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  • Actions Speak Louder Than Words
    July 15, 2011 - While President Obama has recently professed a newfound – and vague – desire to cut government spending, it’s useful to recall what the President has actually done since taking office in 2009. The President signed into law a massive spending spree that plunged us deeper into debt, and failed to deli... 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
  • The Debt Overhang and the U.S. Jobs Malaise
    July 7, 2011 - Nothing is more critical to today’s economy than restoring real job and business growth. Yet for almost three years, the U.S. economy has remained mired in a slow-growth, high-unemployment trap. The so-called “recovery” feels more like a malaise than a rebound. The incoming data in recent weeks pain... More
  • Deficits and Baselines: The President’s Budget and The Republican Budget
    May 24, 2011 - Since last December, when the President’s Fiscal Commission proposed roughly $4 trillion in deficit reduction, the figure has become a kind of de facto standard for measuring subsequent budgets; and in the past several months, House Republicans and the President have introduced fiscal plans that cla... 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
  • Fact Sheet: Interim Spending and Revenue Committee Allocations and Budget Aggregates
    February 11, 2011 - Pursuant to House Rules H.Res. 5 and H. Res. 38, the Budget Committee Chairman will file today interim committee allocations and budget aggregates to set levels for budget authority (BA), outlays and revenues for FY 2011 and for the 5-year period covering FY 2011 – FY 2015. As previously announced,... More
  • The Democrats’ Spending Spree
    February 3, 2011 - Since he took office in January of 2009, President Obama has signed into law a massive spending spree that not only failed to deliver on its promise to create jobs, but also plunged us deeper into debt. The onslaught of new spending was primarily focused on special-interest spending for domestic gov... More
  • Fact Sheet: The Fiscal Year 2011 Discretionary Spending Allocation to the Appropriations Committee
    February 3, 2011 - Pursuant to House Rules H.Res. 5 and spending reduction resolution H.Res. 38, the Budget Committee Chairman will file an allocation to set 2011 discretionary budget authority (BA) at $1,055 billion, which will produce savings of $74 billion compared to the President’s request.. Non-security discret... More

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