Senate Renews Key Budget Enforcement Mechanisms

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 16, 2002 Contact: Stu Nagurka (202) 224-7436 Steve Posner (202) 224-7925 SENATE RENEWS KEY BUDGET ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS Washington, DC – The Senate today, by unanimous consent, renewed key budget enforcement mechanisms that expired on September 30. The enforcement mechanisms help to maintain fiscal discipline by making it much more difficult to […]

Budget Committee Releases New Deficit Estimates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 22, 2002 Contact: Steve Posner (202) 224-7925 SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE RELEASES NEW ESTIMATES SHOWING FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICITS WILL BE FAR WORSE THAN ‘ROSY’ PROJECTIONS OF BUSH ADMINISTRATION Washington, DC – The Senate Budget Committee today released new estimates showing that the level of federal budget deficits over the next ten years […]