Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: Better Budget Process Initiative

There is a growing consensus that the budget process is broken. The Better Budget Process Initiative will put forward specific options to reform and improve the budget process in a wide range of areas, including increasing focus the on long-term fiscal outlook, improving the process for dealing with the debt limit, strengthening statutory budget enforcement, revising the content and structure of the budget resolution, moving to biennial budgeting, and addressing treatment of tax expenditures in the budget process. Click here to visit the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's page for the 'Better Budget Process Initiative.' 
 

Papers: 

• 6/27/18 - The Better Budget Process Initiative: Recommendations for the JSC
   
• 3/13/17 - The Better Budget Process Initiative: Setting the Benchmark: Reforms to Budget Baseline Rules
   
• 8/11/16 - The Better Budget Process Initiative: Senate Budget Procedures - Prospects for Reform
   
• 4/14/16 - The Better Budget Process Initiative: Strengthening the Budget Resolution
   
• 6/25/15 - The Better Budget Process Initiative: Strengthening Statutory Budget Enforcement
   
• 3/13/15 - The Better Budget Process Initiative: Improving the Debt Limit
   
• 1/23/15 - The Better Budget Process Initiative: Improving Focus on the Long Term
   
• 7/14/14 - The Budget Act at 40: Time for a Tune Up?