYT editorializes on one of the cause s of dysfunction in Congress - the fact that conservative interest groups increasingly target Repu...

Now that Syria is off the radar screen - for now - attention is turning to a more predictable crisis: the looming government shut down. This...

For this week's look at the US economy and the budget: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . the US GDP at the end of 2012 was ...

A counter-intuitive read . We don't like deficits, but do we really know enough to say why? And are they really as cataclysmic as we thi...

Other than that, medical costs are pretty steady. Graphic from Wonkblog : The story the chart is pulled from can be found here . Here...

When 2305's start looking at the budget, we will discuss what "the budget" is and what it isn't. It is a statement declari...

This is one of those stories that gets rewritten every time spending cuts are topical. The general idea of slicing government spending is...