• 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

• 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

• 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

• Republican freshman: Obama budget is a 'joke' February 14, 2011 - Some Republicans are playing President Barack Obama’s budget as an opportunity missed. The GOP freshmen — sent to Washington to shake things up — are putting it a little more bluntly. “Let me see if I can say this as politically correctly as I can,” Mick Mulvaney, a freshman from South Carolina who ... More

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