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  • House GOP Budget to Target Tax Rates
    March 19, 2012 - 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... More
  • The Path to Prosperity Budget: Your Country. Your Future. Your Choice.
    March 19, 2012 - @RepPaulRyan: If you agree it’s morally wrong to ignore the most predictable crisis in U.S. history, this is your budget: Americans have a choice to make. A choice that's going to determine our country’s future. Will it be a future that looks like the America we know? One of greater opportunity, gre... More
  • Strengthening Health and Retirement Security: A Call To Action
    February 28, 2012 - 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... More
  • Associated Press: Obama's budget: Government still getting bigger
    February 13, 2012 - 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... More
  • Line-item veto would slow down Washington’s big spenders
    November 30, 2011 - 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... More
  • Tax Reform Critical For Economic Growth and Job Creation
    September 14, 2011 - This morning, House Budget Committee Chairman and Wisconsin’s First District Representative Paul Ryan released a new video – 3 Steps to Pro-Growth Tax Reform - outlining a bipartisan path forward to simplify the federal tax code and make our nation’s economy more competitive and more conducive to jo... More
  • CBO: President's ‘Framework’ Not A Serious Budget Plan
    June 23, 2011 - A recap of the stunning abdication of leadership from the President and his party’s leaders (note: it’s been 785 days since Senate Democrats passed a budget): On February 15, the President submitted his Fiscal Year 2012 budget. The disappointing proposal was roundly rejected across the political sp... More
  • Paul Ryan: To Avoid a Greece-Like Debt Crisis, Washington Needs to Spend Less, Not Tax More
    June 20, 2011 - WASHINGTON – House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan co-hosted CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning to discuss the urgent need to lift the crushing burden of debt and help spur economic growth and job creation. In the following video highlights, Chairman Ryan warns of the painful consequences of the sp... More
  • Paul Ryan: Washington's Misguided Policies Are Making Economy Worse
    June 14, 2011 - WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Representative Paul Ryan participated in CBS News’ Town Hall with Republican Leaders. The town hall aired on the CBS’ Early Show this morning and can watched in its entirety here. In addition, Chairman Ryan’s op-ed published yesterday, Obama’s Economic Experiment Has Failed ... More
  • President Obama’s Economic Policies Have Made Matters Worse
    June 12, 2011 - "President Obama inherited a difficult situation - no two ways about it – but what he’s done since then is to make matters worse, not better. The economic policies that the President has pushed through Congress into law have made this recovery harder to sustain itself – his policies are why we have... More

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