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  • Paul Ryan: A budget that trusts the American people
    March 29, 2012 - CLICK TO WATCH Mr. Chairman, we are bearing witness to history this week. Across the street, we are witnessing what could be the end of bureaucrat-controlled health care. What we are on the verge of witnessing is a powerful reaffirmation of the American idea. And we are finally having the debate we... More
  • House Budget Committee Votes To Advance FY2013 Path to Prosperity
    March 21, 2012 - WASHINGTON – Moments ago, the House Budget Committee advanced a Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 budget resolution that cuts government spending, repairs the safety net, and lifts the crushing burden of debt. The FY2013 budget resolution is expected to be considered on the House floor next week. Following pass... More
  • Committee Mark-Up: The Path to Prosperity – FY2013 Budget Resolution
    March 21, 2012 - Welcome to the mark up for the Fiscal Year 2013 budget resolution. I am proud to be here with my House Budget Committee colleagues today. I am proud of all the hard work you’ve done to produce the budget we’re here to discuss. I also want to thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, especi... More
  • The GOP Budget and America's Future
    March 19, 2012 - Less than a year ago, the House of Representatives passed a budget that took on our generation's greatest domestic challenge: reforming and modernizing government to prevent an explosion of debt from crippling our nation and robbing our children of their future. Absent reform, government programs de... More
  • House GOP Budget to Target Tax Rates
    March 19, 2012 - House Republicans, seizing on what they hope is a potent campaign issue in the midst of a muddled political and economic landscape, will introduce a 2013 budget Tuesday that cuts tax rates and provides for two individual brackets of 10% and 25%. The budget would end the Alternative Minimum Tax, whic... More
  • CBO Re-estimate Confirms Serious Consequences of President’s Unserious Budget
    March 16, 2012 - WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis of President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget request. CBO’s analysis estimates next year’s budget deficit would be $76 billion higher than the President claimed. In response to CBO’s analysis, House B... More
  • Paul Ryan Previews The Path to Prosperity
    March 15, 2012 - Watch House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin preview next week’s release of a budget for the federal government. Click to watch “What if your President, your Senator and your Congressman knew a crisis was coming? What if they knew why it was happening? What if they knew what they nee... More
  • Ryan: IPAB Repeal Vote An Important Step In Saving Medicare
    March 8, 2012 - WASHINGTON – House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan spoke out in support of H.R. 452, the Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2011, which passed the Ways and Means Committee earlier today. The bill repeals the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a board of 15 unelected bureaucrats giv... More
  • Government Must Refocus Its Safety Net to Those in Need
    March 5, 2012 - Late last year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a study on changes in the distribution of household income in America from 1979 to 2007. This study offered fresh insight into an intensifying debate in Washington and across America over income inequality—what causes it, how do governme... More
  • Sessions, Ryan: President Defying Law Requiring Action On Medicare
    March 1, 2012 - “The president is required by law to respond to the Medicare Trustees’ annual warning, and—as a matter of fundamental leadership—is duty-bound to do so. Meanwhile, the Democratic leaders in the Senate refuse to bring a budget plan to the floor for the third straight year. The livelihoods, savings, a... More