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  • 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
  • Budget Boondoggle Award
    The Train to Nowhere
    June 15, 2011 - Prompted by an influx of Federal “stimulus” funds, the State of California has committed to match Washington’s cash and spend $5.5 billion for an initial high-speed rail segment joining two towns in the sparsely populated Central Valley region – despite major uncertainties about the line’s viability... More
  • A Campaign Built on a Foundation of Falsehoods & Fear
    June 1, 2011 - In a web video last week, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan made clear: “Washington has not been honest with you about Medicare.” Nonpartisan, independent fact checkers agree. The President and his party’s leaders continue to use blatant falsehoods in attacking the House Republicans’ plan to... 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 PRESERVES the Medicare Guarantee
    May 24, 2011 - The Path to Prosperity makes no changes to Medicare for those 55 and older, guaranteeing they will receive coverage when they become eligible. But I am younger than 55 – do your reforms mean I am no longer guaranteed Medicare? No. In fact, the opposite is true. The Path to Prosperity protects and p... 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

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