Lunch With Heritage: Online Chat on the Obama and Paul Ryan (R-WI) Budgets
With his speech Wednesday, President Obama unveiled his plans for the FY 2012 budget that is loaded with more spending and tax increases. A few weeks ago, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled his Path to...
View ArticleMorning Bell: A Budget to Save the American Dream
America’s fiscal condition is dauntingly dismal. The national debt is well on its way to $17 trillion, 13 million Americans are out of work, and the country is stuck in the slowest recovery in the...
View ArticleFirst Reactions to Ryan’s Path to Prosperity Budget
There are six key elements to a successful federal government budget, including the plan released today by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R—WI): Does it cut spending sharply and quickly?...
View ArticleRyan’s Budget Proposal: A Down Payment on the Common Defense
The defense commitments in Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) budget proposal, “The Path to Prosperity: Restoring America’s Promise,” are a step in the right direction. The budget makes a down payment on the...
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Morning Bell: Another Vision to Solve the Budget Crisis
While Washington’s eyes are focused on the historic Obamacare hearings at the Supreme Court, work continues across the street in the House of Representatives where some Members of Congress — though not...
View ArticleRyan’s Budget Protects Defense
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Edwin J. Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, and William Kristol, a director of the Foreign...
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The Ryan Plan Prioritizes National Security
When Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) released the House Republican budget earlier this week, one thing was certain: It takes seriously the constitutional responsibility to provide for the common...
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So, Where Is the President’s Solution to the Fiscal Crisis?
If President Obama wants to challenge the House Republican budget passed last week, he certainly should. His views would be more enlightening, however, if they actually said something substantial,...
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President Obama’s Curious Paul Ryan Speech
Why would the President, elected to the highest office in the land, stoop to attack a plan authored by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan (R–WI)? It’s a budget whose individual...
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Morning Bell: The President’s Curious Speech Lacks Solutions
If you’re looking for an iron-clad indictment of Barack Obama’s failed fiscal policies, you don’t have to look much farther than the President’s own words in a speech he delivered yesterday at the...
View ArticleWill Debt Ceiling Baby Step Lead Toward a Balanced Budget?
The debt ceiling is bearing down on Washington. As with most such momentous occasions, plenty of partisan potshots have been exchanged, like this whopper from the White House: that House Republicans...
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Cloakroom: Battle of the Budgets, Round 1
House Cloakroom: March 11 – March 15 Analysis: This week House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will release his 2014 budget resolution for markup in committee. The Ryan budget is expected offer a...
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House vs. Senate Budget: What a Balanced Budget Looks Like (CHART)
This week, the budget committees of both chambers of Congress released their budgets ahead of President Obama’s budget—marking the first time in 92 years that Congress kicked off the budget process...
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Federal Pay and the Ryan Budget: Brazen Falsehoods from a Federal Employee Union
Newscom Congressman Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) budget outline calls for federal employees to contribute more to their pensions, but the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is none too happy...
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Morning Bell: A Stark Choice for America’s Budget
For the first time in four years, the U.S. Congress is engaged in a full-throated budget debate. Take a moment for at least a quiet “Hurrah!” The federal government has at last embarked on its most...
View ArticleThe RSC Budget: A First Look
The Republican Study Committee (RSC) has proposed a budget that balances in just four years while holding tax revenue at near its historical average. It advances more aggressive entitlement reforms...
View ArticleWhat Is Vote-a-Rama? Watch Our Google+ Hangout at Noon ET Today
Why does President Obama have time to release his final four picks for the NCAA basketball tournament, but can’t meet the federal budget deadline? For the past two weeks in Washington, Representative...
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Debt Limit and Tax Reform: Both Important, But On Their Own
Newscom Press reports link the coming debt limit debate with the building effort for tax reform. The debt limit and tax reform are both important, but the connection ends there, as it should....
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Morning Bell: Ready for Another Debt Limit Fight?
Yes, it’s time to talk about the debt limit again. Every time the U.S. bumps up against its debt ceiling, we start the cycle all over again. President Obama insists he won’t negotiate over the debt...
View ArticleBudgets, Abortion, and Obamacare: 9 Things House Conservatives Said Today
The Murray-Ryan budget surfaced Tuesday night, and led the conversation between House conservatives this morning at The Foundry’s Conversations With Conservatives. Missed the event? We’ve compiled an...
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