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  • New Programs, More Spending in Student Aid 'Deficit Reduction' Bill
    July 30, 2009 - SUMMARY On the same day the Federal Reserve Chairman was warning Congress about Federal spending and deficits, the Education and Labor Committee reported legislation that: Nationalizes all Federal student loans. Creates ten new entitlement programs. Expands Washington’s role in education. Distorts t... More
  • Defense Appropriations
    July 28, 2009 - The Defense appropriations bill – the twelfth and final House appropriations measure to be brought to the floor – provides $636.3 billion in discretionary budget authority [BA] primarily to the Department of Defense [DoD], including $128.3 billion to support “overseas contingency operations” in Iraq... More
  • Hiding the Cost of the 'Doc Fix'
    July 24, 2009 - Faced with a Congressional Budget Office [CBO] cost estimate showing a $239-billion deficit increase in their health care bill, the Democratic Majority appears to be trying to make their problem disappear. The discussion below explains the maneuvers the Majority is likely to attempt to get that resu... More
  • Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations
    July 24, 2009 - The fiscal year 2010 appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies provides $715 billion in total budget authority [BA] and $775 billion in outlays. This includes $163 billion in new discretionary BA and $219 billion in budget year o... More
  • Transportation and HUD Appropriations (H.R. 3288)
    July 23, 2009 - A day after rejecting the use of caps to control discretionary spending, the House Majority is bringing to the floor a 25-percent increase for the fiscal year 2010 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development [THUD] appropriations bill (H.R. 3288). The bill provides $68.9 billion in discretionary b... More
  • Republican Pay-Go Substitute
    July 22, 2009 - The Republican substitute to the Democrats’ pay-as-you-go [pay-go] bill focuses on the fundamental problem with the budget: spending and deficits. It ensures that Federal spending cannot grow faster than the economy; it establishes a cap on discretionary spending, rather than exempting it as the Dem... More
  • The Democratic Pay-Go Legislation
    July 22, 2009 - SUMMARY The Democrats’ pay-as-you-go [pay-go] bill is an attempt to appear fiscally responsible while they push through an explosion of spending, deficits, and debt. But the bill and the process are deeply flawed. Specifically: It is a needlessly complex rewrite of pay-go, not a simple extension. It... More
  • The House 'Tri-Comm' Bill: An Update
    July 20, 2009 - The updated cost estimate for the Majority’s health care “reform” only clarifies what previous analyses had shown: the proposal creates a new trillion-dollar Federal health entitlement, initiates a takeover of the health care sector, and offers nothing to moderate the “cost curve” that is making hea... More
  • The House 'Tri-Comm' Bill
    July 16, 2009 - Even without a complete cost estimate, the House Ways and Means Committee today plowed ahead with its plan to create a huge new health care entitlement and initiate the government takeover of the health care sector. The bill was developed by three committees that have jurisdiction over health care i... More
  • Finacial Services and General Government Appropriations
    July 15, 2009 - The fiscal year 2010 appropriations bill for Financial Services and General Government (H.R. 3170) provides an increase of 6.4 percent in budget authority [BA] over the regular enacted 2009 level as scored. Its $24.2 billion in discretionary BA is $1.5 billion over 2009, but $78 million less than th... More

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