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House GOP Budget to Target Tax Rates
March 19, 2012
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House Republicans, seizing on what they hope is a potent campaign issue in the midst of a muddled political and economic landscape, will introduce a 2013 budget Tuesday that cuts tax rates and provides for two individual brackets of 10% and 25%. The budget would end the Alternative Minimum Tax, whic...
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Strengthening Health and Retirement Security: A Call To Action
February 28, 2012
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The House Budget Committee held a hearing today on the critical need to save and strengthen Medicare and Social Security. In revealing testimony, Richard Foster, Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Stephen Goss, Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration, pr...
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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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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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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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ObamaCare Starts to Unravel
October 17, 2011
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Now that one of ObamaCare's major new benefit programs has been scrapped, liberals are trying to make stone soup by claiming that the Obama Administration merely committed an act of "good government." They claim that when this long-term care insurance program proved to be unworkable, the Administrat...
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House Budget Committee Hearing Highlights
Medicare & Social Security: The Fiscal Facts
July 13, 2011
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The House Budget Committee held a hearing today exploring the sustainability of America’s critical health and retirement security programs – Medicare and Social Security. In testimony before the Committee, the two programs’ Chief Actuaries, Richard Foster and Stephen Goss, underscored the threat po...
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