Office of Management and Budget

Office of Management and Budget

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Senate Finance Pushes for SCHIP Expansion in Budget Bill

From:  public.cq.com
Senate Finance Committee leaders are urging colleagues in charge of drafting the chamber’s fiscal 2008 budget resolution to include funding for expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The budget plan also should fund expanded efforts to enroll low-income Medicare beneficiaries in the program’s prescription drug benefit and to protect rural areas from underpayment by Medicare, committee chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a “views and... Read Full Story

P0wn'd: those who think defense spending went through the roof

Linked from http://hlime.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/p0wnd-those-who-think-us-defense-spending-has-gone-through-the-roof/ --- Read Full Story

Tilting at Widmills on Pay-as-You-Go?

From:  public.cq.com
A new front opened up last week on the budget enforcement wars in the House as Georgia Republican Tom Price tried to expand budget pay-as-you-go rules to a new venue — authorization bills. Read Full Story

New Estimates Give Critics of Bush Health Plan More Ammo

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A financial analysis of President Bush’s fiscal 2008 budget gave new ammunition Friday to opponents of the administration’s plan to change the current tax treatment of employer-provided health care insurance. Read Full Story
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