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  • CBO Offers Latest Warning on Alarming Budget Deficit and Painful Jobs Deficit
    August 24, 2011 - WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] updated its annual Budget and Economic Outlook. CBO projects the federal government's budget deficit to exceed $1 trillion for the third year in a row. Falling far short of the President's promises, the unemployment rate is expected t... More
  • Ryan Praises Speaker Boehner's Joint Select Committee Choices
    August 10, 2011 - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan made the following statement today praising Speaker John Boehner's choices for the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction and explaining why he asked not to be among them: “The Speaker has chosen three excellent Republican members to serve on this Joint... More
  • Ryan Statement on Passage of Budget Control Act
    August 1, 2011 - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued the following statement after the Budget Control Act of 2011 passed the House of Representatives: “The Budget Control Act represents a victory for those committed to controlling government spending and growing our economy. I applaud Speaker Boehner’s... More
  • Ryan Statement on Cut, Cap and Balance
    July 19, 2011 - Washington – House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued the following statement after H.R. 2560, the Cut, Cap and Balance Act of 2011 passed the House of Representatives. “The House of Representatives continues to advance serious solutions to get our budget on the path to balance and our econ... More
  • Washington’s Borrowing Binge Stifles Job Growth Today
    July 7, 2011 - The House Budget Committee released an economic report today demonstrating that economic hardships have been made worse by Washington’s misguided interventions and the lack of a credible a plan to lift the crushing debt burden. As national unemployment lingers at 9%, Washington’s spending spree has ... More
  • Sessions and Ryan: Obama Administration Ignores Looming Medicare Bankrupcty
    June 27, 2011 - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration continues to overlook its legal obligation to address Medicare’s growing fiscal imbalance. Instead of offering constructive solutions to avert a looming crisis, the President’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, published a new opinion pi... More
  • CBO: Debt to Overtake Entire Economy
    June 22, 2011 - WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] released a report on the fiscal future of the federal budget. In its latest update of The Long-Term Budget Outlook, the CBO provides an overview of the looming debt crisis, the prospect of which is hindering economic recovery and job... More
  • Sessions & Ryan Demand President Uphold Obligation To Law And To Seniors
    June 14, 2011 - WASHINGTON—Earlier today, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, sent a letter to President Obama following his Administration’s failure to submit a proposal, as required by law, to ad... More
  • Paul Ryan Challenges Senate Democrats' "Abdication of Leadership"
    May 25, 2011 - Washington – House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued the following statement in response to the Senate Democrats’ refusal to put forward any plan to meet our nation’s greatest fiscal and economic challenges: “I thank Senate Majority Leader Reid for drawing attention to the bipartisan, unani... More
  • The Facts on Medicare and How to Save It
    May 25, 2011 - The House Budget Committee released a video today explaining the real danger our growing debt poses to Medicare, and advancing a plan of action to save this critical health-security program. Watch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJIC7kEq6kw Chairman Paul Ryan, who appears in the video, issued... More

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