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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

After that the Bush administration and a Republican-majority Congress decided in 2001 to effectively set paygo aside. Then there's the Byrd rule , a measure first proposed by Senator Robert Byrd in 1985 that was intended to stem a growing tendency to put everything through reconciliation. And there's the Budget Control Act of 2011.