In each case, Congressional spending outpaced the tax increase, and the deficit grew.
Over a five-year period while revenues went up 28 percent, Congressional spending went up 46 percent.
The backbench Republicans have served as the vanguard to cut Congressional spending and extinguish four select committees that do not legislate.
The leader of a group that monitors Congressional spending said the omnibus measure may represent a milestone of sorts.
Further, I believe that you seriously underestimate the amount that could be saved by eliminating unnecessary or low-priority Congressional spending.
Mr. Obey headed that committee, which presides over Congressional spending, in 1994 and 1995.
And tax cuts did not really limit Congressional spending.
Since its inception, the law has prompted banks to channel more than $1 trillion into reinvestment projects - without requiring a single dollar of Congressional spending.
A. I will not revisit it because I want - it's the only cap we have on outrageous Congressional spending.
Even so, the investor-owned hospitals worry about proposed Congressional spending cuts.