Romina Boccia focuses on federal spending and the national debt as director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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The new Congressional Budget Office report released today shows deficits and debt rising over the next decade, despite a short-term improvement in the 2015 budget… Read More
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President Obama talked at length about jobs, the minimum wage and salaries during his State of the Union speech. Here we look at some of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
President Obama will give his annual State of the Union address on Jan. 20. Heritage experts identified 33 policies in areas ranging from the economy… Read More
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This Tuesday, House Republicans nearly unanimously adopted new rules for the 114th Congress (H. Res. 5) which set the stage for long-overdue Social Security reforms… Read More
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The Christmas season is on, and shoppers are out in full force. This means nothing for Washington. Here, Santa Claus seems to hand out gifts… Read More
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At more than 1,600 pages, Congress’s $1.1 trillion behemoth spending bill funding almost all government agencies through September 2015 has arrived. For those keeping track,… Read More
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Germans refer to “Close of Business” as Feierabend, which literally translated means something like party night. Now some in Germany want to impose a work… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Before Congress recessed for the midterm elections, lawmakers announced plans to use the current lame-duck session to work on passing a bill called “The Achieving… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The current lame-duck session, the period between Election Day and when the new members enter Congress, is particularly important because the Republicans will take control… Read More
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This week, the Treasury Department releases the actual deficit figure for fiscal year (FY) 2014 which ended on September 30. At about half a trillion… Read More
