Budget and Fiscal Responsibility
Congress must come together with a bipartisan effort to find a long-term budget solution that reduces our deficit and grows our economy. This means taking a balanced approach to craft a responsible plan that cuts wasteful spending and invests in the programs that help working families, create jobs and put our economy back on the right track. A long term budget must protect the promise of Social Security and Medicare, and encourage innovation and job creation.
Businesses and working families need policies that provide them with the clarity they need to plan and invest for the future. It’s time to stop budgeting 90 days at a time or stumbling from one fiscal crisis to the next.
We must focus on making smart, targeted investments that will create jobs and help working families have the opportunity to succeed. By prioritizing investments in education, basic research and infrastructure, we will make our nation a magnet for innovation and good jobs.
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WASHINGTON, DC –Congresswoman Suzan DelBene issued the following statement regarding today’s vote on the House Republican budget:
“To get our economy back on track and help Washington’s families and businesses, we need to find responsible, bipartisan solutions to our nation’s fiscal issues. Unfortunately, the Ryan Republican budget passed by the House today was neither responsible nor bipartisan.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the US House of Representatives passed by a vote of 221-201 legislation to extend the nation’s borrowing authority for one year, through March 15, 2015. The measure will allow the government to fully finance government operations until that time, averting an economic catastrophe that many economists predicted if the debt ceiling limit was not raised. Congresswoman Suzan DelBene voted to support the bill and issued the following statement today:
EVERETT — The 500 low-income Snohomish County families who received notices last month about federal rent subsidies running out are off the hook — for 2014, at least.
The Housing Authority of Snohomish County on Monday mailed a second letter informing those households that their Section 8 vouchers will last through year’s end.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Suzan DelBene released the following statement reacting to the President’s 2014 State of the Union address to the nation:
“One of the greatest challenges facing us as a nation is how we grow our economy, create jobs and expand opportunity for all. This evening, the President made a strong case for policies that will help us build the foundation for long-term economic growth.
WASHINGTON, DC – The House of Representatives today passed an omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2014 by a vote of 359-67. The bill meets the terms set by the Murray-Ryan budget agreement, providing $1.012 trillion for the operation of the federal government and avoiding a government shutdown. After her vote in support of the omnibus appropriations bill, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House of Representatives voted to pass a bipartisan two-year budget agreement that helps avoid another unnecessary government shutdown in January, provides sequester relief to domestic and defense spending and reduces the deficit. Rep. DelBene has long called for Congress to enact a common-sense, long-term budget that provides families and businesses certainty, and following her vote in support of this budget agreement, DelBene issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congress today voted to reopen the government and avoid a default on the nation’s debt. Congresswoman Suzan DelBene issued the following statement:
“Thanks to a bipartisan vote that should have been allowed weeks ago, Congress is finally reopening the government and averting what could have been a disastrous default on our nation’s debt.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Suzan DelBene today announced that she signed a discharge petition to re-open the government. This discharge petition allows a majority of members to bypass House leadership and force an up or down vote on a clean continuing resolution, providing funding through November 15 at a compromise level. DelBene today issued the following statement:
“The shutdown has been harmful to our nation’s economy, affecting businesses, working families, seniors, veterans and hundreds of thousands of federal employees.
DARRINGTON -- Owners of a Darrington river-rafting business find themselves beached until the federal government is motoring at full throttle again.
Brian Pernick and his sister, Sarah, were in the process of obtaining a new use permit from the U.S. Forest Service to provide whitewater rafting and scenic float trips on the Sauk River.
But the agency shuttered its doors Oct. 1 when the partial shutdown of government began, leaving the owners of Adventure Cascades high and dry.
WASHINGTON—Washington state’s six House Democrats have joined 194 of their colleagues to call on House Speaker John Boehner to end the Republican-led shutdown by allowing an up-or-down vote on a clean budget bill that would open the government immediately.