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  • CBO Report: Danger Ahead Unless America Charts New Course
    June 5, 2012 - WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued the latest update of The Long-Term Budget Outlook. This report outlines a bleak fiscal and economic future, and underscores the painful consequences for American families should policymakers fail to advance fiscally responsible... More
  • Chairman Ryan on the Clarifying Choice Offered by U.S. Senate’s Budget Failures
    May 16, 2012 - Washington – On the 1,113th day since Senate Democrats last passed a budget, the U.S. Senate considered a series of budget resolutions, none authored or supported by a single Senate Democrat. The national debt has eclipsed the size of the entire U.S. economy, yet the Democrat-controlled Senate has f... More
  • Ryan on Passage of Responsible Deficit Reduction Package
    May 10, 2012 - WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5652, the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012, a package of reforms aimed to avert across-the-board cuts to our armed forces and key priorities, reduce the deficit, and foster a better environment for job creation... More
  • Ryan Statement on Advancement of Responsible Spending Restraints and Reforms
    May 7, 2012 - Washington – Following the House Budget Committee’s successful passage of the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act and the Sequester Replacement Act, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin issued the following statement: “Both parties agree that the across-the-board sequester set... More
  • House Budget Committee Mark-Up: Reconciliation and Replacing the Sequester
    May 7, 2012 - Welcome to today’s mark-up. Today, this Committee meets to advance sensible spending restraints and to reprioritize savings called for under the Budget Control Act. Last year, as we were coming up on the debt ceiling, the Obama administration asked Congress to rubber-stamp a blank-check increase in ... More
  • Medicare: Two paths, two futures
    May 4, 2012 - President Obama and his party's leaders have suffered a string of bad weeks. Deliberations at the U.S. Supreme Court raised serious questions about whether the president's massive health care takeover could ever be compatible with our constitutional republic of limited and separated powers. The pres... More
  • Chairman Ryan: Seniors Deserve Better From President Obama
    April 23, 2012 - WASHINGTON – In response to today’s release of the Medicare and Social Security trustees’ annual report, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued the following statement: “In their latest report, the trustees of Medicare and Social Security warn that the health and retirement security of mil... More
  • Chairman Ryan Statement on the Democrat-Controlled Senate’s Embarrassing Budget Spectacle
    April 18, 2012 - WASHINGTON – In response to the Senate Budget Committee’s refusal to mark up and vote on a budget, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued the following statement: “I am disappointed to learn that Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad will not follow through on his commitment to adva... More
  • House Budget Committee Hearing: Strengthening the Safety Net
    April 17, 2012 - Before we start, I just want to note that today, millions of workers and businesses will file their taxes. I view the core mission of this committee as ensuring that every dollar the government takes from a hardworking citizen is spent as efficiently and effectively as possible, and only on programs... More
  • PAUL RYAN: PRESIDENT FAILING OUR GENERATION’S DEFINING CHALLENGE
    April 3, 2012 - Following another disappointing partisan speech by President Barack Obama, in which he tried to substitute tired political attacks for the principled leadership he refuses to offer, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin issued the following statement: “History will not be kind to a ... More