Chicago Tribune

A nonpartisan private group, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, on Tuesday summed up the future facing beleaguered taxpayers: The good news is that under provisions of current federal laws, the debt would become more manageable a few years ...

The influential Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget chimes in: "The first rule when you're in a hole is to stop digging and making the problem worse. It is also a good idea not to cover the hole with leaves and advertise it as filled.

The supercommittee, according to the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, needs to double or triple the savings "to put debt on a clear, downward path by the end of the decade." Getting that amount of deficit reduction would require ...

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says President Barack Obama's proposal to the supercommittee, despite his stated desire that it Go Big, "fails to put the debt on a clear downward path as a share of the economy" and "is ...

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says President Barack Obama's proposal to the supercommittee, despite his stated desire that it Go Big, "fails to put the debt on a clear downward path as a share of the economy" and "is ...

"We are trapped in a nasty game of chicken instead of bipartisan efforts to do the right thing for the country," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

The last message from al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to Egyptian protesters "was embarrassing because it was so out of touch and out of date," counterterrorism expert Brian Fishman of the New America Foundation told us. ...

"No," Eliza Griswold replied, "he's God's best friend." A reasonable response from a little girl who practiced reading with the Bible at the lectern and ...

... constituency bound to be angered by any attempts at reform, said Maya MacGuineas, director of fiscal policy at the New America Foundation, a think tank. ...

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a sober bunch of nonpartisan number crunchers, suggests that the panel's authority will be narrow and tepid: ...