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  • 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
  • Energy and Water Appropriations
    July 14, 2009 - Following $50.8 billion provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [ARRA] of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), the fiscal year 2010 Energy and Water appropriations bill provides $33.3 billion in discretionary budget authority [BA] – an increase of $46 million (well less than 1 percent) over the s... More
  • Military Construction/Veterans Affairs Appropriations
    July 10, 2009 - The Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill (H.R. 3082) provides $128.6 billion in budget authority [BA] and 128.2 billion in outlays for fiscal year 2010. Of this amount, $77.9 billion is discretionary BA (see Table 1) and $50.7 billion is mandatory spending. The bill as repo... More
  • State-Foreign Operations Appropriations
    July 9, 2009 - The largest percentage increase among this year’s twelve regular appropriations bills will be considered by the House this week. It is the State-Foreign Operations Appropriations bill (H.R. 3081), which provides $48.8 billion in discretionary budget authority [BA] and $47.5 billion in budget year ou... More
  • Agriculture Appropriations
    July 7, 2009 - The fiscal year 2010 Agriculture Appropriations bill provides $22.9 billion in regular discretionary budget authority [BA], an amount equal to its 302(b) suballocation. This represents an increase of $2.4 billion, or 11.9 percent, over the regular 2009 enacted (scored) level, but $80 million in BA b... More
  • The Costs of 'Cap-and-Trade'
    June 26, 2009 - Hoping to advance the President’s push for a “green” 21st century economy, the House is considering legislation aimed, in part, at limiting greenhouse gas emissions by making fossil energy more expensive. It is far from clear that the measure will do much to correct the phenomenon known as “global w... More
  • Hearing: Statutory PAYGO
    June 25, 2009 - First, I want to note that I appreciate any real effort by the Administration and Congress to get a grip on our nation’s mounting fiscal crisis. But when I look at the broader budgetary context that’s developed in the first six months of this Administration, I’m afraid this PAYGO debate is little mo... More