Tag Archives: Office of Management and Budget

Will Congress Provide Sequester "Flexibility" for User Fees?

By Jill Wechsler | Published: April 30, 2013
Just about every federal program and affected interest group is pressing for relief from the 8% across-the-board cuts in funding imposed by the budget sequestration mandate. Recent fast action on Capitol Hill to curb personnel furloughs of air traffic controllers by the Federal Aviation Administration, though, has spurred lobbying for similar treatment across many fronts.
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Elmendorf Refuses to Go Quietly Into the Night of HCR

By Pharm Exec | Published: June 9, 2010
Guest Blog by Tom Norton of NHD Smart Communications. You can reach him at tnorton@nhdcomm.com. Amidst all the gurgling of oil last week(bad! bad! bad!), a competing thunderstorm of words erupted as Doug Elmendorf, Director of CBO, had the temerity to revisit the real costs of the new HCR law. Addressing something that, for whatever reason, [...]
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