Tag: Federal budget

Cleaning Up the Fiscal Mess

Panel discusses policy solutions, limitations in fighting the fiscal crisis

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Norquist, Furchtgott-Roth, Shlaes, DeMuth

A quartet of conservative panelists looked at the challenges of being the minority party in a divided government during a Saturday afternoon panel at the National Review Institute Summit titled, “The Way Out of the Fiscal Mess.”

Dems Resist Fiscal Sanity

New bill would eliminate gimmicks, improve transparency

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At a press conference at the Capitol on Wednesday, more than two dozen House and Senate Republican gathered in support of the Honest Budget Act, a bill that would eliminate a laundry list of gimmicks Congress has used for years to avoid budgetary constraints and fuel ever-increasing spending levels.