Here's my "Fiscal Fitness" column from Roll Call.

The Checks AreComing!

TheChecks Are Coming! 

Here's this week's "Fiscal Fitness column from Roll Call.

Fiscal 2010 Budget Fight Will Make All Others Look Easy 

April 15, 2008
By Stan Collender,
Roll Call Contributing Writer
 

For the record, in 1974 I applied to law school using a picture of me in a brown crushed velvet sports jacket with huge lapels, a wide brown crushed velvet tie, a patterned shirt with a large collar, hair almost to my shoulders, and a mustache attached to my application.

Why is that important?  You'll know after you take a look at my weekly "Fiscal Fitness" column from Roll Call.

The Budget Act Was A Lot Hipper in 1974 Than It Is Today

Roll Call

April 1, 2008

What do the following have in common: the already-enacted economic stimulus, a second economic stimulus, a homeowner bailout, the Bear Sterns rescue by the Federal Reserve, and the soon-to-be-considered emergency supplemental appropriation for activities in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Here's this week's "Fiscal Fitness" column from Roll Call.

Here's this week's "Fiscal Fitness" column from Roll Call for what I hope is your reading pleasure.

Someone Please Stop Me Before I Budget Again

Roll Call

February 26, 2008 

I couldn't help myself this week.  The debate over earmarks has gotten so silly that I felt the need to devote my Roll Call column to debunking as many of the myths as I could.  If you have bought into any of this craziness...shame on you.

Earmark Debate Sounds Good, But It’s Mostly Nonsense

Here's my column from the January 29, 2008 edition of Roll Call.

Stimulus Is Get Out
Of Jail Free Card for
White House, Congress

Here's my latest "Fiscal Fitness" column from  Roll Call.

President Bush’s Budget Legacy
Already Set in Stone
Roll Call
January 22, 2008

Although it certainly wasn’t meant to be funny, I couldn’t help but laugh when I read the Jan. 14 Roll Call story “Bush May Target Earmarks.”

In case you missed the announcement, I'm no longer writing a column for NationalJournal.com. Starting today, I'm writing a new column for Roll Call, called "Fiscal Fitness" every Tuesday.

Here's the first one.

My column on nationaljournal.com, "Budget Battles," is no more. 

Starting next Tuesday, January 15, I'll be writing a new column for Roll Call, the respected Capital Hill newspaper that is must-reading for the rest of DC, called "Fiscal Fitness."  This is a great opportunity for which I am very grateful.