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Paul Ryan Previews The Path to Prosperity
March 15, 2012
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Watch House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin preview next week’s release of a budget for the federal government. Click to watch “What if your President, your Senator and your Congressman knew a crisis was coming? What if they knew why it was happening? What if they knew what they nee...
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House Budget Committee Hearing: The Department of Defense and the FY13 Budget
February 29, 2012
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Welcome all to today’s hearing to examine the President’s budget request for the Department of Defense, and to explore how the federal government can meet its highest priority: providing for the common defense and strengthening our national security. I want to begin by welcoming Leon Panetta back to...
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House Budget Committee Hearing: Strengthening Health and Retirement Security
February 28, 2012
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Welcome to today’s important hearing examining the structural challenges facing the federal government’s major health and retirement security programs. We welcome back to the Committee the two foremost experts on the financial crunch facing Medicare and Social Security: the chief actuaries of each p...
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House Budget Committee Hearing: The President’s Fiscal Year 2013 Revenue and Economic Policy Proposals
February 16, 2012
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Welcome all, to this important hearing. I’d like to thank Secretary Geithner for joining us. This is your second hearing today and your fourth this week. We know that defending this budget is no easy task, so we appreciate your time. Mr. Secretary, it’s pretty well known that one of your favorite sa...
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House Budget Committee Hearing on the President’s FY2013 Budget
February 15, 2012
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Welcome all, to this important hearing. I’d like to thank our witness today, Mr. Zients, for coming to us under difficult circumstances. With the departure of Mr. Lew from OMB just last month, we understand that you are testifying on short notice, and we recognize the difficulty of that. And unfortu...
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House Budget Committee Hearing: The State of the U.S. Economy
February 2, 2012
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Thank you, Chairman Bernanke, for coming before our Committee today to talk about the state of the economy. 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 tr...
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House Budget Committee Hearing: CBO’s Budget and Economic Outlook
February 1, 2012
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Welcome all to this important hearing on the difficult fiscal and economic challenges before us. I welcome Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf to the Budget Committee. I thank you Doug and your entire CBO staff for their hard work on the release of the annual Budget and Economic Outl...
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1,000 Days of Empty Rhetoric and Broken Promises
January 24, 2012
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We welcome the President to the House chamber tonight, where he will address the American people to assess the State of the Union. This presents another opportunity for the President to chart a new course. I hope the President takes this opportunity to stop offering empty rhetoric and broken promis...
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Mark-Up for Budget Process Reform Legislation
January 24, 2012
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The purpose of today’s meeting is to mark up legislation aimed at reforming the federal budget process. There is no question that the budget process is broken. Washington stumbles from budget crisis to budget crisis, with little to no oversight of how government spends hardworking taxpayers’ money. ...
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Mark-up for the Expedited Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2011
December 15, 2011
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The purpose of today’s meeting is to mark up the Expedited Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2011. I am proud to be here today marking up legislation that was written in a bipartisan way with my counterpart on this committee, the Ranking Member, Chris Van Hollen. Chris, I want to thank you and y...
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