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 [...]
FARGO, ND – “I feel good about this because it sets the framework under some real key principles,” said Congressman Rick Berg, “but the most important thing to me is that we are going to have a vote on a balanced budget amendment in the House and the Senate in the next three months, and [...]
BISMARCK, ND – “One of the fallacies of Keynesian economic policy policies is assumes that people will be responsible,” commented Eugene Graner, “responsible like people like Senator Kent Conrad, who is Chairman of the powerful Senate Budget Committee, but cannot produce a budget for 823 days now to even run the country.” Graner, President of [...]
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 – “It makes that we are actually accomplishing something. If we sat back and voted ‘No’ on everything, we certainly wouldn’t get any further towards spending cuts and getting our fiscal house in order,” said South Dakota Congresswoman Kristi Noem (R). Echoing Republican Deputy Whip Kevin Brady (R-TX), Noem told radio host Scott [...]
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 – “Absent some sort of structural reform that really gets to the heart of the matter [the nation's deficit], Heritage Action is not going to support any debt ceiling increase, and unfortunately, Speaker Boehner’s proposal is insufficient,” shared Dan Holler of Heritage Action in an interview on the Scott Hennen Show today. In [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – North Dakota’s Congressman Rick Berg said today that he continues to support the cut, cap and balance plan which he co-sponsored, and he will be reviewing both Boehner’s and Reid’s plans in closer detail today. “We need a plan that makes significant spending cuts and reforms and works to balance the budget,” [...]