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Last week, I testified at the House Budget Committee hearing on “The Best Metric to Reverse the Curse: A 3% Deficit-to-GDP Path to Fiscal Sustainability” along with Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Jonathan Burks, executive vice president for economic and health policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, and Jared Bernstein, Ph.D., […]
Members of Congress and their advisors are creative. They can figure out better ways to prevent, deter, and prosecute misuse of taxpayer funds. How tragic, then, that members have limited legislative opportunities to spread their wings.
AFP senior fellow Kurt Couchman’s statement for a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on potential shutdown impacts.
On January 29th, Graham Owens testified in front of the Missouri Special Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs on HB 2559, a bill to require the general assembly to approve proposed administrative rules.
Kurt Couchman testified before the House Budget Committee on designing balanced budget amendments and related statutory budget upgrades in December 2024.
AFP Senior Fellow Kurt Couchman testified to a U.S. House Judiciary subcommittee that a well-designed BBA is part of a set of tools to help Congress budget better. This can reduce costs and increase income for Americans while getting Congress to do a better job for us.
AFP Senior Fellow Kurt Couchman testified on designing a viable balanced budget amendment and related statutes before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government on December 3, 2025.
“Oversight of the Congressional Budget Office” (“CBO”) is the subject of today’s House Budget Committee hearing. CBO exists to reduce Congress’ dependence on the executive branch for budget and economic analysis.
On October 9th, Grahams Owens testified in front of the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform and Federal Affairs and the Assembly Committee on Government Operations, Accountability and Transparency.
