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  • A Brief History of President Obama’s Fiscal Record
    July 15, 2011 - Despite newfound concern with the debt overhang stifling economic growth, President Obama’s record falls far short of his rhetoric. Let’s review the decisions made by President Obama and Congressional Democrats over the past couple of years, and the disappointing results of their policy choices: Jan... More
  • Senate Democrats’ Legal – And Moral – Abdication of Leadership
    July 8, 2011 - Today marks the 800th day that Senate Democrats last thought the federal government needed a budget. Senate Budget Committee Republicans put together a helpful timeline that documents this reckless budget failure. As House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Memb... More
  • A Campaign Built on a Foundation of Falsehoods & Fear
    June 1, 2011 - In a web video last week, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan made clear: “Washington has not been honest with you about Medicare.” Nonpartisan, independent fact checkers agree. The President and his party’s leaders continue to use blatant falsehoods in attacking the House Republicans’ plan to... More
  • The Path to Prosperity PRESERVES the Medicare Guarantee
    May 24, 2011 - The Path to Prosperity makes no changes to Medicare for those 55 and older, guaranteeing they will receive coverage when they become eligible. But I am younger than 55 – do your reforms mean I am no longer guaranteed Medicare? No. In fact, the opposite is true. The Path to Prosperity protects and p... More
  • The Path to Prosperity Builds on the Success of the Fiscal Commission
    April 12, 2011 - Fiscal Commission Co-Chair Erskine Bowles: President Obama’s Budget goes “nowhere near where they will have to go to resolve our fiscal nightmare” (February 14, 2011 - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/13/AR2011021302969.html) Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs Erskine Bowles and... More
  • More Spending, Taxes, and Debt
    February 15, 2011 - Having repeatedly acknowledged the gravity of the Federal Government’s fiscal outlook, the President seems to have ignored his own rhetoric: he has submitted a budget that extends a pattern of record spending, chased by ever high taxes that still fail to catch up with his ambitions. His budget makes... More
  • The President's Budget Spends, Taxes, and Borrows Too Much - Stifling Job Growth Today and Threatening our Economic Future
    February 14, 2011 - In challenging times, a chief executive must lead. But President Obama has failed to confront the fiscal and economic challenges before us. Instead, he continues down the same unsustainable path: growing the government, weakening the economy, and increasing the burden of debt on each and every Ameri... More
  • Setting the Record Straight
    January 6, 2011 - Our dispute is not with the hard-working, non-partisan professionals at the Congressional Budget Office. CBO scores what is put in front of them – and what Democrats put in front of them last year was legislation packed with smoke and mirrors to hide the impact of trillions of dollars in new spendin... More
  • Expanded Views on Fiscal Commission
    December 3, 2010 - President Obama established the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform on February 18, 2010 and appointed Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson to co-chair it. The Commission was charged with “identifying policies to improve the fiscal situation in the medium term and to achieve fiscal su... More
  • A Long-Term Plan for Medicare and Medicaid
    November 17, 2010 - Our Goal The Medicare and Medicaid programs are currently the primary drivers of upward pressure on the Federal budget. We aim to show a path to achieving the Co-Chairs’ goal of containing the growth this program to GDP +1 percent and to demonstrate that Republicans and Democrats can come together t... More

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