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1998 Budget Surplus

This week's In The News looks at the 1998 budget surplus. The six resources discussed provide information about the budget surplus and suggestions on what to do with it from various quarters. The Fiscal Year 1999 budget proposal unveiled by President Clinton on February 2, 1998 showed a surplus of $9.5 billion, the first time the federal budget has been balanced in 30 years. Clinton plans to use...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/be/1998/0212
Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 1999

The US Office of Management and Budget has released the Fiscal Year 1999 Federal Budget (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] and .wk1 and .wk4 format only), which was presented to the Congress on February 2, 1998. The site provides "A Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget." More detailed information can be found in the "Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 1999," which contains the "Budget Message...

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BUDGET-1999-APP/pdf/BUDG...
Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2000

Transmitted to Congress on February 1, 1999, the FY 2000 Budget covers the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1999. At the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) site, users can view the full text of the budget and related documents in .pdf format. The latter include A Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget (also available in HTML), Analytical Perspectives, supplements, historical tables, and a...

https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/usbudg...
GOP Tax Cut Bill Passes Senate

Yesterday, the US Senate narrowly approved a $792 billion tax cut, 50-49. The bill, which was passed by the House with a vote of 221-206, would, among other things, cut all five income tax rates by one percentage point, lower capital gains rates, and eliminate death taxes on estates. The bill will not be sent to President Clinton -- who opposes the size of the cut and favors using the projected...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/1999/0806
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National Priorities Project

Nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, The National Priorities Project (NPP) has been working for the past 30 years to analyze the American government's military spending and to promote a national budget that it considers more in alignment with the priorities of everyday citizens. If the progressive politics of the NPP don't turn you off, this site offers a bounty of information on the way the...

https://www.nationalpriorities.org
Outlook for the Budget and the Economy

As part of its mandate under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the US Congressional Budget Office issues "a series of reports on the state of the economy and the budget." The latest report, released September 2, 1997 concludes that "the federal budget will come close to balance this year and will move into surplus by 2002... [and] is projected to be in virtual balance through 2007." The report...

https://www.cbo.gov/topics/budget/outlook-budget-and-economy
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Sunlight Foundation

Readers new to the Sunlight Foundation may want to begin by watching the two-minute film on the landing page (entitled "What We Do"). This national, non-partisan, nonprofit organization uses "the tools of civic tech, open data, policy analysis, and journalism" in its attempts to make the government and politics of the United States more "accountable and transparent to all." Among the many...

https://sunlightfoundation.com/
US Government Balances Budget

This week's In the News discusses the recent announcement that the US government has effectively balanced the budget for the first time in 30 years. The eleven resources discussed offer a variety of information on this topic. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently issued revised projections showing that the federal budget is effectively in the black and should remain that way in the coming...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/ss/1998/0113