• Paul Ryan Sets the Record Straight April 20, 2011 - Two months ago, the President introduced an unserious budget that locks in Washington's spending spree, adds $13 trillion to the debt over the next decade, and accelerates our nation toward a fiscal crisis. His budget imposes $1.5 trillion in tax increases on job creators and American families, stif... More

• The Other Medicare Cutters April 20, 2011 - The debate over Paul Ryan's Medicare reform ideas has largely been healthy, even amid the liberal distortions. But why has there been so little scrutiny of President Obama's new Medicare proposal? Anyone worrying about more individual choice and responsibility in health care might be interested to l... More

• Paul Ryan and His Critics April 12, 2011 - One point of a document as subversive as Paul Ryan's 2012 budget is to provoke debate, and has it ever. But amid the thoughtful musings about starving orphans and grandma in a snowbank, could his critics at least get their facts right? Let's unpack the distortions. -Deficits and debt. Perhaps the mo... More

• The GOP Path To Prosperity April 5, 2011 - Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spend on less than one-fifth of the federal budget for the next six months. Whether we cut $33 billion or $61 billion—that is, whether we shave 2% or 4% off of this year's deficit—is important. It's a sign that the election did in f... More

• Behind the Scenes: Budget Listening Session with Paul Ryan March 18, 2011 - Washington (CNN) -- In a small conference room deep inside the Capitol, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan could be mistaken for a traveling salesman at a business meeting. Using a PowerPoint presentation with alarming charts and frightening graphs, the Wisconsin Republican is trying to sell the need ... More

• Ryan: No More Empty Promises March 16, 2011 - In a particularly painful-to-watch moment from The Office, Michael Scott (the hopelessly inept boss played by Steve Carell) must tell an entire class of graduating high-school seniors that he will not be able pay their college tuition — having publicly pledged to do so years earlier in a quixotic fi... More

• Robbing the future February 16, 2011 - The message the American people continue to receive from President Obama and the Democrats is that more spending, taxing and borrowing are the only ways to grow our economy and create jobs. Yet after two years, our country still suffers with historic unemployment and the highest debt in U.S. history... More

• A lesson in "math and economics" from Secretary Geithner February 16, 2011 - At the House Budget Committee, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was pressed on President Obama’s claim that a budget that adds $13 trillion to the debt “will not be adding more to the national debt.” House Budget Committee freshman Rep. Reid Ribble asked a simple question of the Treasury Secretary: D... More

• Budget Committee Hearing Highlights January 26, 2011 - House Budget Committee Witnesses Testify on the Law’s True Budgetary Impact WASHINGTON – The House Budget Committee held a hearing today on the fiscal impact of the Democrats’ new health care law. Key witnesses, including the Obama Administration’s own non-partisan actuary for Medicare, testified th... More

• ObamaCare's Reality Deficit January 7, 2011 - Of all the claims deployed in favor of ObamaCare, and there are many, the most preposterous is that a new open-ended entitlement will somehow reduce the budget deficit. Insure 32 million more people, and save money too! The even more remarkable spectacle is that Washington seems to be taking this cl... More

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