The House Appropriations Committee will meet later this week to approve allocations for the 12 annual spending bills. These allocations, known as 302(b)s, provide broad structure for each of the appropriations subcommittees, but do not offer details for how each bill’s total is to be divided among departments and agencies. read more...
Unauthorized Immigrants, by the Numbers
As of 2010, just over 40 million people living in the United States were born in another country, and of those, an estimated 11 million came here illegally. That’s down from a peak of 12 million in 2007. read more...
State Tax Systems Vary Widely
The five states with no general sales tax (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon) rely on a variety of revenue sources to fund their spending programs. Alaska gets a full 82 percent of its revenue from severance taxes on natural resources, while two-thirds of Oregon’s revenue comes from individual income taxes, the most of any state. read more...
Breaking Down the Senate Gun Vote
The Senate voted last week on a series of nine amendments to gun legislation, rejecting all but two and leaving the underlying legislation (S. 649) with no clear path forward. read more...
House, Senate and President’s Budget Compared
Last month, we compared the House and Senate budget resolutions against baseline projections. Now that President Barack Obama has released his own budget, we’ve updated our deficit chart to include the effects of his proposals and added an interactive component. read more...
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