National Review9y
Cap Federal Spending, but Do It Smartly
Congress’s latest effort at fiscal restraint — the Budget Control Act of 2011 — targeted the one-third of federal spending that goes for discretionary programs. This act has helped to shrink ...
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget7dOpinion
Debt Ceiling Needs to be Raised in Advance of X Date
Recent reports from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Bipartisan Policy Center estimate that the debt ceiling, ...
The American Conservative6y
Paul Ryan Blames Defense Budget for Military Accidents
In his view, these accidents were caused by a readiness crisis that resulted from the cuts imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011. On March 22, as Congress was getting ready to vote on the $1.3 ...
csis.org2y
Defense Drawdown Working Group
Although the initial round of spending cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011 will not require a fundamental change in the nation’s defense strategy, as articulated in the 2010 Quadrennial ...
OpenSecrets.org8mon
Specific Issues Reports for S.1572 by Association of American Medical Colleges, 112th Congress
1599, Labor-HHS-Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012, Title III P.L. 112-25, Budget Control Act of 2011, Title V. Issues: Oppose elimination of graduate/professional student loan ...