Murray and Ryan Propose Commission to Promote Evidence-Based Policymaking
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D., Wash.) and U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.) announced the Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act of 2014. The bill would establish a 15-member commission to study how best to expand the use of data to evaluate the effectiveness of […]
Sessions Lays Out Financial Agenda For New GOP Majority In Address To Coolidge Foundation Budget Conference
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following keynote address today at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation’s national budget conference. Sessions emphasized the need to balance the federal budget within 10 years, impose financial discipline on federal agencies, and improve economic conditions for American workers: “I would like […]
Murray Statement on Providing Budget Certainty Through an Omnibus Spending Bill in December
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on providing budget certainty in December: “My Republican colleagues often say they don’t want to kick the can down the road when it comes to the budget—but that’s exactly what a stopgap spending bill this December would mean,” said Senator […]
Health Policy Experts Agree With SBC Analysis Of CBO Data: Obamacare Makes Deficits Worse
“It seems relatively safe to say that Obamacare — which Democrats passed over unanimous Republican opposition with just three votes to spare in the House and without a single vote to spare in the Senate — wouldn’t have passed had it been scored as a deficit bill.”
Highlights Of Waste And Abuse In The Obama Administration
In advance of President Obama unveiling his FY 2015 budget earlier this year, senior White House staff signaled to the Washington Post that the plan would “call for an end to era of austerity.” This despite the fact that the nation has spent $21.1 trillion since 2009. Gross federal debt has increased by $7.23 trillion […]
Obamacare’s Five Biggest Broken Promises
CBO estimates Obamacare will produce a dramatic reduction in the number of hours worked by Americans as well as the size of the overall labor force, the equivalent of 2.5 million fewer Americans working full-time as a result of the law.
Analysis Of CBO Data Shows That Obamacare Will Increase Deficit Over Next Decade
Altogether, the SBC Republican staff analysis finds that after taking significant changes since 2012 into account, the Democrats’ health care law will increase the budget deficit by $131 billion over the current 10-year budget window (FY 2015–2024)
Murray Statement on Congressional Budget Office’s Monthly Budget Review
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Today, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on the Congressional Budget Office’s Monthly Budget Review for September 2014: “Today’s announcement from the Congressional Budget Office on the deficit for fiscal year 2014 offers more evidence that our fiscal outlook has continued to improve, with deficits falling by two-thirds in the last […]
Sessions: 12 Million More Americans Outside Workforce Today Than In 2009
“Three-fourths of Americans say we remain in a recession—and there are sound reasons for such personal beliefs. Declines in wages and the percentage of people actually working have been hammer blows to working families.” WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today as the Bureau of […]
The Obama Economy: A Chart Book
The great economic tragedy of our time is the erosion of the American middle class. Millions of Americans find themselves locked out of the American Dream. Their wages are either flat or falling, even as the price of energy and goods surges; the labor force is shrinking; and the government stimulus which was claimed to […]