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Effective Budgeting – Part 1: Starting on Time with the President’s Budget Request and CBO’s Baseline, Americans for Prosperity, 2/2/26
Imagining Effective Federal Budgeting: Congress Can Be Much Better, Americans for Prosperity, 2/2/26
A Comprehensive Budget Can Restore Responsibility in Congress, R Street Institute, 1/22/26
Only 11% of Federal Health Subsidies are in the Appropriations Bills, Americans for Prosperity, 1/22/26
Implementing a constitutional debt limit, Americans for Prosperity, 1/21/26
President Trump’s timely budget request will help Congress succeed, Americans for Prosperity, 1/9/26
Highlights from Congressional Testimony: A Next-Generation BBA Can Unleash Congress’ Potential to Serve America Better, Americans for Prosperity, 12/4/25
Introducing the Principles-based Balanced Budget Amendment, Americans for Prosperity, 11/24/25
Instead of Docking Pay to Prevent Shutdowns, Upgrade Congress, Americans for Prosperity, 11/19/25
Power Up Representation: Budget Tools for State Legislative Excellence (one-pager), Americans for Prosperity, 11/10/25
Building Up Congress: A Pocket Guide, Americans for Prosperity, 11/6/25
SUBMIT IT Act: Put Teeth in Deadlines to Help Congress Succeed (one-pager), Americans for Prosperity, 10/24/25
A Balanced Budget Amendment Is in Democrats’ Interests, DC Journal, 10/2/25
Modernizing Federal Budgeting Starts with Preventing Shutdowns, Americans for Prosperity, 9/29/25
Well-Designed Balanced Budget Rules Support Sound Governance, Americans for Prosperity, 9/15/25
Fiscal Democracy in America: How a Balanced Budget Amendment Can Restore Sound Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, August 2025)
BBA competition in the House can rebuild broad support, AFP blog, 8/20/25
End wasteful spending now, fix the budget next, The Hill, 7/15/25
Property Tax Reform Playbook (one-pager), Americans for Prosperity, 6/26/25
Sen. Johnson’s Call for Spending Restraint Shows Need for Post-Reconciliation Plans, AFP blog, 6/23/25
Congress Must Heed Trump’s Call To Cut Wasteful Spending, Daily Caller News Foundation, 5/13/25
Block grants can reconcile state aid with health, prosperity, and federalism, AFP blog, 2/20/25
How States Can Assert Financial Freedom: Balancing the budget over the business cycle is a smart strategy, National Review, 2/11/25
Will This Lame-Duck Congress Trip The Next One Over The Fiscal Cliff? Daily Caller New Foundation, 11/1/24
Kansas Legislature can improve state budget process with these 4 changes, The Topeka Capital-Journal, 10/28/24
What is the Comprehensive Congressional Budget Act? AFP blog, 9/5/24
Congress Should Defuse the Debt Bomb in the 2025 Budget Deal, Tax Notes, 8/12/24
Congress Can Rehabilitate the Federal Government with a Comprehensive Budget, America First Policy Institute, 8/9/24
Big-spending politicians are trying to shift the blame for inflation, Washington Examiner, 7/9/24
Bidenflation Blame Game: How Big-Spending Politicians Scapegoat Business, AFP paper, 6/27/24
Empowering Committees Can Restore Congress — and Our Democracy, Ripon Forum, 6/13/24
Bottom-up filters for floor amendments in the House of Representatives, AFP blog, 5/10/24
Federal Finances Are on Thin Ice. Congress Is Catching On, Townhall.com, 3/9/24
What is the SUBMIT IT Act? AFP blog, 3/4/24
Biden Is Ignoring One Law. A New Bill Would Put A Stop To That, Daily Caller News Foundation, 2/6/24
Restoring representation: 10 ways to help congressional committees get results, AFP blog, 12/6/23
Revisiting the Balanced Budget Amendment: Toward Designs Without Defects, AFP paper, 11/9/23
What leverage? Shutdown fights don’t get results, The Hill, 9/27/23
An Interview with Kurt Couchman, The Fund for American Studies podcast, 8/31/23
Six more ways to fix the federal budget, AFP blog, 7/17/23
6 ways to overhaul the mess that is the federal budget, AFP blog, 7/10/23
What is the Responsible Budget Targets Act? AFP blog, 6/21/23
Blame outdated systems for another off-track budget season, The Hill, 4/15/23
State-inspired line-item budgets can help Congress see the big picture, AFP blog, 3/29/23
Why incremental adjustments are a better approach to automatic budget enforcement, AFP blog, 3/23/23
Structural Balance Can Help States Unleash Freedom and Reclaim Sovereignty, AFP paper, 2/7/23
Congress requires bipartisanship to reach a debt limit deal, AFP statement, 1/19/23
Congress Must Abandon Its Haphazard Status Quo Of Budgeting By Crisis, The Federalist, 12/12/22
Well-designed budget targets belong at the top of next Congress’s agenda, Washington Examiner, 12/4/22
A Next-Generation Tax and Expenditure Limitation Act, American Legislative Exchange Council model policy, 11/30/22
A debt limit deal with something for everyone, The Hill, 11/20/22
New CFRB report is a starting point for lowering inflation, reducing the debt, AFP blog, 10/31/22
Statement on Continuing Resolution and Budgeting by Crisis, AFP, 9/29/22
Better budget targets can help Congress balance near- and long-term needs, AFP paper, 9/12/22
President Biden’s sweeping student loan giveaways expose the rot in American government, AFP blog, 8/29/22
Why Social Security is in trouble and needs automatic fiscal stabilizers, AFP blog, 7/20/22
Congress’ Broken Budget System Helped Create Inflation, Discourse, 7/14/22
President Biden claims credit he didn’t earn, misses the mark on proposals, AFP blog, 6/1/22
Senator Braun leads the way back to budget sanity, NWI Times, 5/15/22
Arrington proposes a next-generation budget amendment, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 5/15/22
Government Shutdowns Have Always Been a Mistake, Real Clear Politics, 1/26/22
DoD’s biggest problems with a continuing resolution come from Congress, The Hill, 1/10/22
Organizing Congress for Budget Reforms, chapter in Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022)
Stand-alone reconciliation must end, The Hill, 12/13/21
Unified Budgets Can Help Revive Congress, AFP paper, 12/1/21
Biden’s budget agenda only pretends to be responsible, Fox News, 11/12/21
Raise the debt limit while starting to fix the budget, The Hill, 9/18/21
States show how Congress can fix a broken budget process, The Hill, 6/24/21
Effective Fiscal Rules Build on Consensus, chapter in A Fiscal Cliff: New Perspectives on the U.S. Federal Debt Crisis (Cato, 2020)