Word: fiscal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dreamed of the day when the procedure would never have to be performed, the approach appealed to centrists. But it inspired pro-choice champions to argue that such rhetoric makes women feel guilty and plays into the hands of the right. Just as arguments rage within the right between fiscal and social conservatives and between libertarians and virtuecrats, the left has its own internal wars...
...will need a policy to prevent a fiscal meltdown as the baby boomers retire. The hard truth is that we will need to raise taxes and substantially scale back entitlement benefits (while also restricting discretionary spending). The candidates offer lip service without acknowledging that major sacrifices will be necessary. That is the real courage deficit...
...those bills, Congress plans to appropriate about $22 billion more than the $933 billion that Bush submitted in his budget for fiscal year 2008 (itself a $60 billion increase over FY 2007). That $22 billion overage - a mere 2.4% of the President's proposed budget - is the basis on which the President and his advisors plan their vetoes. Furthermore, says James Horney, director of federal fiscal policy at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, the number in dispute is actually closer to $5 billion, since Bush's budget request cuts over $16 billion from current domestic programs. "Clearly, from...
...years (none of them on spending bills), makes his threats even more serious. Hoyer pointed to a letter signed by 147 House Republicans as of June 13 vowing to sustain the President's veto as evidence of a concerted party effort to re-cloak themselves with the mantle of fiscal responsibility. "They signed that letter without even knowing what the numbers in the final bills are going to look like," Hoyer said. "It's demagoguery...
...going to run the risk of facing a veto, and our numbers demonstrate that we have the ability and intention of sustaining that veto." That bravado, however, is also coupled with the begrudging realization that Republicans lost their majority last fall because of the perception that they were fiscally irresponsible. "The Republican leader has said any number of times that we need to earn our way back into the majority," Kennedy said. "Part of that process is making sure that we polish our credentials on fiscal discipline...