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CRFB's Ed Lorenzen Testifies to Congress on SSDI

This afternoon, Ed Lorenzen , Senior Advisor for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, will testify in front of the Ways and Means...

Jim Kolbe and Charlie Stenholm: Congress Can't Dodge Social Security Disability Insurance Trust Fund's Approaching Insolvency

Jim Kolbe and Charlie Stenholm are former members of Congress and members of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) served...

The President’s Social Security Proposals

The President proposed last week, through his FY 2016 budget , a number of proposals to reform Social Security in small ways, including measures to...

Dispelling Common Myths in the SSDI Debate

The President's FY 2016 Budget last week proposed dealing with the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump of the exhaustion of the Social Security Disability...

Trust Fund Deadlines Are Closing In

In addition to updating budget projections , CBO's baseline also looks at the state of various government trust funds over the next ten years....

Fiscal Speed Bumps Will Keep the New Congress Busy

Although the 114th Congress is just getting settled, it will have to move quickly to address a series of deadlines with serious policy and fiscal...