WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Rick Berg defended a proposed balanced budget amendment in an interview just hours before it was to be voted on by the US House. “The proposal is a clean proposal,” Berg said. “It’s the same proposal that failed by one vote in 1995 in the US Senate. Our debt has tripled [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – “We have to reduce the deficit and the debt,” said Senator John Hoeven (R – ND) in an interview today. “We are encouraging [the super committee] to bring forward a proposal that the Congress can go to work on.” Hoeven said that this Congress has already passed deficit reduction, but that the [...]
CHARLESTON, SC – “The remarkable thing of the whole debate to me was that President Obama and many of the Democrats considered the idea of balancing our budget sometime in the next decade to be an extreme and radical idea,” said Senator Jim DeMint today on the Scott Hennen Show. “That’s amazing, when you are [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – “It went on too long. We have got to find ways to start getting this stuff done in the regular order and on a day-in day-out basis,” Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) told radio host Scott Hennen this afternoon. “That is what the American people do, and that’s what they expect Congress to [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – “This plan doesn’t do enough to move us in the right direction,” said Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), who has pledged to vote “no” on the debt ceiling agreement. The House passed the agreement early Monday evening, and the Senate is scheduled to vote on it at noon (EST) on Tuesday, the very [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – Friday afternoon, while the House was scrambling to secure votes on the Budget Control Act of 2011, ND Senator John Hoeven addressed the Senate floor, calling on his colleagues to support the plan in the Senate as well. After revised CBO figures came back showing only $907 billion in savings for the [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – Up until late this afternoon, ND Congressman Rick Berg (R) had stayed silent on whether or not he would support Speaker John Boehner’s controversial Budget Control Act of 2011, saying only that he was still studying the proposal. This afternoon, Berg announced that he will be voting for the plan once it [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – “It is very frustrating out here. In North Dakota things are very honest, open, and everyone understands it,” said Congressman Rick Berg. “But out here it is really just spread the rhetoric and point the finger at someone else, rather than really diving into the problem and finding solutions.” Asked what he [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – Although a lot of politicians in Washington are talking about making significant cuts in the future, not many are putting forth any actual, concrete steps to cut spending – not in the coming decade and particularly not next year’s 2012 budget, which is the only budget year to which this Congress can [...]
GRAND FORKS, ND – A coalition of conservative political action groups have signed and sent an open letter to Republicans in Congress warning them to not support Senator Mitch McConnell’s debt ceiling fallback plan. “It’s an abdication of leadership by Mitch McConnell,” said Drew Ryun, president of American Majority Action, one of the groups signing [...]