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It's time to review Sen. Obama's thoughts on raising the debt ceiling

...veterans benefits combined...."Our debt also matters internationally. My friend, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, likes to remind us that it took 42 presidents 224 years to run up only $1 trillion of foreign-held debt...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2013-01-25/its-time-review-sen-obamas-though
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First U.S. Senate budget includes $1 trillion in new taxes

...they've already raised taxes on the richest 2 percent in the U.S.This Democrat blueprint was presented by Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray. She is a Democrat from Washington state. Murray said the plan calls for eliminating...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2013-03-17/first-us-senate-budget-includes-1
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Is U.S. on its way to becoming a welfare state?

...some form of federal welfare according to the Senate Budget Committee.Rather than recovering from the nation's deepest...from 17 million to 45 million in 2011," the Senate Budget Committee reported. "Spending on food stamps alone is...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2012-08-12/us-its-way-becoming-welfare-state
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Welfare spending up 32 percent in four years

...heels in recent years. The Senate Budget committee confirms that hunch. "The...new data released by the Senate Budget Committee," The Daily Caller reported...ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee said, "No longer should...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2012-10-18/welfare-spending-32-percent-four-
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Countrywide, government leaders scam costs taxpayers trillions

...Countrywide, a House report said, were:Former Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D. Mary Jane Collipriest, who was communications director for former Sen. Robert...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2012-07-06/countrywide-government-leaders-sc
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Budget busters

...None of the tax cuts is yet law, and the good news is that they face some resistance. Some Republicans -- Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici and Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, for example -- have indicated that...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/021600/opi_0216000003.shtml
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Budget leaves big changes for next president

...no fundamental changes in the shape or scope of government. ''We're in a presidential election,'' said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M., the plan's chief author. ''And somebody next year, a new president...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/040800/nne_0408000038.shtml
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Spending, tax fight revs up as Congress OKs budget

...spending bills. Republicans were equally scornful of the Democratic approach. The GOP favors tax cuts, said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M., because ''If we don't do it pretty soon, there will be no surplus...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/041400/nne_0414000006.shtml
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Huge budget surplus predicted by nonpartisan CBO

...the extra billions he wants for schools, foreign aid and other programs. Hoping to head off a spending spree, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M., told reporters that lawmakers ''ought not do any damage this year...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/071800/nne_0718000029.shtml
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Massive budget package approved

...spending package meant that the 13 annual spending bills would spend a record $634.5 billion, according to Senate Budget Committee estimates. That would be about $48 billion higher than last year, $11 billion more than Clinton requested...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/121600/gov_1216000010.shtml
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