Republicans take a $100 billion whack at Obama budget
Posted by reteaparty Finance Saturday, February 12th, 2011
By Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor In a move that has “tea party” written all over it, Republicans in the House of Representative propose to cut spending for the rest of this fiscal year by what they claim is “the largest single discretionary spending reduction in the history of Congress.” Will it pass? That’s unlikely, [...]
Republican Leaders Yield to a Push for More Budget Cuts
Posted by reteaparty Finance Friday, February 11th, 2011
By CARL HULSE, The New York Times WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders said Thursday that they would accede to demands from conservatives and dig deeper into the federal budget for billions of dollars in additional savings this year, exhibiting the power of the Tea Party movement and increasing chances of a major fiscal clash with [...]
Posted by reteaparty Finance Saturday, February 5th, 2011
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, The New York Times In the villages, towns and cities of the 19th Congressional District north of New York City, the signs of federal largess are all over: money for a library in South Salem, road improvements in Peekskill, renovations on an aging bridge in Dover and a communications network for the [...]