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Ike Brannon talked about ways to reform the National Flood Insurance Program, which must be reauthorized by the end of September and is nearly $25 billion in debt.

Panelists talked about potential public policy responses to American companies that engage in corporate tax inversions. A corporate inversion is when a company re-incorporates abroad or merg…

Business leaders argued that low taxes are linked to economic growth. They compared tax policies and economic growth in different states, and discussed a number of studies suggesting links b…

Witnesses testified about U.S. tax credits and welfare programs, and whether the programs discouraged work and higher earnings for recipients. Iain Duncan Smith, the first sitting foreign se…

Economists told the Senate Budget Committee that they expected modest economic growth over 2012, but they all agreed that the economic recovery was fragile. They pointed to uncertainty in th…