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  • Budget Year-End Review
    December 18, 2009 - While the Senate struggles to jam through a new $1-trillion-or-so Federal health care entitlement, it is important to not lose sight of the cumulative budget impact of the President’s entire first year. The President and the Democratic-controlled Congress have undertaken a breathtaking expansion of ... More
  • Defense Appropriations: Saving the Most Important for Last
    December 16, 2009 - The most important responsibility of the Federal Government is ensuring the Nation’s security. Yet the House delayed the Defense appropriations bill until nearly 3 months after the start of the fiscal year – even as the President is sending 30,000 more troops into harm’s way. The Defense bill – the ... More
  • More 'Stimulus,' Debt, and Stopgap Spending
    December 16, 2009 - The House is expected to stagger out of town late today after jamming through a monstrous jumble of costly bills, including a third “continuing resolution,” and a $290-billion increase in the debt ceiling – to $12.4 trillion – as well as another “stimulus” bill that shovels more money onto the faile... More
  • Omnibus Appropriations: A 12-Percent Increase for Congress's Still-Unfinished Business
    December 10, 2009 - The fiscal year 2010 omnibus spending bill increases discretionary spending by a 12 percent for the six appropriations measures it binds together. In total, the legislation – H.R. 3288 – provides $447 billion in budget authority, an increase of $48 billion from fiscal year 2009. This funding include... More
  • Hearing: The Social Safety Net: Impact of the Recession and of the Recovery Act
    December 9, 2009 - Thank you Chairman Spratt. I too would like to welcome all of our witnesses… In particular, Pat Delessio from Wisconsin, who has seen the impact of thisrecession up close, and brings valuable insight on the effectiveness of the various government safety net programs. I would also like to welcome bac... More
  • TARP: A New Slush Fund for Washington
    December 8, 2009 - The President today announced his intention to tap billions of dollars in Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP] funds to justify additional economic “stimulus” spending. This is the latest version of the administration’s exploitation of TARP for purposes other than stabilizing financial markets; and... More
  • CBO: Health Care Legislation Increases the Deficit
    November 19, 2009 - The House Democrats’ health care legislation will increase the budget deficit by $89 billion over the next 10 years, and would continue increasing thereafter, according to figures released today by the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] – a finding that directly contradicts the Democrats’ claims of d... More
  • The Majority's $279-Billion 'Doc Fix' Shell Game
    November 7, 2009 - The Democrats’ tactic for bringing health care legislation to the floor is a transparent attempt to gain credit for a Medicare reimbursement increase doctors want, while hiding its $279-billion cost. They have crafted a rule that lets them have it both ways: they can claim support for the doctors’ p... More
  • The House Health Care Bill
    November 3, 2009 - The 1,990-page Democratic health care bill, expected to reach the House floor this week, suffers all the predictable failings that result from its true intent: to initiate a central government takeover of the health sector – one-sixth of the U.S. economy and one of the most valued and personal servi... More
  • Fact Sheet: The Spending, Deficit, and Debt Control Act of 2009
    November 3, 2009 - A Legally Binding Federal Budget Gives the budget the force of law by converting it from a concurrent to a joint resolution, which requires the President’s signature. Emergency reforms. Requires the President and Congress to budget for emergency spending by establishing budget reserves (“rainy day” ... More

 

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