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Associated Press: Obama's budget: Government still getting bigger
February 13, 2012
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By Andrew Taylor Associated Press Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas landed with a thud...
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FACT CHECK: Jack Lew's Sunday Show Tour of Dodge & Deception
February 12, 2012
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In advance of the release of the President’s FY2013 budget request, White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew revealed a stunning deception with respect to the budget process. When asked why the Democrat-controlled Senate has failed to pass a budget for over 1,000 days, Lew – the President’s former budget...
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PAUL RYAN on ABC’s ‘This Week’: Leaders have a moral obligation to advance solutions
February 12, 2012
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin appeared on ABC’s This Week on February 12th, 2012. Below are several highlights from his interview with George Stephanopoulos: The Urgent Need to Protect the Medicare Guarantee from Bankruptcy & Board of Bureaucrats in Washington “We’re taking ...
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Senate Democrats’ 1000 Days of Debt and Disappointment
January 23, 2012
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Tomorrow will mark a sad milestone in the history of the United States Senate: the 1,000th day since Senate Democrats last offered a budget plan to the American people. Senate Democrats abandoned their official duty to prioritize Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars and tackle our nation’s most pressi...
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What Others Are Saying About the Wyden-Ryan Effort to Save and Strengthen Medicare
December 20, 2011
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Last week, Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Paul Ryan unveiled a new bipartisan plan to strengthen Medicare and offer expanded health choices to all Americans. Opinion leaders from across the political spectrum were quick to hail the plan as a breakthrough that could pave the way toward saving a...
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Capitalism and the Right to Rise
December 19, 2011
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Congressman Paul Ryan recently coined a smart phrase to describe the core concept of economic freedom: "The right to rise." Think about it. We talk about the right to free speech, the right to bear arms, the right to assembly. The right to rise doesn't seem like something we should have to protect. ...
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Lawmakers Offer Bipartisan Plan to Overhaul Medicare
December 14, 2011
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WASHINGTON — A Democratic senator, Ron Wyden of Oregon, and a Republican representative, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, unveiled a bipartisan plan on Wednesday to revamp Medicare and make a fixed federal contribution to the cost of coverage for each beneficiary. The lawmakers aim to reshape the debate o...
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Ryan, Wyden back a new Medicare option
December 14, 2011
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Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan on Thursday plan to introduce a new Medicare reform plan that would allow seniors to choose between traditional Medicare and new private insurance programs. The plan has some key differences from the Ryan blueprint that Republic...
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Line-item veto would slow down Washington’s big spenders
November 30, 2011
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Members of Congress, even with supercommittee powers, are incapable of cutting spending. With the public debt growing more and more out of control, something has to be done. So House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, joined his ranking member, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland...
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Ryan: Rather than Exploit Anxiety & Fear, Let’s Address It, Let’s Heal It.
November 3, 2011
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Earlier today, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe to advance principled, pro-growth reforms, and express disappointment at the President’s failed policies. On President Obama’s Inability to Defend His Record “Look, I think [the President] can’t run on his record bec...
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