Of visits to capitol hill as he wrapped up meetings with all four party caucuses. For the first time in four years, Senate Democrats have come up with a budget outline. Some of the stories we will talk about on this friday morning, march 15. Our phone lines are open. You can also join us on our Facebook Page. You have been weighing in already. You can contact us on facebook or send us a tweet. A story from the hill newspaper focusing on the senate and its budget panel approved in the first Senate Blueprint in four years. The store is Available Online. Here are the details. Theres this editorial from the wall street journal, replacing max baucus, a look at some of the key moderate Senate Democrats on the budget issue. Senate democrats have released their first budget in four years. That editorial this morning from the wall street journal. From the new york daily news, crossfire on another issue that we focused on yesterday, the debate over guns and gun violence. This is the exchange tha
Ensure they would not accept a pay raise during the fiscal cliff. There was a pay freeze extended for this fiscal year to 2013. This would extend it through the budget window. As i mentioned earlier, there is a typo in it. Those technical corrections will be made. My point with this amendment amendment is we will be running deficits throughout the decade no matter what budget is accepted throughout the committee. If you look at the house budget, it does not balance until we get to the end of the decade. During that, we should not be taking a pay raise. Without objection, a vote. All those in favor, say aye. N. Ay. Opposed, nay. Approved. I have a terrible time with the change my husband racks around in his pockets. I cannot imagine more of it. [laughter] in light of your fervent opposition [laughter] i would withdraw my amendment because i think i would have a better chance with the banking committee. Without objection, the amendment is withdrawn. That moves us to senator portman. Are
Country. Department of labors tracking entrepreneurs. As the president was implementing his spending agenda, that agenda that took us from record high deficits of the bush administration, to record deficits three times higher in the Obama Administration. The number of new establishments, entrepreneurial activity, for the yearending march 2010 march, 2010, was lower than any other year since the series began. Since they began keeping record, mr. Speaker. In 2010 under this administrations stimulus policies, entrepreneurial activity was at the lowest level in america since we began keeping records. I dont mean at the lowest level of people succeeding. I mean the lowest level of people trying. The lowest level of people trying, mr. Speaker. What does it mean about us . What does it mean about our future when we have beaten the enthusiasm to try out of our people . Frightened it out of our people. Mr. Speaker, thats not just a department of labor report. We talk a lot about that. What is i
Want their projects to be funded through the tax code, because unlike a preparations, it is not examined every year. That is a very clever strategy and puts them in a very different class and working people who are benefited by programs that are funded every year. It is unacceptable if you come to the core concept of fairness. The actual language in the reconciliation instruction refers to the level of revenues. The explanatory instructions in the back, page 61, talks specifically about addressing this and fairness in the tax code, the spending programs that should be examined as early as any other spending program. By putting their programs in the tax code, it serves the interests of the very powerful. It does a grave injustice to the goal of building successful families across this country in successful communities. I think this amendment would be a mistake. Is there further debate . We actually do want to make average one to make sure that everybody pays their fair share. We are for